Revised Sept. 11 report released I wonder if this revised "public" report mentions that in June of 2000 Congress finally directed FAA to comply to a 1998 OIG audit ordering that a civil aviation strategic plan be submitted with the FY 2002 budget request. Government watchdog groups this month said that federal agencies spent a record $148 last year creating and storing new secrets for each $1 spent declassifying old secrets.



F.A.A. Alerted on Al Qaeda in '98, 9/11 Panel Said -- NYT.com
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 - American aviation officials were warned as early as 1998 that Al Qaeda could "seek to hijack a commercial jet and slam it into a U.S. landmark," according to previously secret portions of a report prepared last year by the Sept. 11 commission. The officials also realized months before the Sept. 11 attacks that two of the three airports used in the hijackings had suffered repeated security lapses.

A heavily redacted version was released by the Bush administration in January, but commission members complained that the deleted material contained information critical to the public's understanding of what went wrong on Sept. 11. In response, the administration prepared a new public version of the report, which was posted Tuesday on the National Archives Web site.

Ideoblog: Katrina as the fed's Enron  ¶ 9/14/2005