This is a must read for every American. Although the book answered a lot of questions about how we arrived at 9/11, there were many more questions left unanswered. At 450 pages (plus chapter notes), the 9/11 Commission Report is a rather lengthy book, but well worth the read if you any interest in politics, foreign policy, or the layers of Government that played a role in this tragic event.

This is the official authorized edition with Index and Notes entitled "Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States" , also known as "The 9/11 Commission Report". This bi-partisan committee was established by Congress and President Bush in 2002 to address the facts and circumstances leading to the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, the actions by the government at all levels in responding to the attacks, recommendations going forward for the United States going forward to improve the ability of the Nation to prevent future terrorist attacks. This official account is the text I use in a 3-credit hour course at the University of Indianapolis, School of Adult Learning in a course called "Terrorism-The 9/11 Report". I recommend this text to anyone interested in knowing more about the 9/11 attacks but caution that many books have been written on this subjuct and so folks will have to do their own critical thinking on whether this book is the final authority on understanding how these attacks were able to happen and whether the actions on 9/11 as reported, capture the essence of both the attacks and the response, as well as whether the recommendations offered were appropriate and adequate for the U.S. going forward. The ten-person commission signed off on this final product without dissent, something of a major achievement, in and of itself.

I'm truly impressed by the in-depth, bi-partisan, and overall stellar investigation conducted by the Commission. This report is a must read. It will give you a true understanding of what happened on 9/11, 2001. 5 Stars!

This book should be called "The Omission Report". it is incredible how those high ranking officials and the Bush Administration could get away with so many lies they told the American People.
The bigger the lie the more people will believe it. Most of the people do not think, they let the news media do the thinking for them and the Commission Report is nothing but a cover up of those lies just like the 'Warren Commission" to cover up one of the greatest crimes in the history of the United States.
I suspected that from the very beginning when on September 12 2001 the Beirut radio station announced that hundreds of Jews did not go to work to the World Trade Center on September 11 2001. And when the U.S. government announced that Osama Bin Laden was behind the terrorist attacks I just did not believe it. Bin Laden did not have the capabilities for an operation this magnitude. Bin Laden had been under surveillance for long time. Every telephone call was monitored and Al-Qaeda has been penetrated by American Intelligence, Israeli intelligence, Pakistani, Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian intelligence, they couldn't have kept secret an operation that required such a degree of organization and sophistication. There is no way they could done it involving high degree of precision, coordination and organization.
This was a tremendously sophisticated operation against the United States. Whoever did it they needed the cooperation of the secret intelligence agencies. They needed schedules, timming, money, know the Country, know the aviation and the help of those agencies in order to cover their tracks.
The 9/11 Commission Report is an insult to human intelligence and to hundreds of witnesses who heard explosions in the basements and bottom part of the towers which indicated that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition.

There's not a whole lot to say on this report as there quite frankly is not a whole lot to the report. This is one of the worst pieces of "investigative committee work" that I have ever seen. They provide NO alternate viewpoints to the questions that so many are asking as to the holes in the official version. The complete collapse of building 7 is not even mentioned, and the report reads like a work of fiction, which in many cases one is compelled to believe that it is. This book and this report would NEVER hold up in a serious investigation in an impartial court of law (of course you would have to go outside of the United States to get that as any judge in this country will tow the government line.) If you can read this book with a straight face and not have numerous questions by REALLY paying attention to the text, then you're a better man than I.

"We think the Commission, in many ways, was set up to fail. Because we had not enough money, we didn"t have enough time, and we have been appointed by the most partisan people in Washington."

-- Governor Thomas Kean, Chairmain of the 9/11 Commission

If ever there was an excuse to burn a book it would have to be this one. A worthless document, filled with lies and distortions.

Please do your own research. This is full of holes, unanswered questions, no depth and an alarmingly high amount of discrepancies. I will not add more to this review as you can see many have already hit bulls eye with what's wrong with this report.

SMELLS LIKE..................................YEAH WE KNOW.


