I know this has been brought up before, but I'm really curious. How would we find that out?
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Who Was The Author Of The 9/11 Report? (14 posts)
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The New York Times reported that "there could not have been a single author."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0...
They also said, "The document is an improbable literary triumph."
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Core of authors comprised a "head office" under Zelikow with Ernest May and Dietrich Snell, also Kojm (deputy ED) and Marcus (counsel). Zelikow and May were veterans at writing public mythology. Kean/Hamilton said Zelikow wrote the outline and assigned sections to staffers. I think there's little doubt on the primary authors and editors, the creators of the single voice you hear throughout: Zelikow and May.
Says May in his self-expose for TNR ("When Government Writes History"):
As the commission's senior adviser, I was a fourth member of this "front office," but I had no managerial responsibility. My job was to help produce the historical narrative.
For this task, I had two comparative advantages. The first was a long career as a historian. The second was a lack of partisan bias. Many years earlier, I had been a commissioner myself....
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050523&s=may0...
Bryan Sacks wrote the best treatment of this in "The Hiden History," also here:
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20051128...
All of this is deeply ironic, in that Zelikow's self-described area of academic expertise is the creation and management of "public myths" or "public presumptions," which he defines as "beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community." In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what he has called "'searing' or 'molding' events [that] take on 'transcendent' importance and, therefore, retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene." Writing in 1998, Zelikow said that "generational" public presumptions "are formed by those pivotal events that become etched in the minds of those who live through them. . .The current set begins in approximately 1933, although the New Deal generation is fading." No doubt a different set of generational public presumptions was established after September 11, 2001, and Zelikow's compromised 9/11 Commission will have played a large role in cementing those presumptions.
Griffin, in two of his serious recent articles (no bullshit about voice morphing):
- According to Kean and Hamilton themselves, Zelikow provided the “overarching vision†for the report and, with the aid of his former coauthor Ernest May, prepared the outline, which he presented to the staff, assigning “different sections and subsections of it to individual staff members†(Without Precedent, 273). Finally, although various members of the Commission’s staff wrote the first drafts of the various chapters, we learn from May, revised drafts were then produced by the “front office,†which was headed by Zelikow (Ernest May, “When Government Writes History: A Memoir of the 9/11 Commission,†New Republic, May 23, 2005).
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20070227...
Further, as one of the Commission Report's architects, Ernest May, has noted in his memoir of the Commission, Zelikow broke up the staff into eight investigative teams. Zelikow and other members of what May termed the "front office" performed revisions on all drafts submitted by the teams. The front office included Zelikow, May, Deputy Executive Director Christopher Kojm and General Counsel Daniel Marcus.
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Thanks for the info.
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Who Was The Author Of The 9/11 Report?
The best answer of course is the White House.
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They did vet each and every chapter.
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Yes, thanks. Why had I never seen this article? Oh yeah, because of all the bullshit crowding it out of view.
Bryan Sacks wrote the best treatment of this in "The Hidden History," also here:
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What about Timothy Naftali who is also part of the Miller Center at UVA with Zelikow and May?
Read his bio on the back of this book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/B000E10ETM/ref=sib...
John Judge found this one.
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What about Naftali? He wasn't on the staff: http://www.9-11commission.gov/about/bios_staff.htm
Zelikow has lots of past associates. If you're looking for writers of the CR, check the staff first, obviously.
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He was not on the staff, but he is a long-time close associate of May and Zelikow and he was contracted to do something for the 9-11 Commission. Given that he mostly is an author (he is also a professor and a director at the Nixon Library), I think it is very likely that he worked in that capacity some way for the commission.
He mentions that he was asked by Zelikow to write an early history of US Counterterrorism for the commission staff and he very much frames 9-11 as an intelligence failure. I am not saying that he wrote the report, although the Warren Report should let us know that the official staff are not necessarily who write the report, I think that he is likely to have had a hand in the intellectual authorship.
Here are two of the people he mentions being closest to on the staff of the commission in Blind Spot :
Michael Hurley, head of investigative team 3 (do you know what this team specialized in?): http://www.9-11pdp.org/about/bio_hurley.htm -and- Warren Bass, whose bio is on the link you gave me
Also, a very good article, by the former JFK Library historian, on Zelikow and May and their transcriptions of the Kennedy Tapes of which the movie "Thirteen Days" was based.
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Very good - so there is a link to Naftali. What did Hurley specialize in? Afghanistan?
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It is very likely given his backround. Did they ever release what each of the investigative teams actually investigated? All I can find are the monographs here:
http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/ind...
Hurley is not mentioned in either of these so I do not think that either of these were his team. Apparently, they were originally going to release one monograph per team, but I think the note on the third page of the Terrorist Travel monograph from Zelikow sums up where that went.
I was looking up Zelikow and he apparently was under Rice in the Department of State in 2005-2006 as a senior policy advisor. He also was a lawyer in Texas during the early 80s, which might be worth a Lexis Nexus search of Texas papers to see what he was up to then.
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Zelikow was an associate to Rice at the National Security Council under Bush Sr. They wrote a 1999 book about their experiences. So it goes back a long way.
http://www.justicefor911.org/Appendix6_KeanCommiss...
He participated in the Bush-Cheney transition team in late 2000-2001.
His most important appointment may have been after 9/11 to the Presidential Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a longstanding steering committee of private individuals for presidential foreign policy operations, covert and otherwise. (Look up the PFIAB.) That's where he was until he got the call to be executive director of the 9/11 Commission.
This was brought up by the Family Steering Committee in their demand for his resignation, which was ignored.
He was recused from handling anything to do with Rice, the star witness, as though this altered the conflict of interest. Kean said at a press conference, "everyone on the panel will have to be recused at some point," as though the composition of a "bipartisan" Commission consisting of veteran politicos, each with a different set of conflicts of interest, is supposed to reassure us.
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Lexis search for Philip Zelikow prior to 1990 produces a single NYT hit from 1982 and nothing else. It's not exactly interesting - a guy whose credit cards were stolen 12 years before and used by a marijuana dealer is having his name cleared before a Houston federal court and his lawyer is Philip Zelikow. No doubt it's him, just starting out. But if you want to find out more about him you'll have to go to Houston to his former firm, I guess. The firm's name is not mentioned in the article.
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