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Parent topics

• Terrorism [r]: Any act, nearly always violent, unpredictable, and chaotic in nature, often targetting civilians, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. [e]
• 9-11 Attack [r]: The largest terrorist attack on the continental United States, occurring on September 11, 2001, using hijacked airliners as suicide weapons against major buildings [e]

Subtopics

Commissioners

• Thomas Kean [r]: Board of a number of organizations including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Council of the World Wildlife Foundation; Advisor, Partnership for a Secure America; Chair of the 9-11 Commission; governor of New Jersey (1982-1990) and, since 1990, the president of Drew University; ten years in the New Jersey Assembly, rising to the positions of majority leader, minority leader, and speaker. [e]
• Lee Hamilton [r]: Board member, National Endowment for Democracy; advisor, Partnership for a Secure America; President and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; U.S. Representative from Indiana for 34 years, chairing the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Vice chair of the 9-11 Commission [e]
• Richard Ben-Veniste [r]: Member of 9-11 Commission ;Partner in the Washington law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. He served as Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District New York, from 1968 to 1973; chief of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office from 1973 to 1975 and Special Outside Counsel Senate Committee on Government Operations from 1976 to 1977. From May 1995 to June 1996, chief counsel (minority) of the Senate Whitewater Committee. [e]
• Fred Fielding [r]: Member of 9-11 Commission; Senior partner and head of Wiley, Rein, & Fielding's Government Affairs, Business & Finance, Litigation and Crisis Management/White Collar Crime Practices. He served as Counsel to the President of the United States in the Ronald Reagan administration, as deputy counsel Associate Counsel for Richard Nixon [e]
• Jamie Gorelick [r]: Partner, WilmerHale; Hillary Clinton supporter on Barack Obama transition teaml trustee, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; member, 9-11 Commission and Council on Foreign Relations; former Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae 1993-2003; former Deputy Attorney General; former General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense [e]
• Slade Gorton [r]: Of counsel at Preston Gates & Ellis LLP; advisor, Partnership for a Secure America; former U.S. Senator (R-Washington) Pfor 18 years, from 1982-2000, on the Appropriations, Budget, Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Energy and Natural Resources Committees; counsel to the Majority Leader (1996-2000); member of the 9-11 Commission; chairman of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee (1995-2001), the Commerce Subcommittees on Consumer Affairs (1995-99), and Aviation (1999-2000) [e]
• Bob Kerrey [r]: Member of the 9-11 Commission; President of New School University in New York City. For twelve years prior to becoming President of New School University, Bob Kerrey represented the State of Nebraska in the United States Senate; Before that he served as Nebraska's Democratic Governor for four years. Educated in pharmacy at the University of Nebraska, Bob Kerrey served three years as a United States Navy SEAL, receiving the Medal of Honor; After his military service, he started a chain of restaurants and health clubs in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas. [e]
• John Lehman [r]: Chair, Program on National Security, Foreign Policy Research Institute; Advisor, Partnership for a Secure America; former Secretary of the Navy and naval aviator; member of 9-11 Commission [e]
• Timothy Roemer [r]: U.S. Ambassador to India; member, Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism‎; Distinguished scholar, the Mercatus Center, George Mason University; Immediate Past President of the Center for National Policy (CNP); Member of the 9-11 Commission; former U.S. Representative (D-Indiana) [e]
• James Thompson [r]: Member of 9-11 Commission; Illinois' longest-serving governor (1977-1991); chairman of the law firm of Winston & Strawn, in Chicago. From 1959 to 1964, he served in the Cook County state's attorney's office, where he argued criminal civil rights cases before the Illinois and US Supreme Courts. He then taught at the Northwestern Law School. In 1971, he became U.S. Attorney for the Northern District, [e]

