9/11 Families Tell Intel Committees They Want Blue-Ribbon Panel Formed

By Thomas Duffy / September 18, 2002 at 5:00 AM
Family members of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and at the Pentagon told a joint House and Senate intelligence committee today that an independent, blue-ribbon panel should be formed to fully investigate how the United States intelligence community failed to take steps to prevent the attacks. A report issued today by the joint committee said that despite mounting evidence that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group was planning some type of attack within the United States,...

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