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Wednesday September 07, 2011

9/11 Commission Recommendations

Posted by AAI at 3:00 pm

Peter King

On Thursday, September 8 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Homeland Security will hold a hearing that, according to Chairman Peter King (R-NY) (pictured left), will help them “get a better picture of the progress that we have made as a nation in securing our homeland since the horrific attacks of 9/11.” 

Scheduled to testify are Lee Hamilton, Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission; Tom Ridge, Former Secretary of Homeland Security; and Eugene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States (Government Accountability Office).  The Committee will discuss the just-published Tenth Anniversary Report Card: The Status of the 9/11 Commission Recommendations, co-authored by Hamilton and 9/11 Commission Chair and former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean.

Among the Report Card’s findings and assertions:

  • Individuals in the U.S. are engaging in ‘self-radicalization’
  • Americans are playing increasingly prominent roles in al Qaeda’s movement
  • The intelligence community…(has) used tools…that may implicate the privacy of Americans
  • Unwieldy jurisdictional divisions (between the House and Senate) result in the inefficient allocation of limited resources
  • The issue of prisoner treatment has become highly politicized

AAI will issue a more comprehensive summary of the 10th Anniversary Report in the coming days. Be sure to check back at aaiusa.org to see our assessment.

Tagged as Issues, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Islamophobia, Profiling, Peter King Hearings

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