The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Indexed Hardcover, Authorized Edition) |
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| Title: | The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Indexed Hardcover, Authorized Edition) |
| Author: | National Commission on Terrorist Attacks |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 17 October, 2004 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0393060411 / 9780393060416 |
| List Price: | $19.95 |
| You Save: | $6.38 |
| Amazon Price: | $13.57 |
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Product Description
The authorized hardcover, indexed edition of the national bestseller.
Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil.
In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks, identify lessons learned, and provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism.
This hardcover volume is the authorized edition of the Commission's final report, and includes a full index.
Amazon.com Review
The result of months of intensive investigations and inquiries by a specially appointed bipartisan panel, The 9/11 Commission Report is one of the most important historical documents of the modern era. And while that fact alone makes it worth owning, it is also a chilling and valuable piece of nonfiction: a comprehensive and alarming look at one of the biggest intelligence failures in history and the events that led up to it. The commission traces the roots of al-Qaeda's strategies along with the emergence of the 19 hijackers and how they entered the United States and boarded airplanes. It details the missed opportunities of law enforcement officials to avert disaster. Using transcripts of cockpit voice recordings, the report describes events on board the planes along with the chaotic reaction on the ground from nearly every level of government. Going forward, the commission calls for a comprehensive overhaul of what it sees as a deeply flawed and disjointed intelligence-gathering operation. The creation of a post for a single National Security Director is recommended, along with the creation of a National Counterterrorism Center. The report finds fault with the approaches of both the Clinton and Bush administrations but, because they were a bipartisan panel and the problems described are so systemic and far-reaching, they stop short of assigning blame to any particular person or group. Credit must be given to how readable the report is. At more than 500 pages, the writing is clear and forceful and the information is made more accessible since it is fre from election politics and rancor. While the commission notes that future attacks are probably inevitable, a coordinated preventive effort along with a clear plan to respond with efficiency can offer Americans some hope in a post-9/11 world. --John Moe
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• The 9/11 Omission Report
05 November, 2009
This book should be called "The Omission Report". it is incredible how those high ranking officials and the Bush Administration could get away with so many lies they told the American People.
The bigger the lie the more people will believe it. Most of the people do not think, they let the news media do the thinking for them and the Commission Report is nothing but a cover up of those lies just like the 'Warren Commission" to cover up one of the greatest crimes in the history of the United States.
I suspected that from the very beginning when on September 12 2001 the Beirut radio station announced that hundreds of Jews did not go to work to the World Trade Center on September 11 2001. And when the U.S. government announced that Osama Bin Laden was behind the terrorist attacks I just did not believe it. Bin Laden did not have the capabilities for an operation this magnitude. Bin Laden had been under surveillance for long time. Every telephone call was monitored and Al-Qaeda has been penetrated by American Intelligence, Israeli intelligence, Pakistani, Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian intelligence, they couldn't have kept secret an operation that required such a degree of organization and sophistication. There is no way they could done it involving high degree of precision, coordination and organization.
This was a tremendously sophisticated operation against the United States. Whoever did it they needed the cooperation of the secret intelligence agencies. They needed schedules, timming, money, know the Country, know the aviation and the help of those agencies in order to cover their tracks.
The 9/11 Commission Report is an insult to human intelligence and to hundreds of witnesses who heard explosions in the basements and bottom part of the towers which indicated that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Outstanding Investigation
09 November, 2009
I'm truly impressed by the in-depth, bi-partisan, and overall stellar investigation conducted by the Commission. This report is a must read. It will give you a true understanding of what happened on 9/11, 2001. 5 Stars!
- Amazon Customer Review
• Did They Count On Us Not Actually Reading This?
16 October, 2009
There's not a whole lot to say on this report as there quite frankly is not a whole lot to the report. This is one of the worst pieces of "investigative committee work" that I have ever seen. They provide NO alternate viewpoints to the questions that so many are asking as to the holes in the official version. The complete collapse of building 7 is not even mentioned, and the report reads like a work of fiction, which in many cases one is compelled to believe that it is. This book and this report would NEVER hold up in a serious investigation in an impartial court of law (of course you would have to go outside of the United States to get that as any judge in this country will tow the government line.) If you can read this book with a straight face and not have numerous questions by REALLY paying attention to the text, then you're a better man than I.
- Amazon Customer Review
• 9/11 Commission Report
21 November, 2009
This is a must read for every American. Although the book answered a lot of questions about how we arrived at 9/11, there were many more questions left unanswered. At 450 pages (plus chapter notes), the 9/11 Commission Report is a rather lengthy book, but well worth the read if you any interest in politics, foreign policy, or the layers of Government that played a role in this tragic event.
- Amazon Customer Review
• 9/11 Commission Report
13 November, 2009
This is the official authorized edition with Index and Notes entitled "Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States" , also known as "The 9/11 Commission Report". This bi-partisan committee was established by Congress and President Bush in 2002 to address the facts and circumstances leading to the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, the actions by the government at all levels in responding to the attacks, recommendations going forward for the United States going forward to improve the ability of the Nation to prevent future terrorist attacks. This official account is the text I use in a 3-credit hour course at the University of Indianapolis, School of Adult Learning in a course called "Terrorism-The 9/11 Report". I recommend this text to anyone interested in knowing more about the 9/11 attacks but caution that many books have been written on this subjuct and so folks will have to do their own critical thinking on whether this book is the final authority on understanding how these attacks were able to happen and whether the actions on 9/11 as reported, capture the essence of both the attacks and the response, as well as whether the recommendations offered were appropriate and adequate for the U.S. going forward. The ten-person commission signed off on this final product without dissent, something of a major achievement, in and of itself.
- Amazon Customer Review
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