The longest 'joke' in the entire history of human memory on this planet was , according to it's critics launched against American citizens when the hypocritical 9 - 11 Comission Report was unleashed in order to make people feel that the Unveiling isn't taking place and that there is no Consciousness Shift.
When I was a kid I was told that if I told jokes that are too long people wouldn't listen to me.
I tried to experiment with this quote and it turned out to be true to the words of it's commentator.
In turn , people began to speak spontaneously without any ability to control it how the Commssion Report had been coldly calculated and used in order to further frighten people into accepting the tyranny of the insane Bush administration , which has reportedly been replaced by an even more insane so - called Obama administration. Naturally when people love to be ruled by insane dictators , insanity follows.
And a society where more than 20% of the entire population are not sane , judgemental people who think and feel on their own terms and who can reason with relative ease , something very wrong must be going on in the society of that nation.
The so - called war on terror which has turned into a war against humankind per ce , resulted in people losing faith in the Bush administration. Yet the Bush administration itself had no chance of escaping from it's participation in the 9 - 11 attacks. Those among it's fiercest supporters who are at present deceased died as traitors in the memory of those who knew the truth. The current president has been accused of having made numerous attempts to prevent lawsuits being filed by citizens who have been harmed by the terrorist attacks.
And instead of being framed and jailed , the terrorists are allowed to report less than half of the information they have gathered on the consequences of their attack and anyone who was a witness to the 9 - 11 attacks had since and before been blacklisted or considered a potential 'enemy combatant'.
When the Bushes realized that they couldn't hide the truth no matter what , they became suicidical and they have certainly not vanished. They have just lost faith in themselves because they lost so much power.
All the luck they had stolen from lucky people all around them by shaking hands with them , resulted in their then present luck being turned upside down , and people like this are extremely serious and obsessed when it comes to the concept of luck. If they feel that a person is more lucky than they are at something , they try to steal away the luck of that person - and hence all which that person owns.
Hence their hatred for the Fertile Crescent and their ceaseless attacks against it and the ravaging and insane contamination of the Persian Gulf.
I had seen on the Arabian Nights that the same lousy joke shouldn't be repeated , particularly not if it's perpertrator knows how lousy it is - and that was in fact a made for TV movie.
Some people who refuse to accept how seriously I take 9 - 11 today , have attempted to accuse me to have taken the events lightly and mix ET's with the issue. True , a UFO had been seen hovering nearby the towers one year before the towers came crashing down. The entire construction plan behind removing the towers has been exposed on [...] because of 2012 , the year which refuses to allow any important secret to go unnoticed before it arrives and which has the power to demolish any uneccesary realationship , such as the then realationship between the people and the United States government.
After 9 - 11 , everyone realized that a failed state can attack it's citizens and blame them for it , instead of itself , and keep the protectors of those citizens operating in another country rather than home where their defense capabilities are at their strongest.
Hence all the delays in terms of getting American soldiers to return home from the independent countries these people wanted to attack and destroy.
They had no empathy , got publicly exposed as computer programs devoid of any sense of empathy whatsoever , shapeshifting reptilians who had no sense of empathy , until the people lost faith in them. And it took the Internet only two months to do to Barack Obama what investigations into the pre - internet world had done in terms of the Bushes.
I don't have anything to say against Obama myself personally at present as I do not know him personally , but I realize why he is reputed to be headed for turbulent times.
A document that is presented in the form of a joke gets to be over 600 pages long and nobody wants to read it except serious 9 - 11 researchers who have done their homework properly and who know what they're talking about when they state that 9 - 11 was an inside job. This was further revealed in the case of documentaries like Truth and Lies and Zeitgeist.
The face of American society has since changed so much , that the recognition that 9 - 11 was an inside job , is now almost universally taken for granted. It is 100% reasonable and fully justifiable that no balance should be permitted in research such as this - such a balance would not be tolerated anyway and may only be present in a balanced mind of someone doing research into this important matter.
The official 9 - 11 coincidence theory or no conspiracy theory as it's proponents would rather like it to be called , is presented to such an extent it is no wonder the government was so unsucessful in doing whatever it deemed or felt fit or right about it. Thus said the 9 - 11 commission report can be read as a joke , and a good comic book story , and in fact somebody has already done a comic book based on the research conducted by the 9 - 11 comission. This event was , in the words of a friend of mine who had told me so in a private message to me 'a nationwide tragedy'and a bunch of ignorant bureocrats publishes it in the form of a 600+ document which ignores certain key factors in the current and ongoing investigation into the nature of 9 - 11 , and thus shoots itself into it's both feet.
The result is a house built upon sand which sinks so deeply into the sand that it cannot be saved. A lot of people talked about the 9 - 11 commission report being a joke , just like William Cooper talked about the UN being an international joke. And telling jokes is OK - but presenting a joke in a form that makes it go almost entirely unheard and in a manner which makes everyone angry doesn't do any good to the joker. And the joke is in turn on the joker! The 9 - 11 Commission report is absolutely no 'final report on the national commission on terrorist attacks upon the united states (indexed hardcover , authorized edition).
It seems to be a disguised frontal attack against witches and UFO believers done by people who behaved as if they , according to the fiercest critics of the 9 - 11 commission report behaved like children whose were suffering from deleterious delusions of grandeur.
You can make up a story and made it look like fiction , but to the best of your ability try to make it look like good fiction.
The entire inside job itself and false flag operation as it is sometimes dubbed is already covered in other 9 - 11 books , especially by such trusted figures as the author of the 9 - 11 Commission Report; Ommissions and Distortions , David J. Griffin.
The small , scattered and currently laughed at , shrugged off and dismissed and considered as lunatics by psychiatrists and psychologists and even mechanical engineers alike , minority group of those who think that 9 - 11 wasn't an inside job , has degenerated into a religious fringe group which gets scared whenever a hot , serious topic is being debated. This work which I consider to be extremely fraudulent , filled with all kinds of ridiculous , seemingly fraudulent claims of evidence , sounds just as stupid as the current plans to create the NAFTA 'superhighway'. It's in my view the same level of stupidity at work.
I examined the book in Reykjavik when it was unleashed there , and found it not worthy to belong to my book collection.
Long live the memory of the victims of 9 - 11 - may lies , stupidity , plain ignorance and 600 page plus thick jokes never keep the truth from staying out into the open.
If we assume that the 9 - 11 Commission Report is composed decently , then we'd have to ignore all kinds of key elements which are featured in the 9 - 11 Commission Report - Ommissions and Distortions by David J. Griffin and in David Icke's 9 - 11 book Alice In Wonderland and the World Trade Centre Disaster; How the Official Story Is A Monumental Lie.
Bye bye official version of 9 - 11 , here comes the truth!!!!!!!

SMELLS LIKE..................................YEAH WE KNOW.


