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Sept. 11 Commission Members to Request Information From White House on Federal Agencies
Members of the Sept. 11 commission are expected to present a letter this week requesting White House permission to gather information from the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Department, the State Department and other federal agencies about their performance in addressing terrorist threats cited in the commission’s report last summer, the New York Times reported today (see GSN, June 3). Commission members are preparing for a series of public hearings scheduled to begin today, which are expected to result in a “report card” evaluating implementation of counterterrorism policies recommended in the earlier report, according to the Times. “We’re going to ask a lot of questions,” said Thomas Kean, chairman of the commission and former Republican governor of New Jersey. “There are a lot of our recommendations that have not been implemented.” The 9/11 Public Discourse Project, a lobbying organization on whose board Kean now sits, has scheduled eight public hearings. Commission members acknowledged that they no longer had authority to compel disclosure of information or witness testimony. But Kean said he was hopeful that the Bush administration would cooperate and that some senior officials would be willing to publicly answer questions (Philip Shenon, New York Times, June 6).
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