Originally published January 6 2006
9/11 panel issues report that condemns government for failing to shore up security against terrorism
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Thomas Kean, former New Jersey governor, is chairman of the 9/11 commission that recently issued a report that condemned the government for failing to adequately upgrade national security to prevent another large-scale terrorist attack.
Time, money and ever-present terror threats have done little to close gaping holes in the nation's security system, the former Sept. 11 Commission said Monday in accusing the government of failing to protect the country against another attack.
The panel cited disjointed airplane passenger screening methods, pork-barrel security funding and other problems in saying the Bush administration and Congress had not moved quickly enough to enact the majority of its recommendations of July 2004.
"We're frustrated, all of us --- frustrated at the lack of urgency in addressing these various problems," said Thomas Kean, a Republican and former New Jersey governor who was chairman of the commission.
Rather than disbanding like most federally appointed commissions when their terms expire, Kean and the other nine commissioners continued their work as a private entity called the 9/11 Public Discourse Project.
Wrapping up more than three years of investigations and hearings, the former commission issued what members said was their final assessment of the government's counterterror performance as a report card.
It gave failing grades in five areas, and issued only one "A" --- actually an A-minus --- for the Bush administration's efforts to curb terrorist financing.
_Failing to consolidate names of suspicious airline travelers on a single terror watch screening list.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed when 19 hijackers organized by al-Qaida flew airliners into New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon and caused a crash in the Pennsylvania countryside.
The White House later released a 17-point fact sheet noting its support for the commission and some its recommendations that have been enacted so far, including the creation of a national intelligence director and a counterterror center to analyze threat information from federal agencies.
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