The longest 'joke' in the entire history of human memory on this planet was , according to it's critics launched against American citizens when the hypocritical 9 - 11 Comission Report was unleashed in order to make people feel that the Unveiling isn't taking place and that there is no Consciousness Shift.
When I was a kid I was told that if I told jokes that are too long people wouldn't listen to me.
I tried to experiment with this quote and it turned out to be true to the words of it's commentator.
In turn , people began to speak spontaneously without any ability to control it how the Commssion Report had been coldly calculated and used in order to further frighten people into accepting the tyranny of the insane Bush administration , which has reportedly been replaced by an even more insane so - called Obama administration. Naturally when people love to be ruled by insane dictators , insanity follows.
And a society where more than 20% of the entire population are not sane , judgemental people who think and feel on their own terms and who can reason with relative ease , something very wrong must be going on in the society of that nation.
The so - called war on terror which has turned into a war against humankind per ce , resulted in people losing faith in the Bush administration. Yet the Bush administration itself had no chance of escaping from it's participation in the 9 - 11 attacks. Those among it's fiercest supporters who are at present deceased died as traitors in the memory of those who knew the truth. The current president has been accused of having made numerous attempts to prevent lawsuits being filed by citizens who have been harmed by the terrorist attacks.
And instead of being framed and jailed , the terrorists are allowed to report less than half of the information they have gathered on the consequences of their attack and anyone who was a witness to the 9 - 11 attacks had since and before been blacklisted or considered a potential 'enemy combatant'.
When the Bushes realized that they couldn't hide the truth no matter what , they became suicidical and they have certainly not vanished. They have just lost faith in themselves because they lost so much power.
All the luck they had stolen from lucky people all around them by shaking hands with them , resulted in their then present luck being turned upside down , and people like this are extremely serious and obsessed when it comes to the concept of luck. If they feel that a person is more lucky than they are at something , they try to steal away the luck of that person - and hence all which that person owns.
Hence their hatred for the Fertile Crescent and their ceaseless attacks against it and the ravaging and insane contamination of the Persian Gulf.
I had seen on the Arabian Nights that the same lousy joke shouldn't be repeated , particularly not if it's perpertrator knows how lousy it is - and that was in fact a made for TV movie.
Some people who refuse to accept how seriously I take 9 - 11 today , have attempted to accuse me to have taken the events lightly and mix ET's with the issue. True , a UFO had been seen hovering nearby the towers one year before the towers came crashing down. The entire construction plan behind removing the towers has been exposed on [...] because of 2012 , the year which refuses to allow any important secret to go unnoticed before it arrives and which has the power to demolish any uneccesary realationship , such as the then realationship between the people and the United States government.
After 9 - 11 , everyone realized that a failed state can attack it's citizens and blame them for it , instead of itself , and keep the protectors of those citizens operating in another country rather than home where their defense capabilities are at their strongest.
Hence all the delays in terms of getting American soldiers to return home from the independent countries these people wanted to attack and destroy.
They had no empathy , got publicly exposed as computer programs devoid of any sense of empathy whatsoever , shapeshifting reptilians who had no sense of empathy , until the people lost faith in them. And it took the Internet only two months to do to Barack Obama that investigations into the pre - internet world had done in terms of the Bushes. While it would
take 20 years to investigate the Bushes criminally it would only take 2 months to do the same to the Obama family and to get them exposed between october and december , before and after the election.
I don't have anything to say against Obama myself personally at present as I do not know him personally , but I realize why he is reputed to be headed for turbulent times.
A document that is presented in the form of a joke gets to be over 600 pages long and nobody wants to read it except serious 9 - 11 researchers who have done their homework properly and who know what they're talking about when they state that 9 - 11 was an inside job. This was further revealed in the case of documentaries like Truth and Lies and Zeitgeist.
The face of American society has since changed so much , that the recognition that 9 - 11 was an inside job , is now almost universally taken for granted. It is 100% reasonable and fully justifiable that no balance should be permitted in research such as this - such a balance would not be tolerated anyway and may only be present in a balanced mind of someone doing research into this important matter.
The official 9 - 11 coincidence theory or no conspiracy theory as it's proponents would rather like it to be called , is presented to such an extent it is no wonder the government was so unsucessful in doing whatever it deemed or felt fit or right about it. Thus said the 9 - 11 commission report can be read as a joke , and a good comic book story , and in fact somebody has already done a comic book based on the research conducted by the 9 - 11 comission. This event was , in the words of a friend of mine who had told me so in a private message to me 'a nationwide tragedy'and a bunch of ignorant bureocrats publishes it in the form of a 600+ document which ignores certain key factors in the current and ongoing investigation into the nature of 9 - 11 , and thus shoots itself into it's both feet.
The result is a house built upon sand which sinks so deeply into the sand that it cannot be saved. A lot of people talked about the 9 - 11 commission report being a joke , just like William Cooper talked about the UN being an international joke. And telling jokes is OK - but presenting a joke in a form that makes it go almost entirely unheard and in a manner which makes everyone angry doesn't do any good to the joker. And the joke is in turn on the joker! The 9 - 11 Commission report is absolutely no 'final report on the national commission on terrorist attacks upon the united states (indexed hardcover , authorized edition).
It seems to be a disguised frontal attack against witches and UFO believers done by people who behaved as if they , according to the fiercest critics of the 9 - 11 commission report behaved like children whose were suffering from deleterious delusions of grandeur.
You can make up a story and made it look like fiction , but to the best of your ability try to make it look like good fiction.
The entire inside job itself and false flag operation as it is sometimes dubbed is already covered in other 9 - 11 books , especially by such trusted figures as the author of the 9 - 11 Commission Report; Ommissions and Distortions , David J. Griffin.
The small , scattered and currently laughed at , shrugged off and dismissed and considered as lunatics by psychiatrists and psychologists and even mechanical engineers alike , minority group of those who think that 9 - 11 wasn't an inside job , has degenerated into a religious fringe group which gets scared whenever a hot , serious topic is being debated. This work which I consider to be extremely fraudulent , filled with all kinds of ridiculous , seemingly fraudulent claims of evidence , sounds just as stupid as the current plans to create the NAFTA 'superhighway'. It's in my view the same level of stupidity at work.
I examined the book in Reykjavik when it was unleashed there , and found it not worthy to belong to my book collection.
Long live the memory of the victims of 9 - 11 - may lies , stupidity , plain ignorance and 600 page plus thick jokes never keep the truth from staying out into the open.
If we assume that the 9 - 11 Commission Report is composed decently , then we'd have to ignore all kinds of key elements which are featured in the 9 - 11 Commission Report - Ommissions and Distortions by David J. Griffin and in David Icke's 9 - 11 book Alice In Wonderland and the World Trade Centre Disaster; How the Official Story Is A Monumental Lie.
Bye bye official version of 9 - 11 , here comes the truth!!!!!!!

