Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission by Thomas Kean
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Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission by Thomas Kean
UPDATE: 8/21; corrections (Publishers Weekly) -- A re-creation of the inner workings of a government commission threatens to be a dry bureaucratic procedural, but the 9/11 Commission was so politically fraught that its story is compelling in its own right. Chairman Kean and vice-chair Hamilton detail the commission's fight with Congress for more money and time; its wranglings with the Bush administration to win access to witnesses and classified documents; its delicate relations with victims' families, who were its harshest critics and staunchest champions; its strategic use of public censure to wring concessions from recalcitrant officials; and the forging of a bipartisan consensus among fractious Republican and Democratic commissioners. Their tone is evenhanded and diplomatic, but some adversaries—NORAD, the FAA, House Republicans—get singled out as stumbling blocks to the investigation. The authors cogently defend the compromises they made and swat conspiracy theories about coverups, but critics unhappy with the commission's refusal to "point fingers" or its lukewarm resistance to White House claims of executive privilege may not be satisfied. The issues the commission wrestled with—official incapacity to prevent disaster, the government's use and misuse of intelligence, presidential accountability—are still in the headlines, which makes this lucid, absorbing account of its work very timely. Photos. (Aug. 15) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission by Thomas KeanUPDATE: 8/21; corrections (Publishers Weekly) -- A re-creation of the inner workings of a government commission threatens to be a dry bureaucratic procedural, but the 9/11 Commission was so politically fraught that its story is compelling in its own right. Chairman Kean and vice-chair Hamilton detail the commission's fight with Congress for more money and time; its wranglings with the Bush administration to win access to witnesses and classified documents; its delicate relations with victims' families, who were its harshest critics and staunchest champions; its strategic use of public censure to wring concessions from recalcitrant officials; and the forging of a bipartisan consensus among fractious Republican and Democratic commissioners. Their tone is evenhanded and diplomatic, but some adversaries—NORAD, the FAA, House Republicans—get singled out as stumbling blocks to the investigation. The authors cogently defend the compromises they made and swat conspiracy theories about coverups, but critics unhappy with the commission's refusal to "point fingers" or its lukewarm resistance to White House claims of executive privilege may not be satisfied. The issues the commission wrestled with—official incapacity to prevent disaster, the government's use and misuse of intelligence, presidential accountability—are still in the headlines, which makes this lucid, absorbing account of its work very timely. Photos. (Aug. 15) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Buy now from Amazon.com:
Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission
Buy now from Buy.com:
Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission
Tags: reviews, books, Headlines, wire, Moussaoui, 9-11, Terrorism, bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Flight 93, FBI, photography, photo, photos, pictures, images, photojournalism, Muhammad, prophet, Mohammad, Muslim, terrorism, United States
Global Tags: Washington DC, News and Politics, News, Politics, Current Events, Current Affairs, Life, Culture, Tension
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