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Documents From Congress' Joint Inquiry into 9/11
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Documents From Congress' Joint Inquiry into 9/11
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/hearings/

>>> From June to October 2002, the Intelligence Committees from the US Senate and House teamed up to probe, more or less, 9/11. Of course, the Joint Investigation ran into all kinds of roadblocks. It took Congress five months to even announce the inquiry and another four months before it got started. Bush and Cheney each personally asked then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to keep the scope of the probe narrow. Republican Senator Richard Shelby openly complained of the lack of cooperation from the FBI, intelligence agencies, and others. [Read more]
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/ma03/ma03prados.html

Throughout June, July, and the first half of September, 2002, the Joint Inquiry held closed sessions. The second half of September saw all open hearings, while those in October alternated between open and closed. In December, the Joint Inquiry issued its report, but only 24 pages were publicly released out of a total of over 800.

In May 2003, Newsweek, Knight Ridder, and other media outlets reported that the Bush Administration was working to block the release of the Joint Inquiry's full report. In fact, officials were quoted as saying that they'd like to retroactively classify parts of the material that came out during the open hearings. They're upset about some of the information divulged by senior intelligence officials and by the Inquiry staff's leader, Eleanor Hill. (They now regret giving Hill and her team access to so many classified intelligence briefings.) [Read more]
http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp?0cv=KA01

But you can't put the genie back in the bottle. We're going to help make sure of that. Below you'll find Acrobat files of all publicly released statements from the hearings, including the very ones the White House wants to restrict. The Memory Hole has had several of Hill's crucial statements professionally typed so they can be posted as HTML text (thanks to our donors!), and more will be done in the near future. We've also included a rare transcript of Hill's testimony from the first open session of the Inquiry, as well as the summary and recommendations that were released at the end. (Documents are listed as they appear on the Intelligence Committees Websites.)

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http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/hearings/

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