Not since the Warren Commission has an official investigatory body so thoroughly ignored its professed mission to expose the truth and packaged so little critical thinking with so much extraneata. As I read the Commission Report, the refrain that kept recurring was, "They're missing the point!" The entire story supports a lame conspiracy theory that 19 crazed Muslims tricked American defenses and carried out one of the most flawless operation's in history; it's beyond belief. The Commission completely ignores the abundant evidence that calls their claims into question--the same technique the Warren Commission used decades ago.

A professional whitewash!

This book would not be if it were not for the countless patriots and family members of the victims who begged and begged for an investigation, instead of straw-man claims and repetitive allegations by the Bush Administration and the cabinet of puppets.
When Bush and Cheney met with the commission, they were not under oath, NO press or transcript was allowed, NO family members, and no one in the commission was allowed to modify or question any conclusions made.
This is a slap in the face and wake up call to America that your government does not give a damn about you, and 9/11 was an inside job.
What does the commission say happened with WTC7?
Nothing. Not a word. Not even in a bibliography.
They don't even question whether Al-Qaeda was responsible or not.
They don't tell you that the CIA funded the terrorist organization in 89.
They don't tell you Osama Bin Laden went under the CIA name Tim Osmand.
Kean and others on-record admitted "The commission was set to fail".
And that they accomplished. It's sick.
THIS is THE conspiracy theory for 9/11.
Osama Bin Laden, on the FBI's most wanted list, under his crimes he is wanted for, 9/11 is NOT one of them, because "There is no hard evidence linking Bin Laden to the September 11th Attacks".
Pure bull**** and psychological warfare on the American people.
And they still love the government.
wow.

I have no comment about the content. But the production of this Kindle book is downright terrible.

I know you can't expect much for a buck. On the other hand, the guys who made the 35 cents or whatever Amazon pays off this didn't earn it. The text was not cleaned up at all, leaving misplaced punctuation, poor line spacing on practically every sentence, mangling the text so badly it is almost unreadable.

If there is another Kindle version of this book around, I'd choose it even if it cost a tad more.

Hi. You don't know me. I'm a famous person. You just don't know that yet because I haven't had the correct people write my biography yet. Well, I finally found those people. They are the authors of the official "9/11 Commission Report", first published in 2004 as THE official story of what happened that day in 2001. They are perfect for the job. Their ability to highlight information favorable to an official story, while keeping out or suppressing any details or evidence that might contradict said story, is surpassed by none. I plan on having my agent (once I find one) call them up first thing tomorrow morning.

I actually read this book a few years ago, when I was reading EVERYTHING about 9/11 that I could get my hands on. I had no intention of writing a review of it on Amazon until today, when I noticed David Ray Griffin himself wrote a review of it. (For those who don't know Mr. Griffin, he has written something like six separate books on the events that day that highlight the massive inconsistencies with the official story.) Call me a groupie if you must (which would be slightly less "fishy" than calling me a grouper) . . . but having read most of his works and then now reading his review here, I became inspired to write my own review of it.

This book is truly an exhausting read. Over 600 pages of text and notes. The most striking thing about that fact is how much ISN'T in here. For something that was supposed to be a "comprehensive" report that answered "all" questions, there sure are a lot of things missing. For instance, the authors treated the nasty little issue of WTC Building 7 collapsing at free fall speed (with little damage to it) by . . . um . . . not even mentioning it. I mean, they don't even give it a passing "howdya do?". Completely missing.

Not to be outdone by themselves, though, they leave out a whole bunch of other necessary evidence, such as firefighter and eyewitness testimony about explosions heard within the Twin Towers, the insider trading on the stock market that indicated prior knowledge (except for mentioning it in a small endnote), the close ties of the Bush family and the bin Laden family, the ties of Marvin Bush with the security companies for the WTC and Dulles International Airport, Dick Cheney's role in possible stand-down orders, and various important pieces of structural evidence related to the Twin Towers. The list goes on. There is an actual legal term that describes this: it's called "Suppression Of Evidence". Furthermore, the authors seriously contradict themselves and earlier official stories on more than one occasion, the most notable being the timeline of events and the role of NORAD. How can anyone think this book constitutes a comprehensive report of all the evidence for the largest attack on US soil?

Most people complain about not being able to give some product on Amazon a review with no stars whatsoever, relegated to settling for at least one star. Not me. I think this book DESERVES at least one star. I give the authors praise for concocting this transparent piece of whitewash. I mean, can you imagine what it must have been like in the room when they put this nonsense together? Ah, to be the proverbial fly on the wall. Endless entertainment, I'm sure. But despite my negative review, I WANT you to read this book. PLEASE read it. Then read anything about 9/11 written by David Ray Griffin, especially his first three books, where he expertly dissects the official story and raises much-needed questions about who might really be responsible. (I wrote a review of his very first book on the subject, "The New Pearl Harbor", back in 2005.) Watch the documentaries called "Loose Change" and "Zeitgeist". Educate yourselves. And remember . . . hundreds of thousands of civilians have died in Iraq and Afghanistan BECAUSE you have believed the official story.

So you see . . . you don't know me. But you will. I'm gonna have these guys write my biography. You will soon know me as the man who ended poverty, found the cures for cancer and AIDS, won the Heisman Trophy, discovered the Fountain of Youth, scaled Mt. Everest in the winter, became lifelong drinking buddies with a great white shark, pitched the first ever no-hitter SEASON, wrote the most beautiful piece of music since Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and single-handedly brought lasting peace to the Middle East.

Anyone want the movie rights?

It was terrorererrists! They did it! We will find them in their caves!.

George Bush is the best president ever in the Umited Sates!