Selected staff

• Alexis Albion [r]: Senior policy analyst at the Center for National Policy; professional staff member, 9-11 Commission; doctoral candidate in International History at Harvard University, specializing in intelligence history; formerly the historian of the International Spy Museum [e]
• Scott Allan [r]: Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Former special counsel to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Law clerk for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. [e]
• John Azzarello [r]: Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Former attorney at Carella Byrne in New Jersey. Former Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office in Newark and a former legal commentator on Court Television Network. [e]
• Caroline Barnes [r]: Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission. Former Senior Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Analyst in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Division. Detailed to the the U.S. Department of Energy, serving as founder and Director of the Department's Counterintelligence Analysis Program. [e]
• Warren Bass [r]: Director of terrorism project and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; senior editor, Washington Post; professional staff member, 9-11 Commission; [e]
• Mark Bittinger [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission. A policy analyst with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) working with clients such as the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the U.S. State Department. Author of “Emergency Response: Police, Firefighters and Medical Personnel,” in the Encyclopedia of World Terrorism: 1996-2002
• Daniel Byman [r]: Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy,Brookings Institution; Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University (2003-); Consultant, 9-11 Commission. Led ‘look-back’ team and worked on CIA issues for the Congressional Joint Inquiry. Previously director for research at RAND Corporation Center for Middle East Public Policy. [e]
• Marco Cordero [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission. FBI Special Agent the last seven years assigned to investigate counterterrorism matters the last four years. Formerly with the U.S. Border Patrol.
• Raj De [r]: Add brief definition or description Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Former litigation associate at O'Melveny & Myers and former trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. Served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
• George Delgrosso [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission. Former New York City Police Department Homicide Detective with expertise in investigation, intelligence gathering, research, strategic planning, and case management.
• Gerald Dillingham [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission. Currently Director of Civil Aviation Issues, United States General Accountability Office (GAO)
• Thomas Dowling [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission. Career foreign service officer for thirty years, with extensive experience in the Middle East and South Asia. Currently adjunct professor at the Joint Military Intelligence College.
• Steven Dunne [r]: Add brief definition or description Deputy General Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Maryland. Former litigation partner Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Former law clerk to Justice David H. Souter, U.S. Supreme Court, and Judge Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals, DC Circuit.
• Thomas Eldridge [r]: Add brief definition or description Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Coordinated federal interagency review of U.S. International Crime Control Strategy.
• John Farmer [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Former Attorney General of the State of New Jersey and Chairman of New Jersey’s Domestic Preparedness Task Force in the aftermath of September 11.
• Alvin Felzenberg [r]: Add brief definition or description Deputy for Communications, 9-11 Commission. Formerly at Voice of America, after serving as communications consultant to Secretary of the Navy Gordon England. Directed the Heritage Foundation’s “Mandate 2000” project on the presidential transition process, and was editor of Keys to a Successful Presidency.
• Lorry Fenner [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission. Air Force Colonel and Intelligence Officer. Recently completed a year as a Supreme Court Fellow and an assignment as the Vice Wing Commander of the 70th Intelligence Wing. Previously served on the staff of the President's Review of Intelligence tasked by President Bush in May 2001. Also served in the Strategy Division of the Joint Staff/J5 and the Intelligence Directorate of the Air Staff, as well as at intelligence operational units and Headquarters.
• Susan Ginsburg [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Former senior official in the Treasury Department’s Office of Enforcement. Law clerk for the Honorable Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals and worked in the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics Matters.
• T. Graham Giusti [r]: Add brief definition or description Chief of Security, 9-11 Commission. Comes to the Commission from the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence.
• Nicole Grandrimo [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission. Former regional affairs officer in the Office of Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department.
• Doug Greenburg [r]: Add brief definition or description Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Former litigation partner at Winston and Strawn and a former staff attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Former law clerk to the Hon. Alan E. Norris, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
• Barbara Grewe [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Associate General Counsel GAO, working on investigations of fraud in government operations or contracts. Served as Special Investigative Counsel for DOJ Inspector General’s 9-11 review. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
• Len Hawley [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionConsultant, 9-11 Commission. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, NSC Director for Multilateral Affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acting).
• Christine Healey [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Formerly with the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving most recently as Democratic counsel and chief of staff.
• Walt Hempel [r]: Add brief definition or description Consultant, 9-11 Commission. Former Senior Special Agent with INS, served as a regional task force coordinator for narcotics and counter-terrorism. Most recently, special projects manager at DHS responsible for Federal, state and local law enforcement integration.
• Michael Hurley [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Counsel, 9-11 Commission. CIA officer and attorney. Served two tours at the National Security Council as director of Southeast European Affairs with responsibilities for Kosovo and Bosnia. Served in Afghanistan during 2002-2003.
• Dana Hyde [r]: Add brief definition or description Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Former attorney with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (London) and Zuckerman Spaeder (Washington, DC). Served as special assistant to the deputy attorney general and as special assistant to the president for Cabinet Affairs in the Clinton administration.
• Michael Jacobson [r]: Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; senior advisor in the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI); U.S. Department of the Treasury, 2005-2007, where he was liaison to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and National Counterterrorism Center; counsel on 9-11 Commission; intelligence analyst and assistant general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation [e] Counsel, 9-11 Commission; Worked on FBI team for the Congressional Joint Inquiry. Formerly an assistant general counsel and intelligence analyst in the FBI’s National Security Division.
• Bonnie Jenkins [r]: Add brief definition or description Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Fellow at Harvard’s JFK School’s Belfer Center. Assistant director of the State Department’s Kosovo History Project from 1999 to 2001, formerly worked on the National Commission on Terrorism (1999-2000) and as general counsel for the Commission on the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Also a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
