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11-08-2006, 08:32 PM
Critics Want Full Report Of 9/11 Panel
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=FA0B15F93C5E0C728DDDAB0894DD404482
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: February 11, 2005
The Bush administration came under pressure on Thursday to make public the full classified version of a report from the 9/11 commission that is critical of the government's failure to heed aviation threats before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Former members of the commission, victims' families, open-government advocates and a leading Democrat called on the administration to release the entire report on aviation problems surrounding the attacks.
The commission completed the report in August, and commission members said the administration blocked their efforts to release the report.
The administration delivered a declassified version of the report to the National Archives two weeks ago with numerous deletions of material it considered too sensitive for the public to see.
Commissioners from the 9/11 panel said they believed that the entire report should be public.
''We want this report declassified, and we hope the government will work to get it out as soon as possible,'' Al Felzenberg, who was the spokesman for the commission, said.
Administration officials said declassifying the report had been slowed by the fact that the commission no longer existed and that it was unclear who was authorized to work on the declassification.
The commission said several members and staff members who maintained security clearances were in a position to work on the declassification.
In a letter on Thursday, Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York, asked that the report be made public and called for a Congressional hearing into whether the administration had ''misused the classification process'' to withhold it.
The letter, responding to an article on Thursday in The New York Times reporting the existence of the commission report, questioned whether the administration had kept the report secret for political reasons ''until after the November elections.''
Administration officials denied that.
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=FA0B15F93C5E0C728DDDAB0894DD404482
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: February 11, 2005
The Bush administration came under pressure on Thursday to make public the full classified version of a report from the 9/11 commission that is critical of the government's failure to heed aviation threats before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Former members of the commission, victims' families, open-government advocates and a leading Democrat called on the administration to release the entire report on aviation problems surrounding the attacks.
The commission completed the report in August, and commission members said the administration blocked their efforts to release the report.
The administration delivered a declassified version of the report to the National Archives two weeks ago with numerous deletions of material it considered too sensitive for the public to see.
Commissioners from the 9/11 panel said they believed that the entire report should be public.
''We want this report declassified, and we hope the government will work to get it out as soon as possible,'' Al Felzenberg, who was the spokesman for the commission, said.
Administration officials said declassifying the report had been slowed by the fact that the commission no longer existed and that it was unclear who was authorized to work on the declassification.
The commission said several members and staff members who maintained security clearances were in a position to work on the declassification.
In a letter on Thursday, Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York, asked that the report be made public and called for a Congressional hearing into whether the administration had ''misused the classification process'' to withhold it.
The letter, responding to an article on Thursday in The New York Times reporting the existence of the commission report, questioned whether the administration had kept the report secret for political reasons ''until after the November elections.''
Administration officials denied that.