In order to fully understand the purpose of this "report" or carefully constructed farce, please research the driving force behind its contents - Philip Zelikow.

One of Zelidows thesis in college was about creating public myths or the public presumptions about contemporary history.

Zelikow noted in his own words, that "contemporary" history is "defined functionally by those critical people and events that go into forming the public's presumptions about its immediate past. The idea of 'public presumption'," he explained, "is akin to William McNeill's notion of 'public myth' but without the negative implication sometimes invoked by the word 'myth.' Such presumptions are beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community." I copied and pasted that from another site, here is a direct link - [...] Page 5 of that document.

Zelikow also co-wrote a book with his close friend Condoleezza Rice (former National Security Advisor under Bush) entitled "Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft".

Zelikow was also entrusted by Rice the task of rewriting America's national security strategy, which became "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America". Published in September of 2002, this document contains the basic elements of the Bush Doctrine - the policy that the United States had the right to aggressively secure itself from countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups, which was used to justify the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and later the policy of preemptive war with regimes that represented a potential or perceived threat to the security of the United States.

Please do your own research on Zelikow and all of the events of 9/11.

According to Wikipedia:

The commission was criticized for significant alleged conflicts of interest on the part of commissioners and staff. Further, the commission's report has been the subject of much criticism by both the commissioners themselves and by others.

The commission members were appointed by George W. Bush as well as Congress, which led to the criticism that it was not a commission truly independent from the U.S. government whose actions it was supposed to review. The commission stated in its report that "[their] aim has not been to assign individual blame," a judgment which some critics believed would obscure the facts of the matter in a nod to consensus politics.

In addition, commissioners believed that key agencies of the U.S. government, including The Pentagon, the FAA and NORAD were deliberately deceiving them, and that the CIA was deliberately impeding the work of the commission. On the whole, the chairmen of the commission believed the commission was set up to fail.

First must I say, GOD BLESS AMERICA!

And to anyone who believes in any conspiracies is of the Devil! The United States was attacked by terrorists who hijacked planes, the News says so! If it wasn't true, why would the government tell us? They can't lie to their people, that would be a lack of integrity and we all know our government has been very faithful to the people.

And to anyone who has any doubts about any events that happen, just read this book; its about as accurate as the Holy Bible. and we all know that EVERYTHING in the bible is correct.

Finally, the truth is out. America was indeed victim to such a tragic set of events. Sept 11 2001 was a terrible day for America, and I'm honored to be an American.

It's shocking to read the user reviews and realize that many of these individuals had not done a minute worth of research themselves. It's very easy to pick up a book, with no foreknowledge of any sort, and take all the "facts" for granted. An interesting thing occurs with this book and the reader, when you dissect the simplest of fragments of evidence, and put them in retrospect.

I'll admit, I may differ from an average reader of this book in the sense that I would not approach it casually, nor openly. At the very beginning, the book lists details of the "hijackers" check-ins into the airport. Very random details are given, indeed most of the information is superfluous. A fundamental point that the book fails to mention is that nearly half of the hijackers have been found in Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan, or Iran, and none have a spec of history in connection with any terrorist organization. But the most disgusting thing about the fact is, that if these hijackers were on those planes, and if the planes had collided and exploded upon impact with the towers, than, undeniably, they should all be deceased. How is it then, that these hijackers can be traced halfway across the world?

My last example for this review is the alleged stabbings of some passengers and attendants in the plane. An audio recording, released by the FBI to the families of the deceased, presents the voice of Betty Ong, explaining that she, and 2 other of fellow employees had been stabbed and could not enter the cockpit. What is my argument? A young women, and two of her friends had been stabbed. The situation in the plane is hostile, but she, is extremely, frighteningly, and observably casual, but stumbling with uncertainty. As tough as an individual may be, no one would sound as if he is reading off a script when making an emergency call about being stabbed, presumably bleeding to death. Search the recording for yourself.

We have a powerful search tool in our homes; the computer. Research is quick and simple. Even in the very beginning of the book, these and other important uncertainties surface. I suggest for any reader of this book to also buy "911 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions." In this way, you will be able to judge between the truths and half truths.
2/5.

The report was censored & omits anything the government does not want you to know. Even the co-chair of the commission admits that it's full of lies.

If you want to read this fictional account of what happened on 9/11, why buy the book? You can download the entire report for free.

The formatting is incorrect for the Kindle Edition. Paragraph spacing is off and there are missing spaces between sentences on every single page.

Spaces are missing between sentances, sometimes appearing in the middle of words. Footnotes appear in the middle of sentances, and titles or chapter heading are placed ramdomly throughout the text. The formatting problems are indicative that quality is not an issue for this publisher (MobileReference.)

Being new to the whole "Conspiracy theory" possibility regarding 9/11, I thought I would disspell some of the myths regarding 9/11 by reading this book. I guess I was wrong for attempting to do so. First, and probably most blatant is that WTC7 isn't even mentioned in the book. Yeah, you heard right, the only steel framed structure in the history of the world to come down exclusively by "fire and debris falling from WTC1" wasn't even mentioned, which makes you think...why? Secondly, the hi-jackers of the flights are named with full knowledge that BBC and ABC both had articles on their websites showing 6 out of these 19 men alive. Thirdly and finally, it is assumed that a plane hit the Pentagon, however there is no video or other positive identification images available to the public to confirm such an act took place as described. 5 frames were released from a security cam in 2006. All I have to say is that if that is conclusive that a plane hit the Pentagon, then Americans are as dumb as everyone else says we are. I could go on and on with other examples, but I thought I would keep it brief.

2004's "The 9/11 Commission Report" is the product of an extensive and exhaustive bipartisan investigation into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It captures the facts, timelines, and backstory as it was known to that point in time, and does so in a remarkably readable fashion. It is a tremendous unclassified resource on both the events of 9/11 and the failure of the U.S. Government to detect and defeat an unprecented terrorist attack on the U.S. Homeland.

