The 9/11 Commission Report: The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (Authorized Edition)

We all seek the truth

Just like the Warren Commission Report, the 9/11 Commission Report is one of the biggest lies ever told to us Americans. This books makes interesting reading in my position as a investigative journalist, I read it from beginning to end. I'd like to thank my colleague David R. Griffin for writing down his comments on this report. I hope he's safe and well -- in the movie JFK, Mr. X, a character played by Donald Sutherland, we hear, 'Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.' I'm one of them, and this has brought me to the point where I found myself unable to work under my real name (Monica de Bruyn), and forced to continue my business under my middle name and husband's name. We all seek for the truth most Americans have watched the Inside 9/11 series on National Geographic. We have a new Oliver Stone movie coming up: World Trade Center. Will this change the American people's view on this book? Mark my words: it will.

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Lies

9/11 Was an inside job wake up people. The taliban held a press conference 10 days after 9/11 and said they are ready for the trial for usama bin laden if the united can provide evidence. And guess what we didnt because their is none. Look it up it was on CNN. 9/11 Isnt even mentioned on his FBI poster Wake up

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Absolutely no complaint on the product itself, but...

Exactly what I had ordered and was expecting.
Unfortunately, always consider the latest date of delivery: when they say, between 8 and 14 days for delivery, it means 14 days.
In other words, it came very late.

Good read. Interesting. Doesn't go into any unexplained issues

I've seen other reports on 9/11 and this report goes mostly into how the terrorism happened, the profile of the terrorists. This book does not address things like: missing plane parts from the pentagon, firefighters talking about hearing explosions, strange unexplained plane characteristics, or even flashes from the plane right before entry into the building etc. etc.

So don't expect the dissolution of conspiracies.

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9/11 Commission finds fault, but displays impotence in casting blame

This is an excellent report by the 9/11 Commission. They point out all the problems that occurred and the lack of preparedness of the United States. However, they do not cast the direct blame to Bush and his faction, rather they illuminate the systemic problems of all agencies involved. Therefore, the Commission proves that this attack was allowed to come to its fruition, because of every government agency's quantum incompetence.

its a good read that will make you wish they had investigated futher and better

Ok no mater how you feel about sept11 (if it was a conspiracy of united porportions or just a conspiracy from al-Queda) you should read very carefuly the things that the 911 report suggests in order to keep our country safe it would alow the government to rob us all of our basic liberties and what makes America Great. The Comission is used when ever the current administration trys to fight for the patriot act and they say we need this because it potects us. Read the comission and always think what will us changing this to make things safer do in the long run. Beacuse when you give them a little they will take a lot and it wont stop. Social Security was sopossed to be a temporary solution also and look how long its been running. Maybe if we as a society stop being afraid of atacks and accept them just as we accept drive bys and gang style shootings maybe then the terror atacks will stop because we wont be afraid of them how many people do we see die on the news every night with out a seconds thought yet we will do anything within our power no mater what we loose in the process to make sure no one can attack us from abroad. Why is that?

Disapointing

No mention of the fact that Mr. Bush and Mr. Chany had to have a private-no notes-off the record meeting with the 911 Comission. No accountability found in this book.

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Must Read for All

It comes down to this: no matter what your political persuasion, every American should read this. This report lays out in minute detail the failings of two administrations in keeping America safe. In addition, it gives us an opportunity to make sure it never happens again, at least make it as difficult as possible. This is not a Republican issue or a Democrat issue, it's an AMERICAN issue. If we bury our heads in the sand or close our minds because of partisanship, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. Do we really want to lose another 3,000+ innocents?

A must read for all Americans planning to vote in the November election

This is a heart wrenching book that opens our eyes to the events that led up to 9/11. I was speechless after reading that between Jan 20 and Sep 10th 2001, President Bush received 40 different daily briefings reguarding Bin Ladin and the evidence that he was planning to attack Americans. Yet, on the evening of September 12th, Bush says 'see if Saddam did this'. This book makes the Bush Administrations case for going to war with Iraq very questionable.

Not quite the full story

The commission did the best it could, hampered as it was by the refusal of the administration to cooperate. For a fuller, more complete view of what led to 9/11, check the titles below.

America's Wake-up Call

The tragedy that unfolds throughout the pages of the 9/11 Commission Report is a reminder to each and every reader that individuals cannot change the events that happen during a lifetime but individual lives are changed by events. Read the book and use all of the emotions that it evokes to make meaningful changes in your own life. Commit to living each and every day to the fullest. Regardless of how the terrorist attacks happened, we can all agree that the events before, during and after that unforgettable September morning were life altering.

Fact is More Engaging Than Fiction

The authors of the Report have managed to so subtly impress order on a vast amount of information that they have recreated not only the events of September 11, but the atmosphere in which they unfolded. The result is a narrative which neither trivializes the public and personal cost by opting for sensation nor minimizes the reality by resorting to a sterile recitation of innumerable facts. The reader is impelled by the flow of information; and this is as it should be for so overwhelming a day. The facts are what they are. The art is in the accessibility.

Ignores The Obvious

Nothing more than a 2004 version of the Warren Commission. It¿s obvious to anyone who has bothered to investigate the events that took place on September 11, that these attacks were executed and carried out by our very own government.

