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Indianapolis Business Journal
April 27, 2018
Ever find yourself confused about what U.S. policy should be toward Russia after its invasion of Ukraine and seizure of Crimea, its support of Assad's murderous regime in Syria, and its apparent meddling in U.S. elections? Wonder what we should do about the North Korean nuclear threat? ConcernedÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 20, 2018
Suspected 9/11 recruiter Mohammed Haydar Zammar captured in Syria. The 9/11 Commission Report branded the German an "outspoken, flamboyant Islamist" who "relished any opportunity to extol the virtues of violent jihad." by F. Brinley Bruton and Courtney Kube / Apr.19.2018 / 5:24 AM ET / Updated Apr.20.2018 / 7:52Ãâà...
CNBC
April 20, 2018
A man linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. was captured in Syria by U.S.-backed forces more than a month ago, the Pentagon said. Mohammad Haydar Zammar, a Syrian-born German national, was said to have praised "violent jihad." The 9/11 Commission report, a congressionalÃâà...
Axios
April 19, 2018
Zammar was "a well-known figure in the Muslim community (and to German and U.S. intelligence agencies by the late 1990s)," the 9/11 Commission Report stated, according to NBC. Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon told CNN that Zammar "was captured more than a month ago by SDF partners as part of their ongoingÃâà...
Florida Bulldog (blog)
April 16, 2018
And Sean Carter, the Cozen O'Connor attorney who signed the subpoena, said, “We've been repeatedly told by U.S. officials that all questions of Saudi involvement were resolved by the 9/11 Commission and now you have confirmation that there was an active investigation happening years after the 9/11Ãâà...
Tampabay.com
April 9, 2018
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Victims' relatives seeking to hold Saudi Arabia legally responsible in the Sept. 11 attacks said Monday they intend to step up pressure on U.S. security agencies to turn over more investigative records. Brett Eagleson, whose father was killed in the twin towers, told a newsÃâà...
Daily Sabah
April 8, 2018
The 9/11 Commission report found "no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded" the attacks al-Qaida masterminded, but the commission also noted "the likelihood" that Saudi-government-sponsored charities did. Former senator Bob Graham, whoÃâà...
gvwire.com
April 4, 2018
He points to the so-called “28 pages” of the U.S. government's 9/11 Commission report from the 2002 investigation, released in 2016 after being classified for years, that effectively cleared Saudi officials of wrongdoing. “When the 28 pages were released, they didn't show any evidence linking the SaudiÃâà...
The Michigan Review
March 24, 2018
Division was sown in a country where anger over hanging chads in 2000 was halted only by the destruction of the Twin Towers, before the resultant, fleeting national unity was undone by the 9/11 commission and film “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Confusion reigns when Supreme Court Justices eschew the originalÃâà...
Government Technology
March 23, 2018
11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the 9/11 Commission recommended increased information sharing among various sectors, such as food, energy and transportation. The Research and Education Network Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or REN-ISAC, was formed in 2003 for the higher education sector.
Aljazeera.com
March 23, 2018
Furthermore, the 9/11 Commission, which was tasked with preparing a "full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding" the attacks, found no evidence of direct Iranian support, other than certain hijackers traveled through Iran on their way to Afghanistan, without having their passports stamped.
Newsweek
March 17, 2018
The story of 9/11 has been documented by the 9/11 Commission and other inquiries, but now, thanks to Hulu, we are able to see it unfold on a television screen and process what happened in a way that we, as a nation, have not yet been able to do. As they say, if we fail to learn from the past, we areÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 15, 2018
Sixteen years after 9/11, we still do not have a full picture of the events leading up to that terrible day; for example, while important intelligence was kept from my team investigating the Cole attack—intelligence that the 9/11 Commission concluded might have stopped the attacks—Americans still do not knowÃâà...
CBS News
March 13, 2018
President George W. Bush's 9/11 Commission was established to account for the circumstances surrounding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Others were less successful. In 2010, the report from President Barack Obama's bipartisan debt reduction commission did not win enough votes amongÃâà...
Politico
March 9, 2018
Richard Ben-Veniste, a former Watergate prosecutor and member of the 9/11 Commission, recalled that two of the criminal counts in the Watergate scandal — against former Attorney General John Mitchell and former Nixon chief of staff H.R. Haldeman — were for making false statements to investigatorsÃâà...
Daily Signal
March 9, 2018
The 9/11 Commission suggested giving primary jurisdiction for oversight of Homeland Security to only four bodies—an authorizing committee and an appropriating subcommittee in both the House and the Senate. This would structure Homeland Security oversight in the same manner as other departments,Ãâà...
KSMU Radio
March 8, 2018
There's a commission that's going to be set up that's going to be kind of like our version of the 9/11 Commission. It's going to examine all the events that led up to the to the Parkland shooting and the response afterwards. And then there's money to replace the building there where the shootings occurred andÃâà...
KERA News
March 8, 2018
There's a commission that's going to be set up that's going to be kind of like our version of the 9/11 Commission. It's going to examine all the events that led up to the to the Parkland shooting and the response afterwards. And then there's money to replace the building there where the shootings occurred andÃâà...
Duke Today
March 7, 2018
Clapper's position as director of national intelligence was created in 2005 based on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission to help coordinate the efforts of the United States' sprawling intelligence community. Clapper said the role functions as a principal intelligence and counterintelligence adviserÃâà...
MarketWatch
February 20, 2018
“Obviously we've had the 9/11 Commission Report but “The Looming Tower” really focuses on the characters themselves and how it happened.” Among the characters is Richard Clarke played by Stuhlbarg, who got on much better with President Clinton than he did with his White House successor GeorgeÃâà...
WAMU 88.5
December 31, 1999
... CIA directors, national intelligence and counter-terrorism chiefs, top diplomats with long records working in the Middle East, secretaries of state, some two dozen top-ranked retired admirals and generals, a former Republican attorney general and even the Republican chairman of the 9/11 commission.
Chicago Evening Post
December 31, 1999
Meticulously and thoroughly researched, the book addresses many issues that the 9/11 Commission did not fully address or opted to ignore in its official findings on the devastating and horrific terror attack that triggered America's war on terror. 9/11: The Unanswered Questions is not a conspiracy theoryÃâà...
Indianapolis Star
December 31, 1999
The position was created at the recommendation of the 9/11 Commission. Clapper drew scrutiny while holding the position after stating that the National Security Agency did not spy on U.S. citizens. "We believe we have been lawful," Clapper said before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2013. "What weÃâà...
Datanami
December 31, 1999
The 9/11 Commission identified a lack of coordination among U.S. intelligence agencies as a reason for failing to detect attacks on U.S. soil. One of the responses to the panel's findings was a multiagency effort to upgrade analytics efforts with particular emphasis on an emerging approach known asÃâà...
Syracuse.com
December 31, 1999
Katko said many of the 41 recommendations from the 9/11 commission turned into new laws aimed at improving U.S. security. Katko, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he will also support some immediate legislative responses in the aftermath of the Parkland, Fla., school shootingÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
There was one interesting TV failure, though: the 2006 ABC miniseries “The Path to 9/11,” which was the first dramatization to shine a light on the failures of the U.S. intelligence agencies in the years leading up to the attack. That show ultimately failed because it tried to shoehorn 2004's “9/11 CommissionÃâà...