The book is divided into a series of chapters, detailing the events of 9/11 before backtracking to discuss at length the looming threat of militant Muslim terrorism as exemplified by al-Qaeda. The report discusses the evolution of U.S. counterterrorism policy in response to the building threat from al-Qaeda, and why it was ineffective in defeating the "Planes Plot." Finally, the report offers recommendations on how to do better next time.

Inevitably, the 9/11 Commission Report is now a little dated. Our better acquaintance with al-Qaeda, based on years of intelligence work and combat in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other locations, has filled in some of our missing knowledge on that organization, as have al-Qaeda's own media releases. The recommendations for fixes to the workings and interactions of the intelligence and law enforcement communities have been implemented in whole or part. Institutional inertia and the competing requirements of supporting the ongoing global war on terrorism have detracted from what the Commission may have envisioned as an endstate for the overall counterterrorism community.

Perhaps also inevitably, the intensely partisan nature of the political debate over the prosecution of the global war on terrorism has kept controversial the events of 9/11. "The 9/11 Commission Report" is highly recommended as a necessary addition to that debate, and as a tremendous tool for future historians.

2004's "The 9/11 Commission Report" is the product of an extensive and exhaustive bipartisan investigation into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It captures the facts, timelines, and backstory as it was known to that point in time, and does so in a remarkably readable fashion. It is a tremendous unclassified resource on both the events of 9/11 and the failure of the U.S. Government to detect and defeat an unprecented terrorist attack on the U.S. Homeland.

The book is divided into a series of chapters, detailing the events of 9/11 before backtracking to discuss at length the looming threat of militant Muslim terrorism as exemplified by al-Qaeda. The report discusses the evolution of U.S. counterterrorism policy in response to the building threat from al-Qaeda, and why it was ineffective in defeating the "Planes Plot." Finally, the report offers recommendations on how to do better next time.

Inevitably, the 9/11 Commission Report is now a little dated. Our better acquaintance with al-Qaeda, based on years of intelligence work and combat in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other locations, has filled in some of our missing knowledge on that organization, as have al-Qaeda's own media releases. The recommendations for fixes to the workings and interactions of the intelligence and law enforcement communities have been implemented in whole or part. Institutional inertia and the competing requirements of supporting the ongoing global war on terrorism have detracted from what the Commission may have envisioned as an endstate for the overall counterterrorism community.

Perhaps also inevitably, the intensely partisan nature of the political debate over the prosecution of the global war on terrorism, along with the fascination in some quarters with a variety of exotic conspiracy theories, have kept controversial the events of 9/11. "The 9/11 Commission Report" is highly recommended as a cure to some of that partisan debate and controversy, and as a tremendous tool for future historians.

Philip Zelikow often defends illegality in the quest of empire, so its no surprise that Philip Zelikow's 911 Commission report, which he authored, is a mythological masterpiece, a complete web of lies, based upon lies, with virtually all citations in the footnotes being nothing more than bare allegations made in top secret "interviews". I suppose that "interview" means "waterboarding", and as allah knows, you can get anybody to say anything when they think you're drowning them.

When I read the "9/11 Commission Report", I did something few people did. Every time I saw a footnote, I went to the back and read the footnote to see if it supported the facts claimed in the text. Sometimes the footnote was peripherally related - it was "sorta" relevant, but many times the footnote simply did not support the key "fact" being claimed in the text. This was done in many ways. One way it is done is by making a factual claim in the text, along with other statements irrelevant to the main fact, and when you look at the footnotes, the factual claims aren't referenced at all, instead the footnote relates only the irrelevant text. The second way Zelikow lies in his footnotes is by making one claim in the sentence or paragraph, and then the footnote says something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. For example, on page 86 - Zelikow (trying to revise history and ignore things like, well, the Iran Contra scandal) makes the statement that "The CIA's number one customer is the president of the United States, who also has the authority to direct it to conduct covert operations." It cites footnote 64. When you turn to page 477 and read footnote 64, the cite is to United States Code Section 413, WHICH IS ABOUT CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT TO FORCE THE PRESIDENT TO REVEAL ILLEGAL ACTIVITY. Whaa? It's a bald faced lie to claim Section 413 stands for presidential authority to conduct covert ops.

And on and on and on. Zelikow fills the footnotes with unverifiable references and irrelevant references, I suppose to make it "look scholarly". It's almost as if he had Ann Coulter making his footnotes. "Facts" in text are supported by footnotes which are anything but "facts", such as popular books (usually right wing) written after 9/11, top-secret "interviews" which can't be cross-checked, citations to non-public (uh, do I mean secret?) documents, or cites to documents that the average person cannot find without a lot of work. For example, my handwritten notes regarding the footnotes on page 477 of the 9/11 Commission Report shows that of the "facts" alleged on page 86: 9 are to "official reports"; 9 are to "pop literature"; 25 are from secret "interviews"; 5 are cites to "laws or statutes" (and I've already shown how Section 413 was falsely attributed); 5 are to "executive orders" (not law, in my opinion, but presidential "decrees" from King George), and only 3 were from "testimony" - which I suppose means sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury (but that might not be true - don't forget that King George and Dick Cheney refused to give sworn testimony and instead were interviewed together by the commission behind closed doors, and nobody from the commission was allowed to take notes or record the interview). That means that only 6 percent of the co-called "facts" referenced on page 477 were based on sworn testimony, and almost all would be inadmissible in court since it violates the "best evidence" rule. Perhaps a court would allow more in - but the point is made - the "facts" in the 9/11 Commission report are thinly supported - the book is a sham.

