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Date:
Tue,
22 Apr
2003 23:06:57 -0400
From:
PhilipZelikow <pzelikow@9-11
commission.gov>^
T°
mkara@9-11commission.gov4J, ckojm@9-11
commission.gov^G
C:
dhyde@9-11
commission.gov^,
jfarmer@9-11
commission.gov^,
dmarcus@9-11
commission.gov^,
'Stephanie
Kaplan'
<skaplan@9-11commission.gov>4f
Reply-to:
pzelikow@9-1
Icommission.gov^f
Subject:
RE:Team8Workpian
Folks
--
There seems
to be a bit of
a
misunderstanding about
the
questions
I
listed.
We
are
obliged
to recount the immediate response of the nation's leaders
to
the attack. We don't get to pick and choose in describing what theydid. They
did the
picking
and
choosing.
We have
the
obligation
to
recapture
that-
But
we do
have some choice about
the
extent
to
which
we
analyze
those
responses-
What are the criteria for our attention? Historical
significance?
Likelihood that comparable challenges might
be
facedagain! perhaps
if
there
is
another
attack?
Contingent character
of the
judgments?
Our interest in the issue?Chris offered
one
useful
map to
that
set of
choices.
I
appreciate
Miles'
reluctancen
but!
perhaps
unfortunately:
--
I
thinkwe'lldiscover that
all of
these decisions were made
at the
level
of
White House principals.-- The decisions about when to go to
NYCi
or how/whether to do an
airline
bailout!
and the
linked
decision
on the
victims compensation
fund
were described as things presidents do
anyway-
I think if you look
into
the substance of these
issues!
you may come to a different
conclusion-
There are several totally unprecedented features to the
latter
two
choices!
which were
linked-
—
Incidentally!
no one at the
time thought these
*MD
billion plus worth
of
nearly instantaneous decisions wereaforegone conclusion.-- The decision to create a White House Office of Homeland Security and
appoint
Ridge
was not "already in the works and accelerated by
T/11-"
Even though
there
had
been
a GAO
report about
it.-- The
assistance
in
reopening financial markets
did
indeed involve
White
House principals! and was not
simply
the work of the
SECi
though
Treasury
(Peter Fisher) played
a key
role-
-- Thereturnof
civil
aviationwasabout much more thanthereopening
of
Reagan
National
and
required
the
overnight national reversal
of
aviation security policies that
had
seemed
sacrosanct
for
years-Borderswerenotclosed!but keydecisions were made about borderand
port
security
measures-
http://kinesis.swishmail.com/webmail/imp/message.php?index=180 4/23/03
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