Documents From
Congress' Joint Inquiry into 9/11
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>>> From June to October 2002, the Intelligence Committees from the US Senate and House teamed up to probe, more or less, 9/11. Of course, the Joint Investigation ran into all kinds of roadblocks. It took Congress five months to even announce the inquiry and another four months before it got started. Bush and Cheney each personally asked then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to keep the scope of the probe narrow. Republican Senator Richard Shelby openly complained of the lack of cooperation from the FBI, intelligence agencies, and others. [Read more] Throughout June, July, and the first half of September, 2002, the Joint Inquiry held closed sessions. The second half of September saw all open hearings, while those in October alternated between open and closed. In December, the Joint Inquiry issued its report, but only 24 pages were publicly released out of a total of over 800. In May 2003, Newsweek, Knight Ridder, and other media outlets reported that the Bush Administration was working to block the release of the Joint Inquiry's full report. In fact, officials were quoted as saying that they'd like to retroactively classify parts of the material that came out during the open hearings. They're upset about some of the information divulged by senior intelligence officials and by the Inquiry staff's leader, Eleanor Hill. (They now regret giving Hill and her team access to so many classified intelligence briefings.) [Read more] But you can't put the genie back in the bottle. We're going to help make sure of that. Below you'll find Acrobat files of all publicly released statements from the hearings, including the very ones the White House wants to restrict. The Memory Hole has had several of Hill's crucial statements professionally typed so they can be posted as HTML text (thanks to our donors!), and more will be done in the near future. We've also included rare transcripts of the open sessions (thanks to Paul Thompson), as well as the summary and recommendations that were released at the end. (Documents are listed as they appear on the Intelligence Committees Websites.) |
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18 September 2002 Prepared statements: Ms.
Kristen Breitweiser Mr.
Stephen Push Ms.
Eleanor Hill |
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19 September 2002
Prepared statements: Panel 1 Witnesses Richard
Armitage Paul
Wolfowitz
Brent
Scowcroft Anthony
Lake Samuel
R. Berger |
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20 September Prepared statements: Panel 1 Witness Eleanor
Hill
Central
Intelligence Agency Officer Michael
Rolince FBI
New York Agent Chris
Kojm |
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24 September 2002 Prepared statements: Panel 1 Witness Eleanor
Hill
FBI
Phoenix Agent FBI
Headquarters Agent FBI
Minneapolis Agent |
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26 September 2002 Prepared statements: Cofer
Black Dale
Watson Robert
S. Mueller, III |
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01 October 2002 Prepared statements: Panel 1 Witness Eleanor
Hill
James
Gilmore, III Francis
Taylor Claudio
Manno Joseph
Greene Lowell
E. Jacoby Louis
Andre Edward
Norris |
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3 October 2002 Prepared statements: Panel 1 Witness Eleanor
Hill
Honorable
Lee H. Hamilton Judge
William Webster LTG
William E. Odom Frederick
Hitz |
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08 October 2002 Prepared statements: Panel 1 Witness Eleanor
Hill
Honorable
Warren Rudman Louis
Freeh Paul
Pillar Mary
Jo White Kie
C. Fallis |
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17 October 2002 Prepared statements: Panel 1 Witness Eleanor
Hill Eleanor
Hill
George
J. Tenet George
J. Tenet Robert
S. Mueller Michael
V. Hayden James
R. Clapper, Jr. Lowell
E. Jacoby |
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Initial
Scope of Joint Inquiry Findings
of the Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and
the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Joint Inquiry into
the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001
Recommendations of the Final Report of the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 Additional
Views of Senator Richard C. Shelby, Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence, September 11 and the Imperative of Reform in the U.S.
Intelligence Community |
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On the following dates, the Joint Inquiry held closed sessions: June 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20 |
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