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The 9/11 Commission Report, the official United States government investigation of the events of September 11, 2001, released July 2004.
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Foreign Policy
- Make a long-term commitment to supporting Pakistan. (Jul 22)
- Expand Saudi relations from oil to anti-extremism. (Jul 22)
- Multilateral coalition for Muslim youth outreach. (Jul 22)
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Government Reform
- Replace CIA director with new National Intelligence Czar.
- End secrecy about national intelligence appropriations.
- Replace "need-to-know" culture with "need-to-share".
- Congressional oversight for intelligence is dysfunctional.
- No new domestic intelligence agency-use FBI.
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Homeland Security
- No connection between Iraq and 9/11.
- Focus on potential terrorist sanctuaries like Saudi Arabia.
- US majority support among Muslims on 9-11 collapsed by 2003.
- Must defeat ideology of terrorism, not Muslim people.
- Support "Cooperative Threat Reduction" on Soviet nukes.
- Continue targeting terrorist financing; add terrorist travel.
- Screen for individual terrorists at borders, no profiling.
- Guidelines, supervision, & oversight of new security powers.
- Fund better communications between emergency responders.
- Improve human intel with racial and linguistic diversity.
- Several missed opportunities to disrupt 9/11 hijackers.
- Most important failure on 9/11 was one of imagination.
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The above quotations are from The 9/11 Commission, the official United States government investigation of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, released July 2004.
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