Talk:9/11 Commission

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*Support as the nominator ~ trialsanderrors 01:47, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: In the Criticism section, it is currently organized:
#Criticism of Democrats
#Criticism of the White House
#Criticism of Commission Members
I think this could be better organized. For one thing, having criticism of Democrats first makes it seem like that's the most important or noteworthy criticism, which is not the case. (Although it's hard for me to have npov about it.) Second, I think there will always be criticisms of Rs by Ds and by Ds of Rs in any situation, and I think that's barely noteworthy. Ds and Rs might say things in Congress, but only their acts (e.g. extending the commission's deadline) are important, IMHO.
I would divide it like this:
#Criticism of bias within the commission. (Mentioning potential pro-airline, pro-R, and pro-D bias)
#Criticism that the commission is being stonewalled. (Mentioning actions by the White House and Congress)
#Criticism that the commission is being used for partisan purposes (Mostly of Ds)
I think this would be better, but I don't want to unilaterally make such a big change. What do you think?
Quadell 14:36, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think your idea is good. The current subheadings are ambiguous. Does "Criticism of Democrats" mean Democratic criticism of the Commission, or criticism of the Democrats on the Commission, or just criticism of Democratics in general pertaining to the Commission? Bkonrad | Talk 14:47, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: That's going to happen when the final report is released. For the time being, I'm creating a new section on the contents of the final report. I'll just add the Iran-Al-Queda rumors for now. Gregb 18:43, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

text: I would assume that it's like any other printed work, that the money's going to the bookseller, and ending up at the organizations printing it. Just like how we can publish and get paid for copies of Shakespeare plays, even though those are public domain.  --Gregb 05:48, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism section

message: Two points. One, shouldn't there be a separate article for the 9/11 Commission Report? The book is different from the commission itself, and I have made lots of link from other articles that say something like "According to the 9/11 Commission Report. . ." It would seem more natural to split this article into the commission and the report. Does anyone object if I do this?
Second, gregb recently removed this link to criticism of the report:
An unresolved mystery: The mass murder of 9/11 His reason was "Link wasn't up to the caliber of the other three. Criticisms are A-OK, as long as they're cogent. Non-addressal of small ambiguities != coverup"
That's a perfectly valid opinion, but it's still an opinion, as I see it. I see a POV issue, and I think that link (or a different one on the same topic) ought to be included. As for criticism of the report, the report's still new, so there aren't too many options. There's the above, from Global Research California, basically summing up the disagreements from different parties. There's this article by the World Socialist Web Site, saying the report let the CIA off the hook too easy. There's this from a Hindu business magazine, saying the report let Pakistan and Saudi Arabia off the hook too easy. And there's this from Defense Talk, that's basically a watered-down version of all of the above. We ought to include at least one link. Any preference?
:I guess my main concern was that the link cited was a poor representation of the critics of the report. The particular bit cited in that article is IMHO blown way out of proportion. There are waay juicier targets in the report. I would suggest the article about Pakistan and Saudi Arabia personally. A possible solution would be to create a section within the article for post-release criticisms of the report. I would preferably have added it when I removed the link, but I wasn't as knowledgable about the issue (which led to my subsequent exploration and editing of the 9-11 conspiracy article). I'd welcome just a section that mentions those criticisms. In lieu of that, the pakistan and Saudi Arabia link as well as the Defense Talk article would be wonderful. Sorry for the somewhat cryptic edit summary and my rather abrupt way of handling things. It's just a problem with external links, because you can't improve the content of said external links :) --Gregb 16:45, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: In lieu of a response, I went ahead and added the latter two links to the article. Hopefully this'll make for more balance. --Gregb 19:22, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: oops, this comment belongs in the criticisms section above.  Umeboshi 23:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism of the report

message: There are other articles where this would be better placed, like List of people questioning the official American 9/11 account. Tom Harrison Talk 17:18, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ed Asner doesn't belong here

message: How was the commission "set up in late 2002"? By whom, and in what way? I was just curious about those things, but can't find anything in the article about it with a quick skim. Fresheneesz 04:29, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: created how?

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thread_title: YouTube links

message: This page was flagged due to the inconsistency in its linking and referencing. I think I have it fixed, if someone could please go through and double-check my work.  There were two references I could not verify existed...if you feel those unreferenced sentences should just be deleted then it probably should. akronpow 21:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: References and links

message: The obviously official text says
... including preparedness for (and the immediate response to) the attacks. 
I have a problem to understand this: preparedness for the attacs is a bit late. they already happened. Or: who prepared them? The commission?
Maybe people with English as mother-tongue can explain.
In the Esperanto-translation in Vikipedia it reads even more funny
--Hans W 16:06, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Language problem

message: I believe that the title of this page is misleading.  This title purports to be a discussion of the 9/11 Commission, but in reality is simply a discussion of potential (and mostly unsubstantiated) biases and criticisms of the commission's constituents and their associated backgrounds.
A simple word count reveals that 69.8% of the text is dedicated to discussing criticisms of the commission leaving a paltry 30% to actual factual discussions of the commission.
This Wiki should be renamed "Criticisms of the 9/11 Commission" or "Alleged Bias of 9/11 Commissioners."  To retain its current title the Wiki should be edited to include unbiased biographies of commission members and/or policy considerations taken up, possibly followed by a discussion of conclusions and/or subsequent policy implementation.
I appreciate your responses in advance.
--BlutoBlutarsky 16:25, 23 April 2007
:I agree, section 5 should be its on article.
::I agree, it looks like the bulk of the article is taken over by criticisms.  I tried to summarize the criticisms here and I created Criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report for the detail.  I linked to the later from this article.  Feel free to copyedit to read better, etc. Johntex\talk 04:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Title Correction

