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About the Commission
The
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the
9-11
Commission),anindependent, bipartisan commission createdbycongressional legislationand thesignature
of
President George W. Bush in late 2002, is chartered to prepare a
full
and complete account of thecircumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and theimmediate responseto theattacks.The
Commission
isalso mandatedtoprovide recommendationsdesigned
to
guard against
future
attacks.
Commission Members
ThomasH.Kean
Chair
Lee
H.
Hamilton
Vice
Chair
Richard
Ben-Veniste
Max
Cleland
Fred F.
FieldingJamie S. GorelickSladeGortonJohn F. Lehman
Timothy
J. RoemerJames R. Thompson
ThomasH. KeanChair
Thomas Kean, chair,isformer governorof NewJersey(1982-1990)and, since1990,
the
president
of
Drew University. Kean also served
for ten
years
in theNew
Jersey Assembly, rising to the positions of
majority
leader, minorityleader, and speaker. As governor, he served on the President's Education Policy
Advisory
Committee and as chair of the Education
Commission
of the States
and
the National Governor's Association Task Force on Teaching. Whilepresident of Drew, Kean has served on several national committees andcommissions. He headed the American delegation to the UN Conference on
Youth in
Thailand, served
as
vice chairman
of the
American delegation
to theWorld
Conference
on
Women
in
Beijing;
and
served
as a
member
of the
-President's Initiative
on
Race.
He
also served
on the
National Endowment
for
Democracy. He is chair of the Newark Alliance and the National Campaign to
Prevent
Teen Pregnancy
and
former chair
of the
Carnegie Corporation
of New
York, Educate America,
and
the
National Environmental Education
and
Training Foundation. Kean
is on the
board
of a
number
oforganizations
including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Council of the World
Wildlife
Fund.
He
holds
a
B.A.
from
Princeton
University
and an
M.A.
from
Columbia UniversityTeachers College,
as
well
as
more than
25
honorary degrees
and
numerous awards
from
environmental
andeducational
organizations.
 
Lee
H.
HamiltonVice Chair
•Lee
Hamilton,
vice
chair, is president and director of the Woodrow Wilson
(international
Center for Scholars. Prior to becoming director of the Woodrow Wilson
Center
in
1999,
Hamilton servedfor 34yearsinCongress representing Indiana's Ninth
Mstrict.
During
his
tenure,
he
served
as
chairman
and
ranking member
of the
House
3ommittee
on Foreign
Affairs
(now the Committee on International Relations),
(chaired
the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East
from
the early 1970s until
]l993,
the
Permanent Select Committee
on
Intelligence,
and the
Select Committee
to
avestigate Covert
Arms
Transactions with Iran. Hamilton also served
as
chair
of the
Joint Economic Committee, working
to
promote long-term economic growth
and
development. As chairman of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress
and
a member of the House Standards of
Official
Conduct Committee, he was aprimary draftsmanofseveral House ethics
reforms.
Since leavingtheHouse,Mr.Hamiltonhasservedas a
commissioner
on the
influential
United States Commission
on
National
Security
in the
21
st
Century
(the
Hart-Rudman Commission),and wasco-chair
with
former Senator Howard Bakerof theBaker-HamiltonCommission to Investigate Certain Security Issues at Los Alamos. He is currently a member of thePresident's Homeland Security Advisory Council. Mr. Hamilton is a graduate of Depauw University andIndiana University law school, as well as the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and national awards
for
public service. Before
his
election
to
Congress,
he
practiced
law in
Chicago
and
Columbus, Indiana.
Richard Ben-VenisteCommissioner
iRichard
Ben-Veniste is a partner in the Washington law firm of Mayer, Brown,
j.Rowe
&
Maw.
He served as assistant
U.S.
attorney, Southern District New York,
^from
1968
to
1973,
which included service as chief of the Special Prosecution
^Section
from
1971
to
1973.
Mr.
Ben-Veniste
was
chief
of the
Watergate
Task
Force of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's
Office
from
1973
to
1975
and Special
J,Outside
Counsel Senate Committee
on
Government Operations
from
1976to
1977.
From
May
1995
to June
1996,
Mr. Ben-Veniste was chief counsel
l(minority)
of the
Senate Whitewater Committee.
Mr.
Ben-Veniste received
an
LB.
from
Muhlenberg College in
1964,
an LL.B.
from
Columbia University Law
(School
in 1967,
where
he was a
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar,
and an
LL.M.
from•Jorthwestern
University School of Law in
1968
under a Ford Foundationfellowshipgrant. He is a member of the bars of New York and the District of Columbia.
Mr.
