9/11 Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Investigation, Intelligence Failures, and 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
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The 9/11 Report assembles a rigorously documented national inquiry into the September 11, 2001, attacks, combining narrative reconstruction, investigative synthesis, institutional analysis, and policy recommendation. Its scope ranges from the terrorists' planning and the day's unfolding events to intelligence failures, aviation security, emergency response, and the changing demands of national defense. The report's lucid chronology and its searching examination of governmental coordination make it both a foundational public document and a consequential work of contemporary political history. Produced through the collective labor of commissioners, investigators, researchers, and staff, the volume reflects expertise in law, public policy, intelligence, security, and historical inquiry. These voices situate the attacks within transnational terrorism, Cold War and post-Cold War security structures, and debates over democratic accountability. Rather than offering a single disciplinary lens, the commission's collaborative method brings evidentiary records, testimony, and institutional critique into dialogue, clarifying how dispersed decisions and systems shaped a shared national crisis. Essential for students, scholars, policymakers, and engaged citizens, this volume offers an unusually comprehensive opportunity to examine a pivotal event through multiple analytical perspectives. Readers will find enduring educational value in its careful documentation, breadth of insight, and sustained conversation between historical narrative and reform-minded analysis.

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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length33 hrs 2 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 3, 2020
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Warren Commission Report (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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