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The 9/11 Commission Report

The 9/11 Commission

9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was prepared by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (informally sometimes known as the "9/11 Commission" or the "Kean/Zelikow Commission") at the request of the President of the United States and Congress.

The commission convened on November 26, 2002 (441 days after the attack) and their final report was issued on July 22, 2004.

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, History, Political Science

Language: English

Group: United States Government Reports

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Preface	Sam Stinson	00:09:33
Play 01	1. We Have Some Planes, 1.1 Inside the Four Flights	Sam Stinson	00:45:09
Play 02	1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense	musil	01:07:52
Play 03	1.3 National Crisis Management	Bob Seybold	00:33:17
Play 04	2.1 A Declaration of War	Carl Manchester	00:06:58
Play 05	2.2 Bin Ladin's Appeal in the Islamic World	James Christopher	00:17:19
Play 06	2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda	Great Plains	00:14:31
Play 07	2.4 Building an Organization	ajacoby	00:13:25
Play 08	2.5 Al Qaeda's Renewal in Afghanistan	Corey M. Snow	00:23:01
Play 09	3. Counterterrorism Evolves, 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New	BiddyM	00:09:09
Play 10	3.2 Adaptation--and Nonadaptation--in the Law Enforcement Community	BiddyM	00:31:55
Play 11	3.3 ... and in the Federal Aviation Administration	Maire Rhode	00:13:30
Play 12	3.4 ... and in the Intelligence Community	Maire Rhode	00:29:36
Play 13	3.5 ... and in the State Department and the Defense Department	Bob Seybold	00:15:58
Play 14	3.6 ... and in the White House	Bob Seybold	00:11:58
Play 15	3.7 ... and in the Congress	Bob Seybold	00:15:27
Play 16	4.1 Before the Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania	AnnaGrace	00:25:39
Play 17	4.2 Crisis: August 1998	Maire Rhode	00:22:19
Play 18	4.3 Diplomacy	Maire Rhode	00:20:33
Play 19	4.4 Covert Action	Maire Rhode	00:29:18
Play 20	4.5 Searching for Fresh Options	AnnaGrace	00:31:22
Play 21	5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs	Lee Ann Howlett	00:25:13
Play 22	5.2 The "Planes Operation"	Lee Ann Howlett	00:23:11
Play 23	5.3 The Hamburg Contingent	Lee Ann Howlett	00:32:45
Play 24	5.4 A Money Trail?	Maire Rhode	00:14:40
Play 25	6. From Threat To Threat, 6.1 The Millennium Crisis	Corey M. Snow	00:24:33
Play 26	6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection	Corey M. Snow	00:28:01
Play 27	6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole	Corey M. Snow	00:25:20
Play 28	6.4 Change and Continuity	Anna Simon	00:22:43
Play 29	6.5 The New Administration's Approach	Anna Simon	00:41:28
Play 30	7.1 First Arrivals in California	Lee Ann Howlett	00:27:08
Play 31	7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States	Lee Ann Howlett	00:24:04
Play 32	7.3 Assembling the Teams	Lee Ann Howlett	00:27:30
Play 33	7.4 Final Strategies and Tactics	Lee Ann Howlett	00:39:06
Play 34	8.1 The Summer of Threat	Lee Ann Howlett	00:37:18
Play 35	8.2 Late Leads	Lee Ann Howlett	00:38:09
Play 36	9.1 Preparedness as of September 11	Bob Seybold	00:18:14
Play 37	9.2 September 11, 2001 - part 1	Allyson Hester	01:12:08
Play 38	9.2 September 11, 2001 - part 2	Allyson Hester	00:22:25
Play 39	9.3 Emergency Response at the Pentagon	Allyson Hester	00:07:33
Play 40	9.4 Analysis	Maire Rhode	00:30:45
Play 41	10. Wartime, 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home	Maire Rhode	00:16:45
Play 42	10.2 Planning for War	Carl Manchester	00:14:58
Play 43	10.3 "Phase Two" and the Question of Iraq	Carl Manchester	00:21:53
Play 44	11. Foresight--and Hindsight, 11.1 Imagination	Cori Samuel	00:30:33
Play 45	11.2 Policy	texttalker	00:08:44
Play 46	11.3 Capabilities	Lee Ann Howlett	00:08:26
Play 47	11.4 Management	Lee Ann Howlett	00:22:15
Play 48	12.1 Reflecting on a Generational Challenge	Maire Rhode	00:15:28
Play 49	12.2 Attack Terrorists and Their Organizations	Bob Seybold	00:27:54
Play 50	12.3 Prevent the Continued Growth of Islamist Terrorism	Lee Ann Howlett	00:25:18
Play 51	12.4 Protect against and Prepare for Terrorist Attacks	Phillipa Chantry	00:47:42
Play 52	13. How To Do It?, 13.1 Unity of Effort across the Foreign-Domestic Divide	BiddyM	00:23:50
Play 53	13.2 Unity of Effort in the Intelligence Community	Maire Rhode	00:27:33
Play 54	13.3 Unity of Effort in Sharing Information	Maire Rhode	00:09:24
Play 55	13.4 Unity of Effort in the Congress	Bob Seybold	00:09:04
Play 56	13.5 Organizing America's Defenses	Alana Jordan	00:18:41

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