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9-11 REPORT

James Joyner | Friday, July 25, 2003

Fred Kaplan has a good quickie analysis of the Congressional report on 9-11. The most telling finding–one of little surprise to those of us who pay attention to bureaucratic politics–was that the interagency process and lack of attention to non-core functions within the intelligence agencies was a huge problem.

It should be emphasized, however, that nothing here is evidence that the 9-11 attacks would have been thwarted by more efficient bureaucracy. But major reform has been a long time coming.

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9-11 REPORT

James Joyner | Thursday, July 24, 2003

The Joint House-Senate Intelligence Committee report on 9-11 is available in PDF form.

(Hat tip: Kris)

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I read through the findings and this is the sentence that stuck out for me:

The United States persisted in observing the rule of law and accepted norms of international behavior, but Bin Ladin and al-Qaâida recognized no rules and thrived in the safe haven provided by Afghanistan

Posted by Chris | July 24, 2003 | 05:32 pm | Permalink

I think we should have a "fill in the redacted material" contest for the report.

My entry: replace every instance of [---] with "Saudi Arabia" and you probably will get a pretty good approximation of the classified version of the report.

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Posted by Chris Lawrence | July 24, 2003 | 08:13 pm | Permalink

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