9/11 Commission Report
Released July 22, 2004 The independent, bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States was established by Congress in 2002 to investigate the events of and circumstances surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The panel heard from members of the Clinton and Bush administrations, New York City emergency personnel and victims' families. Their final report was released on July 22, 2004. It is available below in PDF format. Complete 9/11 Commission Report (7.4 MB) Executive Summary (5.9 MB) Report by Chapter Contents, List of Illustrations and Tables, Members, and Staff (233 KB) Preface (67 KB) Chapter 1: "We Have Some Planes" (952 KB) Chapter 2: The Foundation of the New Terrorism (1.44 MB) Chapter 3: Counterterrorism Evolves (188 KB) Chapter 4: Responses to al Qaeda's Initial Assaults (185 KB) Chapter 5: Al Qaeda Aims at the American Homeland (312 KB) Chapter 6: From Threat to Threat (209 KB) Chapter 7: The Attack Looms (949 KB) Chapter 8: "The System Was Blinking Red" (146 KB) Chapter 9: Heroism and Horror (2.3 MB) Chapter 10: Wartime (109 KB) Chapter 11: Foresight--and Hindsight (133 KB) Chapter 12: What to do? A Global Strategy (184 KB) Chapter 13: How to do it? A Different Way of Organizing the Government (158 KB) Appendices (109 KB) Notes (669 KB)
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