Section N
From 911answers
Investigations
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- N.1. The 9/11 Commission
- N.1.100. President Bush initially refused to allow for an independant investigation. The National Commission created to investigate was only created by family members of those who died pushing for it. Pres Bush only testified off the record and with VP Cheney by his side and many documents were not handed over due to executive privilege.
- N.1.101 Pres. Clinton's NSA (National Security Advisor) Sandy Berger pled guilty to unauthorized removal and retention of classified material. He took five copies of an after-action report -- one during his September 2003 visit to the Archives and four during his October 2003 trip. He admitted to officials that he then used scissors to cut up three copies that night while at his office. At first he had said he had either misplaced or unintentionally thrown them away. He was reviewing the documents at the request of Pres. Clinton and in preparation for the 9/11 commission.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/01/berger.plea/index.html
- N.1.102 Able Dander, an army intelligence unit, may have identified Mohammed Atta through open source intelligence. There was no mention of this in the 9/11 report. Army lawyers refused the identifacation from being passed on the FBI because the US Army is not allowed to act inside the US where Mohammed Atta was located. No documentation has been produced from the Army showing any of this actually happaned.
- N.2. National Institute of Standards and Technology
- N.3. Federal Emergency Management Agency
- N.4. Journalistic Investigations
- N.4.1.100. The senior researcher on Popular Mechanics' 9/11 debunking piece is a distant cousin of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff
- N.5. Accountability
- N.5.1.100. The various responsible agencies - NORAD, FAA, Pentagon, USAF, as well as the 9/11 Commission - gave radically different explanations for the failure (in some cases upheld for years), such that several officials must have lied; but none were held accountable.
