9/11 Congressional Committee Edits

9/11 Commission panelist, Bob Kerrey, inquiries about the 1997 Bin Laden analysis from the CIA counter-terrorism had not been updated by 2001. Dr. K (acronym) was the analyst of the paper who works out of the CIA's Strategic Analysis for Terrorism.

From the 9/11 Commission, FBI Special Agent New York, Adam Drucker, comments on a tape found in Afghanistan showing an Al Qaeda militant, Abderaouf Jdey on a martyrdom video with other 9/11 participant but withdrew from the operation..

The CIA were aware of two known Al Qaeda operatives, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, were inside the United States and who were involved in a high level Al Qaeda summit meeting in Malaysia. However, the CIA with held this information from the FBI even during a June 2001 meeting between a CIA CTC officer and an FBI terrorism analyst in Washington DC. This excerpt is from Carl Levin from the Joint House Inquiry.

Tim Roemer, 9/11 Commission, asks James Steinberg (Clinton National Security Adviser) whether or not there should had been a National Security Council briefing regarding a military reaction in the immediate aftermath of the 1998 US Embassy bombings perpetrated by Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

From the Joint House Inquiry, Fred Thompson, asks CIA Director George Tenet, if the United States can intervene on allied countries behalf who have a growing arab fundamentalist problem.

Carl Levin, Joint House Inquiry, reads the intelligence chronology of Al Qaeda events since the mid 1990's in which had the intelligence been shared with other agencies or acted upon would have prevented terrorist incidents such as September 11th2 2001.

From the 9/11 Commission, panelist, Slade Gorton, asks Bush National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, if an all out war against Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan was feasible after the September 11th 2001 attacks

Thomas Kean, co-chair 9/11 Commission, asks the panel of the Office of Emergency Management, NYPD and Port Authority, are getting all data from federal and city agencies relating to counter-terrorism.

Jamie Gorelick, 9/11 Commission, asks Craig McKinley (Continental NORAD Regional Commander), if NORAD is collocated with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in regards to communicating information between the two.

Max Cleland, 9/11 Commission, asks Dennis Ross (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) whether the United States create the open ended defiance of Islamic jihadists while stationing in Islamic countries and with their military involvement in the first Gulf War in 1990.