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Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton , the Chair and Vice-Chair of the 9/11 Commission, made an astonishing admission in their book, Without Precedent \\u2013 The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.\\xa0 They said,

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\\u201cIt appeared to both of us that the [9-11] commission was set up to fail\\u201d.

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In an interview with the CBC, Lee Hamilton said he thought they were \\u201creasonably successful in telling the story,\\u201d although he also acknowledged, \\u201cI don\\u2019t believe for a minute that we got everything right.\\u201d\\xa0 However, that the Commission was set up to fail at all is a big Red Flag.\\xa0 Why was the Commission set up to fail, and who did it?

Kean and Hamilton, in the first chapter of the book titled, \\u201cSet Up to Fail,\\u201d explain their reason for thinking this.

1) The late establishment and start of the commission itself.\\xa0\\xa0 In fact, it took 441 days after the attacks and a Congressional mandate to force the Bush administration into a formal investigation.
2) There were numerous complications in obtaining security clearances for Commissioners and staff.
3) There was a deadline for completion which did not allow the proper time to fulfill their mandate.
4) The commission was severely underfunded.\\xa0 Only $3 million dollars was initially allocated, though two months later the Bush Administration reluctantly increased the total to $12 million.
5) The commission had restricted access to important documents and witnesses.\\xa0 According to Hamilton, \\u201c\\u2026 we were fighting the question of access right up to the end of the Commission\\u2019s work.\\u201d
6) False testimony was given by NORAD officials, and
7) The commission encountered obstruction by the CIA, and possibly the White House, over access to prisoners accused of having a role in the 9/11 plot.

One might reasonably ask; if they\\u2019ve got nothing to hide, why are they acting as if they do?\\xa0 When Hamilton was asked by the CBC interviewer about why he thought they were set up to fail, he laughed, and said, \\u201cI think basically it\\u2019s because they were afraid we were going to hang somebody, that we would point the finger, right in the middle of a presidential campaign.\\u201d

The 9-11 Commission was mandated by law to \\u201cprovide a full and complete accounting\\u201d of the tragic events of September 11th.\\xa0 How on earth were they able to carry out this mandate if they were \\u201cset up to fail\\u201d?\\xa0 The answer is, they couldn\\u2019t.