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9/11 Commission Chairman Says Attacks Were Preventable
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States could have been prevented and people should be held accountable for the security failures that preceded the suicide hijackings, the chairman of a commission investigating the attacks said in an television interview broadcast Wednesday. “I do not believe it had to happen,” said Tom Kean, who is also the former Republican governor of New Jersey. “There were people certainly, if I was doing the job, who would certainly not be in the position that they were in at that time, because they failed. They simply failed,” he added. White House spokesman Scott McClellan rejected Kean’s comments. “There is nothing that we have seen that leads us to believe that September 11th could have been prevented,” he said (Dana Milbank, Washington Post, Dec. 19). Kean said, however, that the current or previous presidents should not be blamed for the attacks. “We have no evidence that anybody high in the Clinton administration or the Bush administration did anything wrong,” Kean said Thursday in an interview on ABC’s Nightline (Associated Press/USA Today, Dec. 19).
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