Philip Zelikow, as the director of the 9/11 Commission (or gatekeeper) was the actual author of almost all of the 9/11 Report. He is more likely a perp than a unbiased party, since, he was a security advisor to Condi Rice regarding Al Queada and as such, should have been INVESTIGATED for his failures, not put in charge of the investigation. Other oddities abound. Zelikow is a student and expert on "mythology" (his thesis in college was on creating public myths). Zelikow was an administration insider whose area of expertise is the creation and maintenance of "public myths" thought to be true, even if not actually true. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_D._Zelikow
We all know that he controlled what the Commission did and did not analyze, then limited the scope of the Commission's inquiry so that the overwhelming majority of questions about 9/11 remained unasked (see http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_D._Zelikow
and http://911blogger.com/node/3418 ). Zelikow is arguably the single most responsible person in covering up the truth about 9/11. Zelikow is believed to be the principal author of the final drafts, and its his horribly crappy fiction that makes it "read like a thriller". Yah Zelikow, It can't be ignored: your fiction is abysmal, "it was a dark and stormy night" kind of crap. But that's what's so disturbing - somebody is putting a fictitious spin on what should be a "REPORT" - so it becomes a "STORY" - actually, the 9/11 Commission Report is more than a story - it's an attempt at modern myth building. From the spooky scary Islam guys to the bizarre physics lessons on tower collapse to the huge section which tells us "what to do in the future" (which should be called the "Project for a New Century Lite"), the entire book is crafted with the end in sight: the glorious heroic saga of a sleeping giant savagly blind sided, and the NYPD and FDNY heros who died so you and I can be free.

Now don't get me wrong - I don't know what happened on 9/11, but you won't find anything in this book but a bizarre fantasy-land story - which sounds a lot like a report a cop writes when he's trying to cover his tracks...

Zelikow, as a virtual a member of Bush's cabinet, was horribly conflicted and can't be trusted. Not only was he talking to Karl Rove throughout the Commission investigation, but he was also giving talks about catastrophic terrorism BEFORE the 9/11 attacks. Zelikow also wrote, in "Foreign Affairs", pub. Nov-Dec 1998, an article called "Catastrophic Terrorism: Imagining the Transformative Event" - One "Transformative event" he discussed therein was the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, which he went on to "imagine" what would have happened had it succeeded, which sounds suspiciously like what actually did happen. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that kind of premeditation typically seen as an important clue which prosecutors use to identify criminals? And this guy is the key man writing the 9/11 report? And people wonder why so many Americans believe in the 9/11 truth movement.
See, as well:
http://free71.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/self-inflicted-wound-911-attacks-and-zelikow/
And later, despite blockbuster sales for the 9/11 report, Zelikow later told the Washington Post he was alarmed by the concurrent spread of "conspiracy theories" about the attacks, which he described as pathogens which would destroy his carefully crafted myth:
"Our worry is when things become infectious, as happened with the [John F. Kennedy] assassination," Zelikow says. "Then this stuff can be deeply corrosive to public understanding. You can get where the bacteria can sicken the larger body." (1)
To "Dr." Zelikow, the truth is bacteria. And if you read the 9/11 Commission report, and then do some research, you'll see that the "bacteria" are winning. The "truthers" make some very good points regarding lies about time lines, and the bizarre fact that the ones who supposedly screwed up on 9/11 (if you believe the Report) all got promoted. Something very odd here.

The fruit from this poisonous tree has spread far. The "War on Terror," er, I mean on Afghanistan, oh, I meant Iraq...or is it now Iran? Pentagon black ops budgets and 3.1 trillion missing, Space commands move to encircle the world with killer satellites, the Patriot Act gutting the constitution, contracts awarded to Halliburton to build detention campss, surveillance society and the Telecom Scandal, SPP and Nafta, Cafta, etc. It all answers the question about who would have done it, and what they had to gain. It's empire boys and girls. Corporatist empire. That's who benefitted from 9/11 by billions and billions of dollars. My guess? Al quaeda is a false front enemy created by the CIA to fill the "global enemy gap" created after the Berlin wall fell down. A nameless, faceless, endless global boogy man army. And you kids fell for it.

As David R. Griffin said this was meant to be a thorough report, but now seeing it is a 568 page 'book' that starts with..

"TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States..."

and going through the Table of Contents that reads like a university assignment done the night before, I don't need to read it to know it is a blatant coverup.

I mean that opening sentence they are kidding right? They have got to be kidding - "The night was sultry"

If this was indeed a serious investigation it would have started on September 12th, been given an unlimited budget and access to people (under oath) & information (uncensored), and produced a ~20,000 page report covering in minute detail what went wrong and why, and what is changing to ensure it never happens again. Not a coffee table book for a bit of bed-time reading. Geez even Lewinksy got a budget of $40 million dollars to determine if she blew the president. This investigation of the most monumental and devastating attack on the heart of America which finally started 441 days afterwards was originally budgeted a paltry $3 million dollars.

I don't need to read this 'book' to remind me of this quote by Bill Hicks..

"Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their ____ing skulls together and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!"

This is the definitive summary account of the attacks on 9/11, Al Qaeda's activities prior to 9/11, the U.S. government's response to Al Qaeda and recommendations moving forward.

First, echoing many reviewers--this is one of the most well written and readable government reports in history. The mass of facts are presented logically and flow smoothly. Secondly, the report is written fairly and in a bipartisan way (as opposed to the televised portions of the 9/11 Commission which seemed bitterly partisan and grandstanding). If you want to know the facts about 9/11 to the best of our knowledge, this is a must read (along with "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright). Reading the account of the events of September 11, 2001, even over 6 years later, still sent chills down my spine. After reading this, I also recommend seeing the movie "United 93," about the flight that fought back.