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should be read by all

It might seem long at first, but it is any easy read, very accessible - the style is more like a novel than anything else. If you only read the 'report' itself it is a shame because many of the interesting hard facts and factoids are to be found in the foot/endnotes - the 'meat' is there, the reader must just make the effort to read everything. Same for the recommendations, they make sense, but their application seems uncertain as they are over-broad in some cases (increasing congressional oversight?!) or bound to become political hot potatoes. The bi-partisan approach shows in such that the errors made by both administrations involved are mentioned. The style might detract from the importance of what is written, but overall this should be definite required reading for all. May there be more commission reports published in a similar way on issues just as important, if not more! (as medicare, ..)

the Imagination Failure

Asked and answered is the central insight of The 9/11 Commission Report. Richard Holbrooke posed the question: ¿How can a man in a cave outcommunicate the world¿s leading communications society?¿ (Pp. 377.) [This is the most vital of all the components of the attack and this war we find ourselves in. It is a war about ideas, the future, and hope. And these are uniquely human properties best understood via the framework of language and communication.] The Commission answered: ¿¿four kinds of failures: in imagination, policy, capabilities, and management. (pp.339) The latter three spill down from the first. And in reading the step-by-step account of the attack reported in the Commission¿s book¿the salient Imagination, or lack of, belongs to the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. Contrary to what the administration has repeatedly said in framing its defense-- the terrorists don¿t, or in this case didn¿t, have to be right just once. In fact, they have to have so many contingencies break in their favor to be successful in an attack of the magnitude of 9/11-- that it seems nearly impossible that they did succeed! In other words, that attack was a sort of ¿perfect storm¿. The report specifies what is necessary in order for terrorists to succeed: leadership; communication; personnel; training; security; intelligence; travel; money; coordination; timing and time itself. Any misstep or bad luck and the spectacular attack of 9/11 would not have happened. That it did happen is not so much a case of the systems and capabilities not being sufficient¿they were; but rather the mindset (imagination) of the President. The report details just how remarkable the intelligence information and its significance must be in order to reach the status of headlining the PDB (presidents daily brief). On August 6th, 2001 the terrorist threat had crossed that threshold and screamed: ¿Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.¿ This followed intelligence reports with these declarations: Qaeda activity ¿had reached a crescendo¿; something ¿very,very,very,very¿ big was about to happen; ¿Bin Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks.¿ [the threat] could not ¿get any worse¿. The President pooh-poohed it as ¿historical¿. I am familiar enough with Bush¿s mannerisms that I can picture him reading that PDB, looking up from his desk and saying ¿Yeah¿ and then proceed to tell anyone and everyone just how it 'really¿ is¿and get ready for his vacation back at the ranch. Historical in his mind was likely defined as anything left over from the previous president. He had his own ideas (or the ideas of his advisors) about what was, or was not, a threat and that¿s the way it is! I cannot help but think that in all likelihood, had Clinton still been President¿the attack would have been foiled. Clinton took al Qaeda as real and the most menacing foreign threat facing America. He would have responded differently to ¿The System Blinking Red¿. [I have no idea how Al Gore would have responded.] The point is this: the attack of 9/11 succeeded because the ability to respond to a ¿system blinking red¿ was not inherent in President Bush. He did not take the threat seriously. He lacked the imagination to see it and to take any additional steps to counter it. Period. And now¿the threat has changed and he can¿t see that. All that has been done since September of 01 has done two things. First, made the repeat of that attack impossible, (Yes, in that regard we are safer. Steps have been taken that have undoubtedly sufficiently disrupted the necessary components, that made it possible that domestic jet airliners could be hijacked and used as missiles to attack targets in America.) That won¿t happen again. And second, America¿s foreign policy has significantly increased the hatred towards America throughout the world. That hatred spawns individuals willing to wage an unconventional war against America. The number of such individuals has greatly increased. In that re

Brilliant!

If only the 9/11 Commission could now turn its attention to writing our federal tax code so clearly. Somewhere, Tom Clancy is learning about action writing all over again. A great memorial.

A must read!!!

I havent gotten all the way through yet but this book is very imformative and lets you understand what the government knows about the goings on in the plane during the hi-jackings and also the type of man Bin Ladin is. This is something everyone should read.

All US Citizens must read

I admit, I haven't read the whole thing yet, but I already know that each and every citizen of the US should read this report. Have a copy in every home for younger people to read when they are old enough. 20 years from now this report should still be mandatory at every high school in the country.

THE BROKEN SYSTEM

I always knew by personal experience that the big bloated bureaucracy was broken. The 9/11 report not only validated my belief but came up with its own version of broken: dysfunctional. Well-paid political leaders should be ashame of themselves, free-loaders at the expense of hard-working Americans: they let me down.

Great book

I picked it up the day it came out, I've never put it down more than 3 times since then. It's really a great book, and you can finally get a sense of closure from the terrorist attacks. The timeline is so amazingly on track, and it's amazing to look at the time, and think what you were doing at that exact moment on 9/11. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants closure from the attacks. No one is to blame for the attacks, it was a series of poor communication, and false information.