9/11 Final Report of the National Commission
Investigation of the Attacks, Intelligence Failures, and National Security ReformBy Thomas R. Eldridge, Susan Ginsburg, Walter T. Hempel II, Janice L. Kephart, Kelly Moore, Joanne M. Accolla, The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United State
Length33h 3m
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The 9/11 Final Report of the National Commission is a landmark work of public history, investigative synthesis, and policy analysis. Combining chronological narrative, institutional critique, intelligence assessment, and practical recommendations, it reconstructs the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the conditions that enabled them. Its most compelling sections move between the lived immediacy of the day itself and the complex failures of communication, strategy, aviation security, and governmental oversight that preceded it. Prepared under the auspices of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, with research and writing contributions from Thomas R. Eldridge, Susan Ginsburg, Walter T. Hempel II, Janice L. Kephart, Kelly Moore, and Joanne M. Accolla, the volume reflects a collaborative inquiry rooted in law, security studies, government service, and historical documentation. Emerging from the post-9/11 moment, it belongs to a consequential body of literature concerned with democratic accountability, counterterrorism, and the responsibilities of public institutions. Its multiple investigative voices produce an unusually capacious record of national crisis. This volume is essential reading for students of modern American history, terrorism, public policy, and civic governance. Readers will find in it a rare opportunity to examine evidence, interpretation, and reform in sustained dialogue, gaining both factual grounding and a sharper sense of how institutions confront catastrophe.
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GenrePolitics and Government, Literary Classics
Length33 hrs 3 mins
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Publish dateDec 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Warren Commission (Complete Edition) (Annotated)
2Preface
31. “We Have Some Planes”
41.1 Inside the Four Flights
51.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense
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61.3 National Crisis Management
72. The Foundation of the New Terrorism
82.1 A Declaration of War
92.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World
102.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992)
112.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996)
122.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998)
133. Counterterrorism Evolves
143.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing
153.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation—in the Law Enforcement Community
163.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration
173.4 . . . and in the Intelligence Community
183.5 . . . and in the State Department and the Defense Department
193.6 . . . and in the White House
203.7 . . . and in the Congress
214. Responses to Al Qaeda’s Initial Assaults
224.1 Before the Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania
234.2 Crisis: August 1998
244.3 Diplomacy
254.4 Covert Action
264.5 Searching for Fresh Options
275. Al Qaeda Aims at the American Homeland
285.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs
295.2 The “Planes Operation”
305.3 The Hamburg Contingent
315.4 A Money Trail?
326. From Threat to Threat
336.1 The Millennium Crisis
346.2 Post-Crisis Reflection: Agenda for 2000
356.3 The Attack on the USS Cole
366.4 Change and Continuity
376.5 The New Administration’s Approach
387. The Attack Looms
397.1 First Arrivals in California
407.3 Assembling the Teams
417.4 Final Strategies and Tactics
428. “The System was Blinking Red”
438.1 The Summer of Threat
448.2 Late Leads—Mihdhar, Moussaoui, and KSM
459. Heroism and Horror
469.1 Preparedness as of September 11
479.2 September 11, 2001
489.3 Emergency Response at the Pentagon
499.4 Analysis
5010. Wartime
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