Various materials about classification and documents concerning the 9/11 Commission and the US Department of Defense:
(1) Two e-mail chains about classification;
(2) A letter from Under Secretary...
Some e-mails sent between the 9/11 Commission and the National Security Agency in 2003. They discuss briefing requests and documents. The Defense Department apparently wanted document requests for ...
E-mail from 9/11 Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow to Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone on November 3, 2003. The 1-page e-mail concerns the commission's access t...
A set of documents about the referral of false statements by FAA and NORAD officials. The file includes:
(-) A letter from the Department of Transportation inspector general acknowledging the recei...
Certifications from government agencies saying that they have fully complied with the 9/11 Commission's document requests. The certifications come from the departments of defense, transportation (w...
A memo from Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone to 9/11 Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow. The memo, dated November 25, 2003, says that the Pentagon is having trou...
Draft document requests drafted by the 9/11 Commission in mid-June 2003, together with an internal commission e-mail. The document requests are:
(1) Number 1 to the NSA. It asks for counterterrori...
A withdrawal notice for a 7-page document about Vice Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers, presumably either questions the commission wanted to ask him or his answers.
Questions drafted by the 9/11 Commission for former Defense Secretary William Cohen and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hugh Shelton.
The questions cover military options against Os...
Three pages of questions drafted by the 9/11 Commission for former Secretary of the Air Force Whit Peters. They cover general policy, counterterrorism, the Predator, operations against al-Qaeda, an...
Two pages of questions drafted by the 9/11 Commission for a Pentagon official known as "Tucker" about special operations and low-intensity conflict (SOLIC). They cover SOLIC's position in the milit...
7 pages of questions drafted by the 9/11 Commission for General Peter Schoomaker. They cover counterterrorism and special operations generally, the response to the East African embassy bombings, po...
Questions drafted by the 9/11 Commission for General Peter Pace. They cover the process for planning of military operations, the response to the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996 and conduct of the "wa...
Interview requests from the 9/11 Commission for Defense Department personnel Austin Yamada, OSD/SOLIC, Thomas Kuster, OSD/SOLIC, David Tucker of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey (filed in...
A subpoena served by the 9/11 Commission on the US Department of Defense. The subpoena was issued after the DoD repeatedly failed to comply with the commission's document requests.
9/11 Commission Document Request No. 18 for the US Department of Defense. The document request is for materials linked to military exercises, such as Vigilant Guardian, Amalgam Virgo, Amalgam Warri...
Extracts from press articles in which military leaders explain why the military failed to defend the skies on 9/11, apparently compiled by the 9/11 Commission.
An internal 9/11 Commission memo from late October 2003 complaining about the lack of documents about the failure of the air defenses on 9/11 that have been produced by the Department of Defense.
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