message: I think that the Sandy Berger section is important but is too long and is far from being the most important criticism of the work of the Commission. I propose that the entire Berger section be moved way down in the article and made a bit more succinct. --NYCJosh 00:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree, and I edited out most of it and suggested creating a new article on Berger separately.  I hate the guy too, but it made the overall article appear biased. 207.82.44.3 16:12, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sandy Berger

message: ===witheal101===
If it was such a bad thing then why is the media enjoying talking about it. And why are we blameing Iraq for all we know it could of been N. Korea.66.82.9.58 11:51, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why all the talk about it?

message: If it was such a bad thing then why is the media enjoying talking about it. And why are we blameing Iraq for all we know it could of been N. Korea.66.82.9.58 11:51, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: witheal101

message: I removed:
* Thomas Kean has a history of investments that link him to Saudi Arabian investors who have financially supported both George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden in the past. One example is his former business connections to Khalid bin Mahfouz, an alleged terrorist financier. He was also at one point or still is on the board of Pepsi Bottling, Amerada Hess, UnitedHealth Group, CIT Group and Aramark.
* Fred F. Fielding has done legal work for two of Bush's leading "Pioneer" fund-raisers. Fielding also works for a law firm lobbying for Spirit Airlines and United Airlines.
* Slade Gorton has close ties to Boeing, which built all the planes destroyed on 9/11, and his law firm represents several major airlines, including Delta Air Lines.
* James Thompson is the head of a law firm that lobbies for American Airlines, and he has previously represented United Airlines.
* Richard Ben-Veniste has represented Democratic National Chairman Terry McAuliffe, and continues to represent Boeing and United Airlines.
* Max Cleland, former U.S. Senator, has received $300,000 from the airline industry. He publicly complained about the White House's refusal to cooperate, then was appointed head of the U.S. Export/Import Bank by the president and resigned from the Commission.
* Lee Hamilton sits on many advisory boards, including those to the CIA, the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council, The United States Commission on National Security, and the US Army.
* Tim Roemer represents Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
because these were all uncited claims about living people. They can be put back in, with citations. Superm401 - Talk 23:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Conflicts

message: This document, p. 26f., contains some pertinent information about the relationship between the 9/11 Commission and members of the administration at the time. It's a primary source, of course. Maybe someone has got the time to search for related secondary sources on this.  Cs32en Talk to me  18:37, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Pages 25 through 30 document a request from the 9/11 Commission for access to detainee interrogations, and the response to that request from Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, and Tenet.  MSNBC wrote an article on this topic in 2008.(ref)  From the MSNBC article: "Remember," the intelligence official said, "The Commission had access to the intelligence reports that came out of the interrogation. This didn't satisfy them. They demanded direct personal access to the detainees and the administration told them to go pound sand."  Page 26 of the CIA document shows the (apparently proposed) tripartite response: "As the officers of the United States responsible for the law enforcement, defense and intelligence functions of the Government, we urge your Commission not to further pursue the proposed request to participate in the questioning of detainees."  This topic is briefly covered in the Criticism of the 9/11 Commission article, using the MSNBC article as a reference.  It's interesting to see some of the actual communications behind the issue, from the primary sources. Wildbear (talk) 03:49, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Exchange of letters between Kean/Hamilton and Rumsfeld/Tenet/Ashcroft

message: "George W. Bush - President; refused to testify under oath. Refused to testify in public. Refused to testify separately from Dick Cheney. Refused to have testimony transcribed or recorded"
The link provided for these claims does not say any of this though. He didn't refuse to testify under oath, the article says that "testimony was not under oath". A bit different. Refused to testify in public is unclear, same as with Cheney. About the transcription the text is "Under the White House conditions, the testimony was not recorded, nor was a stenographer present to make a formal transcript. Rather, commission members were allowed to take detailed notes during the meeting"
and
"the session was not officially transcribed because the White House considered it a "private meeting" in which highly classified information would be discussed."
This should be corrected.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idonthavetimeforthiscarp (talk • contribs) 20:31, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccuracies 

message: It would be very useful to have listed, either here or on 9/11 Commission Report which recommendations were actually implemented, when, and by which law or regulation. -- Beland (talk) 21:29, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which recommendations were implemented? 

message: I've just re-removed the para on an error in George Tenet's testimony being corrected by the CIA - no reason is given for why this is significant, and it's hardly unusual for people to make mistakes in testimony to hearings and then promptly correct the record as seems to have happened here. Nick-D (talk) 10:23, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems to be your opinion. For this material to be worth considering, it needs to be supported by a strong citation to a reliable source which identifies it as being a significant issue during the Commission's hearings. Nick-D (talk) 07:33, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  George Tenet testimony 

message: Please add to the Heading the September 11 Commission heading 
The Commission will reassemble in Washington on July 22, 2014, for the tenth anniversary of the issuance of its report. It will assess how well the government is performing given current terrorist threats and make recommendations for changes moving forward. http://bipartisanpolicy.org/events/2014/07/911-commission-report-ten-years-later
Note: it is important that this is added to the page,for Kean will play a key role in these upcoming proceedings.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Govhistoryarchivecn (talk • contribs) 16:44, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition needed for [[Thomas Kean]] 

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