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Without Precedent

Kean, Thomas H., Hamilton, Lee H.

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Without Precedent

Thomas H. Kean was governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990, and from 1990 until 2005 he was the president of Drew University. He has served on numerous national committees and commissions, and has worked tirelessly for over a quarter century on behalf of environmental and educational organizations. He lives in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Lee H. Hamilton is president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was a congressman representing Indiana's Ninth District from 1965 to 1999, during which time he was chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and chair of the Joint Economic Committee. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Title of ebook: Without Precedent
ISBN: 9780307265494
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Internet download file size: 2467 kb
Released online for download: 08-15-2006
Author of eBook: Kean, Thomas H.
Author of eBook: Hamilton, Lee H.

Without Precedent

The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission
1

SET UP TO FAIL

[E]xamine and report upon the facts and causes relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, occurring at the World Trade Center in New York, New York, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon in Virginia.

— From Public Law 107-306, signed by President George W. Bush, November 27, 2002

We were set up to fail. The thought occurred to both of us as we prepared to meet for the first time on a cold day just before the Christmas season of 2002. The full 9/11 Commission would not meet for another month; this meeting would be just the two of us.

A thicket of political controversy lay ahead. The legislation creating the commission had been signed into law by President George W. Bush, after extended wrangling between Congress and the White House through the heated and often bitter midterm elections of 2002. We were scheduled to issue our final report in May 2004, just as the presidential election would be approaching full boil.

We had an exceedingly broad mandate. The legislation cre ... read full excerpt from Without Precedent ebook