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Report finds 9/11 Commission Records Sealed at National Archives

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Thursday, September 8th, 2011 at 5:22 pm

    

Reuters is reporting that the majority of the 9/11 Commission’s investigative records are still sealed at the National Archives, though they were supposed to be made public in 2009.

Scot J. Paltrow reports:

The 575 cubic feet of records were in large part the basis for the commission’s public report, issued July 22, 2004. The commission, formally known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, was established by Congress in late 2002 to investigate the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks, the pre-attack effectiveness of intelligence agencies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the government’s emergency response.

In a Reuters interview this week, Matt Fulgham, assistant director of the archives’ center for legislative affairs which has oversight of the commission documents, said that more than a third of the material has been reviewed for possible release. But many of those documents have been withheld or heavily redacted, and the released material includes documents that already were in the public domain, such as press articles.

Read the story here.



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