Back in May I mentioned I was finished reading Chapter 3 of the 9/11 Commission Report. After that I got through Chapters 5 & 6, but never finished it. Now I'm glad because it looks like the second edition will be more complete than the first.
Second edition? Yes, it seems that the 9/11 Commission decided to omit a fairly big piece of the Mohammed Atta puzzle before it published its report. A Defense Department intelligence unit had identified Atta and Marwan al Shehi (the pilots of the planes that struck the twin towers) as members of a New York al Qaeda cell in the summer of 2000. This intelligence unit decided not to share the information with the FBI because it would violate a "1995 order creating a "wall" that blocked intelligence on terrorists from being shared with law enforcement". The author of the order, Jamie Gorelick, was a member of the 9/11 Commission.