• Stephanie Kaplan [r]: Add brief definition or description Special assistant, 9-11 Commission. Former assistant director for international security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a former associate with the Aspen Strategy Group, a policy program of The Aspen Institute.
• Miles Kara [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission. Worked on the ‘other agencies’ team of the Congressional Joint Inquiry. Retired Army intelligence officer, who worked as a civilian in the Department of Defense Inspector General’s Office of Intelligence Review from 1992 until selected as a member of the Joint Inquiry staff.
• Janice Kephart-Roberts [r]: Add brief definition or description Counsel, 9-11 Commission. Former counsel to Senator Jon Kyl for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information. Conducted oversight of DOJ and INS counterterrorism activities.
• Hyon Kim [r]: Add brief definition or description Special counsel, 9-11 Commission; Formerly with the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Office of the General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Commission on Terrorism.
• Christopher Kojm [r]: Add brief definition or description Deputy Executive Director, 9-11 Commission; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence Policy in the State Department since 1998. Previously a senior staffer for Representative Lee Hamilton handling foreign policy issues on Capitol Hill.
• Gordon Lederman [r]: Add brief definition or description Counsel, 9-11 Commission; Former associate in the National Security Law and Policy Group of Arnold & Porter. Clerked for Judge Robert Cowen (3rd Circuit). Author, Reorganizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986; Co-author, Combating Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Terrorism: A Comprehensive Strategy.
• Sarah Linden [r]: Add brief definition or description 9-11 Commission; Professional staff member. Special Agent from FBI’s Washington, DC Field Office, Counterterrorism Program. Previously served as an FBI intelligence analyst working international terrorism investigations in San Francisco and at FBI Headquarters.
• Douglas MacEachin [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission; Retired career CIA analyst who left CIA in 1995 as the Deputy Director for Intelligence. Has since become a historian, publishing four books and monographs on the intelligence-policy relationship (most recently on the Polish crisis of 1980-1981, published by Penn State UP). Has just completed a classified study on the current terrorist target.
• Daniel Marcus [r]: Add brief definition or description General Counsel, 9-11 Commission; Served as Associate Attorney General in the second Clinton administration. Former partner and member of management committee at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Served as Deputy General Counsel of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and as General Counsel of Department of Agriculture in the Carter administration.
• Ernest May [r]: Add brief definition or description Consultant, 9-11 Commission; Currently the Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard University. Author of a number of books, including most recently Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France; The Kennedy Tapes; Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Policymakers (with Richard Neustadt); and Knowing Your Enemy: Intelligence Assessment in the Two World Wars. Longtime director of Harvard’s Intelligence and Policy Project and Board Member for the Joint Military Intelligence College.
• James Miller [r]: Board member ex officio, United States Institute of Peace [e] Consultant, 9-11 Commission; Retired Postal Inspector experienced in emergency preparedness planning, and money laundering investigations.
• Kelly Moore [r]: Add brief definition or description Consultant, 9-11 Commission; Previously worked for the State Dept.’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism. Served as Press Secretary to Sen. Joe Lieberman and as a Spokesperson for the United Nations in Bosnia and for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal (“war crimes tribunal”).
• Charles Pereira [r]: Add brief definition or description Consultant, 9-11 Commission; Currently Senior Aerospace Engineer in the Vehicle Performance Division of the National Transportation Safety Board, with responsibility for investigating aviation, rail, and marine accidents. Some prior aviation investigations include the 1991 mid-air collision involving Senator John Heinz, the 1994 intentional crash of a Cessna 172 into the White House area, TWA Flight 800, USAir Flight 427, the USAF 737 crash in Croatia involving Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, the Aviation Charter, Inc. crash in Minnesota involving Senator Paul Wellstone, and the crash of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
• John Raidt [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission; Former legislative director for Senator John McCain and chief of staff for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
• John Roth [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Counsel, 9-11 Commission; Former chief, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, U.S. Department of Justice.
• Peter Rundlet [r]: Add brief definition or description Counsel, 9-11 Commission; Former attorney in the Political Law Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Former associate counsel to the President and White House Fellow, serving in the Office of Chief of Staff to the President.
• Lloyd Salvetti [r]: Add brief definition or description Consultant, 9-11 Commission; Career CIA operations officer. Former Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence. Taught at National War College. Served as Director of Intelligence Programs on the National Security Council.
• Kevin Scheid [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission; Currently a senior intelligence service officer in the Office of the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management. He recently served as staff director of the President’s Review of Intelligence tasked by President Bush in May 2001. As a career civil servant, and prior to his tenure in the Intelligence Community, he served for eleven years in various positions within the Office of Management and Budget at the White House.
• Kevin Shaeffer [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission; Navy LT medically retired due to severe injuries sustained in the 9-11 attack on the Pentagon. Previously served on the CNO’s staff.
• Dietrich Snell [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Counsel, 9-11 Commission; Deputy Attorney General, New York, Division of Public Advocacy. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York. Criminal Division
• John Tamm [r]: Add brief definition or description Professional staff member, 9-11 Commission; Veteran Supervisory Special Agent from the FBI’s Justice Task Force, Criminal Investigative Division. Specializes in review of operational and management effectiveness in investigations. Front line supervisor in Boston, MA, during FBI’s investigation of the AA Flight 11 and UAL Flight 175 hijacking. Lt. Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve, Retired.
• Yoel Tobin [r]: Add brief definition or description Counsel, 9-11 Commission; Veteran attorney at the Department of Justice, working for the last seven years in the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
• Garth Wermter [r]: Add brief definition or description Consultant for Technology Development, 9-11 Commission; Currently director of Technology at University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and former technical consultant to the Markle Foundation’s Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
• Philip Zelikow [r]: Professor of History at the University of Virginia, previously Executive Director of the 9-11 Commission, a Foreign Service Officer and Counselor to the U.S. Department of State, a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, board of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [e] Executive Director, 9-11 Commission; Director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs and White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Was a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and served as executive director of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by former Presidents Carter and Ford, as well as the executive director of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.

