Lee Hamilton: The 9/11 Commission's Mandate Was "To Tell The Story Of 9/11"
I stumbled across this article from the Statesman Journal, and saw what Lee Hamilton was passing off as the mandate for the 9/11 Commission.
He states:
We had two mandates. One was to tell the story of 9/11, and I think we did that reasonably well. The story that we told has stood up and will certainly become the starting point for anybody who investigates 9/11.
As you can see on the 9/11 Commission's very own website, their mandate was to:
"provide a “full and complete accounting” of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and recommendations as to how to prevent such attacks in the future."
If the "story" that the 9/11 Commission told us was only the "starting point", then how can it be a "Full and Complete Accounting" of the attacks of September 11th?
At first, I was angry with Mr. Hamilton for not telling us the truth about what their mandate was.
Then, it occurred to me. He wasn't lying.
Philip Zelikow, a man who's expertise is "the creation and maintenance of, in his words, “public myths” or “public presumptions” was in charge of the 9/11 Commission.
Knowing that, I have little doubt that what we were told about 9/11 was, in fact, a "story."
The families, the sick first responders, the soldiers deployed in the Middle East, the innocent civilians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the people of the world deserve better than a "story".
They deserve the truth.
I stumbled across this article from the Statesman Journal, and saw what Lee Hamilton was passing off as the mandate for the 9/11 Commission.
He states:
We had two mandates. One was to tell the story of 9/11, and I think we did that reasonably well. The story that we told has stood up and will certainly become the starting point for anybody who investigates 9/11.
As you can see on the 9/11 Commission's very own website, their mandate was to:
"provide a “full and complete accounting” of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and recommendations as to how to prevent such attacks in the future."
If the "story" that the 9/11 Commission told us was only the "starting point", then how can it be a "Full and Complete Accounting" of the attacks of September 11th?
At first, I was angry with Mr. Hamilton for not telling us the truth about what their mandate was.
Then, it occurred to me. He wasn't lying.
Philip Zelikow, a man who's expertise is "the creation and maintenance of, in his words, “public myths” or “public presumptions” was in charge of the 9/11 Commission.
Knowing that, I have little doubt that what we were told about 9/11 was, in fact, a "story."
The families, the sick first responders, the soldiers deployed in the Middle East, the innocent civilians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the people of the world deserve better than a "story".
They deserve the truth.