A very interesting read indeed. Forget the conspiracy theorists, they would actually want you to believe that everyone in Washington is in on the coverup. Do you realize how hard it would be to coverup something of this magnitude if 20 people knew about it much less the number the conspiracy theorists would have you believe? So what happened? Bush call all the committee members into the oval office and ask them "Can you guys keep a secret?" Get real. Interesting book, the timelines add substance to it. The breakdown of communication and lack of preperation that day are mind numbing and this book helps fill in the why? factor. Read it for yourself then decide. It is definitely worth the [...] pricetag.

The purpose of the 9-11 report is to "investigate the 'facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001'." In pursuing this objective, the 9-11 Commission sought to be "independent, impartial, thorough, and nonpartisan." The Commission states that its
purpose is not to assign individual blame, and indeed, it doesn't. It is a unique piece of literature, historical yet not far enough removed from the actual events to really call it history in the traditional sense. It's not written for entertainment, yet it is fascinating nonetheless: the report almost reads like a spy novel as it traces the movement of the 9-11 conspirators, where they traveled, how they slipped in and out of the country, and how close some of them got to being captured. It gives you insights on how our government does, and doesn't, work, and describes how the numerous government agencies interact and, more often than not, fail to interact. It seeks to find the reasons why the attack succeeded, blaming everyone and no one, it seems, in the process. The 9-11 report leaves no doubt that it was written by a bi-partisan commission that refuses to lay the blame on individuals but instead lays it on institutions and processes.

The first chapter describes what happened in the air that morning, and from there, the report discusses the rise of Bin-Laden and Al Qaeda, the rise of counterterrorism activities in the US (touching on several departments, including the CIA and FBI), and on to how the 9-11 commission believes the attacks were planned and carried out. It then covers the actual events of September 11, 2001, describing in some detail how the first-responders handled this crisis and some of the shortcomings they had to deal with. Finally, the book addresses the ensuing war in Afghanistan (briefly) and makes recommendations on global strategy and reorganization within the US Government, esp. in the intelligence community. Throughout the report, the commission shoots down a number of rumors that were popular during the writing of the book, such as members of the Saudi family leaving the country while all flights were grounded, and one of the terrorists (Mohamed Atta) meeting with an Iraqi diplomat in Prague.

What I found particularly disturbing in this book was how easy the 9-11 terrorists entered and exited the country, and how easy it was for them to find people to assist them in finding a place to live, worship, etc.. I was also amazed at how easily money flowed from Al Qaeda to the 9-11 conspirators, and even more amazed at how easily they could have been caught yet weren't.

One of the biggest assets within the 9-11 report is also its biggest drawback: the book has hundreds of footnotes, and while most of these simply identify a source (say, a book or a person interviewed), many provide additional information about the topic discussed in the text. Many of these latter types of footnotes, I felt, needed to be in the body of
the main text and not hidden in the back of the book.

Recommendation: Highly recommended if you have any interest at all in knowing what happened before, during, and after September 11, 2001.

As it is non fiction catagory it would be hard to comment though after reading the report I now would reclassify it as fictional account on how kerosene can weaken 200,000 tons of construction steel to the point that the buildings collapsed! Also totally missing is any explanation why WTC7 came down.

Or any explanation where are the engines in the Pentagon attack?

Unfortunately, I am not sure how else to describe the report other than... well... garbage. I hate to say it but there are too many holes and it does not hold up to scrutiny.

Although it had a good story to tell and made popular by the government and media, it is just that- a story that does not hold up to the facts. I was hoping that it would provide more insight into the events on 9/11 but it left me asking all kinds of questions especially about WTC7, evidence of thermite, omitted testimony of eyewitnesses, and the testimony discrepancies between Cheney and Mieta.

I am deeply disappointed that I wasted my money on this. I gave it 2 stars because it did a least grab my attention and provided some good references in the back.

I'd better declare first that I'm not a conspiracy theorist (I favour cock-up theory any day) and I work in the airline business.

I also have a friend who works for United who lost colleagues that day.
Or maybe she's another part of the Neo-Con-Judo-Zionist conspiracy and she's lying to me. A tad unlikely methinks - she's a Buddhist from Taiwan.

50 tonnes of fuel + 70 tonnes of aircraft travelling at ca.450mph.
You don't need a degree in Engineering to work out what will happen:

From the first chapter reading the accounts of what happened to each individual flight and seeing the total confusion between ATC, the FAA, NORAD etc is frightening. They didn't know what to do, they didn't know what was happening. With transponders turned off, it was impossible to track those aircraft accurately. Personally I've flown enough jumpseat trips that it still fills me with dread to think what was happening up front.

Later chapters on Bin-Laden and the rise of Al-Qaeda and Muslim extremism (mainly due to their corrupt self-serving leaders) are well presented.
Richard A. Clark's efforts to thwart Al-Qaeada are also explained.

Buy the book, it's a good read. Though I still can't believe they didn't put an Index in it.

Sadly, to digress a little, the unjustified invasion of Iraq subsequently has been a complete disaster. Saddam ran a secular society - you could drink alcohol and socialise with women. He was the Arab Caligula, only interested in himself and his personal empire. But Saddam had nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks. Nothing. So much goodwill towards the US has been lost due to Iraq and the Neo-Con (not my Taiwanese friend .-)) led invasion.

As for the Conspiracy theorists on this page, to be honest I'm quite shocked when I found this review page. I've honestly never read so many self-serving attempts to cling to straws in my life, like this "Loose-Change" stuff. It's an insult to those who died that day. And I'm not American!

Listen, do you really really think a government could pull off a stunt like this?
Have you ever been to the Middle East? Have you ever listened to the hatred there is towards the USA? Albeit very often from the same people who tell you next sentence they have a relative in New York and want to go and join them!

The seeds of 9-11 were sown years ago. Yes, of course there are inaccuracies (there always are in disaster reporting) but there is no conspiracy.

I know no conspiracy theorists in Air Traffic Control or the airline business. Get real - it happened.

And sadly many of us in Europe thought "no surprise it was US Domestic flights, US Airport security is a total farce".

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