Warning

• United States intelligence community [r]: The United States' intelligence agencies coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [e]
  • Cognitive traps for intelligence analysis [r]: detecting and mitigating potential errors in the intelligence analysis process [e]

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• 9-11 Attack in New York [r]: The specific events of the 9-11 Attack in New York City, the regional emergency response and lessons learned from the disaster management [e]
  • World Trade Center [r]: The New York office complex, centered around twin skyscrapers 110 stories high, which was destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 [e]
  • Fire Department of New York [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • New York Police Department [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 9-11 Attack on Pentagon Building [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Pentagon Building [r]: Headquarters office building of the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as a symbol of the U.S. military [e]
  • Arlington County Fire Department [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Incident Command System [r]: An increasingly worldwide set of procedures and doctrines for operational response to emergencies requiring response from different organizations, ranging from multiple units of the same local fire department or police force, to major disasters covering large regions and requiring national or international resources [e]
• Federal Aviation Administration [r]: The U.S. government agency responsible for the safe operation of civil aviation and air traffic control, but not for security of aircraft [e]
• North American Air Defense Command [r]: The joint Canada-U.S. military organization responsible for aerospace threat warning and defense for North America [e]
• al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
  • Osama bin Laden [r]: A radical jihadist who founded, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. [e]
  • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [r]: Described by the U.S. and by his own proud statement, the operational planner, for al-Qaeda, of the 9-11 attack; a U.S. High Value Detainee with no announced plan for trial [e]