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911 Commission
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission), chaired by former New Jersey Governor
Thomas Kean, was formed in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attacks,
including preparedness for, and the immediate response to, the attacks. On July 22, 2004, the 9/11 Commission issued the 9/11
Commission Report. The Commission and report have been subject to various forms of criticism, on a number of different bases.
Internal review of the CIA
The Inspector General of the CIA conducted an internal review of the CIA's pre-9/11 performance, and was harshly critical
of senior CIA officials for not doing everything possible to confront terrorism, including failing to stop two of the 9/11
hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, as they entered the United States and failing to share information on the
two men with the FBI.
Senators from both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in May, 2007 drafted legislation that would openly present
an internal CIA investigative report. One of the backers, Senator Ron Wyden stated "The American people have a right
to know what the Central Intelligence Agency was doing in those critical months before 9/11.... I am going to bulldog this
until the public gets it." The report investigates the responsibilities of individual CIA personnel before and after
the 9/11 attacks. The report was completed in 2005, but its details have never been released to the public.
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