Ernest May
9/11 Obits: Ernest May and Khalid Bin Mahfouz
June 6, 2009 - Ernest May, International Relations Expert, Dies at 80
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/07may.html?_r=1
Ernest May Profile
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=ernest_may_1
August 28, 2009 - Khalid bin Mahfouz, Saudi Banker, Dies at 60
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/khalid-bin-mahfouz-saudi-banker-dies-at-60/
Khalid Bin Mahfouz Profile
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=khalid_bin_mahfouz
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In Their Own Words: Admissions from the people who wrote the 9/11 Commission Report that it was compromised
Quotations from Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 911 Commission, by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton
"We were set up to fail" (14).
"The chief obstacle was the White House, which argued that the congressional inquiry was continuing, and that an independent investigation would distract the government from waging the ongoing war on terrorism" (17).
"The two sides decided to split the difference, allowing eighteen months for the inquiry—a period of time that proved insufficient" (20).
"The White House also suggested some candidates for executive director for our staff. The importance of this position cannot be overstated" (22).
"…we seriously only considered one candidate: Philip Zelikow…. Zelikow was a controversial choice. In the 1990s, as an academic, he had co-authored, with Condoleezza Rice, a book about German unification, and he later assisted Stephen Hadley in running the National Security Council transition for the incoming Bush administration in 2000-2001" (28).
"…our office space and employees had to be cleared by the FBI and CIA to handle top-secret information…" (34)