Ben-Veniste
is the
co-author
of
Stonewall:TheReal
Story
of
the
Watergate
Prosecution
(Simon
&
Schuster), and has been a guest lecturer at numerous law schools, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia,Georgetown and
Fordham.
He is a
frequent
commentator on current
affairs
involving the intersection oflaw and politics.Mr.Ben-Venistehasbeen listedin
Who's
Who inAmerica
since
1975,
TheBest LawyersinAmerica
since1983,and
WashingtonianMagazine's
TopLawyersinWashington,DC.since 1992, whenthe
list
first
appeared.Mr. Ben-Veniste is a Presidential appointee to the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial GovernmentRecords Interagency Working Group, which is mandated to review and
declassify
secret documentsrelating to World War II era war crimes.
 
Max
Cleland
Commissioner
lax
Cleland
is a
distinguished
adjunct
professor
at
American University's
Washington
Semester Program, where
he
also serves
as a
fellow
in the
Center
for
Congressional
&
Presidential Studies.
A
former
senator
from
Georgia,
he
began
his
public
service
as an
officer
in the
U.S. Army, volunteering
for
duty
in
Vietnam
in
;
1967, where
he
served until
he was
very seriously wounded
in
April 1968.
After
I
recuperating
from
his
injuries,
he was
elected
to the
Georgia State Senate.
In
1975,
vhen
he was 34 years old, President Carter appointed him administrator of the
Veteran's
Administration, where
he
instituted
the
revolutionary "Vets Center
program,"
which
for the
first
time
offered
psychological counseling
as
well
as
physical
care
to
combat veterans.
After
serving
as
Georgia's secretary
of
state
from
11982-1995,
Cleland was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 where he served as
chairman of the Personnel Subcommittee of the Armed Services
Committee,
and was a
member
of the
Senate
Veteran's
Affairs
Committee. While
in the
Senate,
he
earned enormous respect
for his
work
in
such
areas as
health
care
and
education
reform,
bio-terrorism preparedness, homeland security,
and
fiscal
responsibility. Cleland
is
author
of
Strong
at the
Broken Places
and
Going
for the
Max!:
12
Principles
forLiving
Life
to the
Fullest.
He
holds
a
B.A.
in
English
from
Stetson
University
and a
Masters Degree
in
American History
from
Emory University,
as
well
as
honorary doctorate degrees
from
both institutions.
Fred F.
FieldingCommissioner
?red
Fielding is senior partner and head of Wiley, Rein, & Fielding'sjovernment
Affairs,
Business & Finance, Litigation and Crisislanagement/White Collar Crime Practices. From 1981-1986, he served as
Counsel
to the
President
of the
United States,
as
deputy counsel
from
1972-1974and
as AssociateCounsel
from
1970-1972.
He
also
served as
clearance counsel
during
the Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition. In addition to his public service
as
White House counsel, Fielding
has
served
as the
U.S.-designated arbitrator
at
be
Tribunal
on the
U.S.-U.K.
Air
Treaty Dispute (1989-1994),
as a
member
of
le
president's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform (1989) and as a
fiember
of the
secretary
of
transportation'sTask Force
on
Aviation Disasters,(1997-1998),
as
well
as
numerous other commissions.
He is a
member
of theDistrict
of Columbia and Pennsylvania Bars, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court,
Eastern
District of Pennsylvania; the District of Columbia Court of Appeals; U.S. District Court for the
District
of
Columbia; U.S. Courts
of
Appeals
for the
D.C., Federal, First, Third, Fourth,
and
Ninth Circuits;
the
U.S. Court of Military Appeals; and the U.S. Supreme Court. He holds an A.B., with
honors,
from
Gettysburg
College and a J.D.
from
the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the
Editorial
Board
of the
Virginia
Law
Review.
JamieS. GorelickCommissioner
amie Gorelick
is
vice chair
of
Fannie Mae.
As
part
of the
four-person
Office
ofhe
Chairman,
she
shares responsibility
for
overall management
of the
company,
irects its
efforts
to
reach underserved markets
and
oversees Fannie Mae's
eternal
relationships, legal and regulatory
affairs.
Prior to joining Fannie Mae
n
May
1997,
Gorelick was deputy attorney general of the United States, a
iosition
she
assumed
in
March 1994. From
May
1993 until
she
joined
the
jjustice
Department, Gorelick served
as
general counsel
of the
Department
of
'efense.
From 1979
to
1980
she was
assistant
to the
secretary
and
counselor
to
:he
deputy secretary
of
energy.
In the
private sector,
from
1975
to
1979
and
.gain from
1980
to
1993, Gorelick
was a
litigator
in
Washington, D.C.,
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