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December 2, 2003
Karl HofmaTin
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Request No. 8
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON
August 25, 2003
Sincerely,
The Honorable
Thomas Kean, Chair,
National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks upon the United States,
301 7 ch Street, SW, Room 5125,
Washington, DC 20407.
August 26, 2003
Lee H. Hamilton
VICE CHAIR To: Karl Hofinann, Department of State
Richard Ben-Veniste
From: Daniel Marcus, General Counsel
MaxQeland
Jamie S. Gorelick
Slade Gorton As a follow-up to the letter to Secretary Powell dated August 19, 2003,
here are the most important categories of documents requested by the
John Lehman
Commission that are overdue:
Timothy J. Roemer
DOS Document Request No. 1 - Items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9
James R Thompson
Lee H. Hamilton
VICE CHAIR
The Honorable Colin L. Powell
Richard Ben-Veniste Secretary of State
2201 C Street, NW
Max Cleland
Washington, DC 20520-0001
Frederick F. Fielding
Dear Secretary Powell:
Jamie S. Oorelick
Slade Gorton Public Law 107-306 directs the Commission to investigate the facts and
circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including
John F. Lehman
the nation's preparedness for and immediate response to those attacks. We are
Timothy J. Roemer also mandated to identify and evaluate lessons learned and make
James R. Thompson
recommendations for the future. The statute authorizes the Commission to
secure needed information directly from any agency. The Commission has
thus made numerous requests for documents and discussions with officials
Philip D. Zelikow
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
from your department. Given the extraordinary character of the 9/11 events
and our mandate, the scope and sensitivity of our requests have few, if any,
precedents.
We are therefore all the more grateful for the efforts you and your colleagues
have made so far to deal with our many, necessary requests. With so many
other issues confronting you and your staff, we do understand how hard this
can be. We try to make appropriate allowances when we know people are
doing their best. In July the Commission issued an interim report on our
progress so far. In that report we said the coming weeks would be critical.
We promised another report in September that would appraise whether the
level of voluntary cooperation is sufficient so that we will be able ttJtlo the job
we are charged to do under the statute.
That time is now approaching. You are entitled to some advance notice of
what we need. To make such a decisive appraisal and properly evaluate your
department's cooperation, we will assess:
We understand that you and your staff may need a few more weeks to finalize
policy choices and push through delivery of key documents. Therefore we
think it is reasonable to wait and assess the situation based on positions
communicated with us and documents that have actually been delivered or
otherwise made available to us by COB on Friday, September 5, 2003.
Sincerely,
Given the concerns that have been raised about further dissemination of this
information by the Commission, the Commission has agreed that it will not
publicly disclose the names of these officers, in its report or otherwise,
without prior agreement by the Department.
If you have any questions about this request, please give Betty or ma^a call.
We look forward to receiving this information as soon as possible. Thank you
for your continuing cooperation with the Commission's requests.
Yours sincerely,
Daniel Marcus
General Counsel
Thank you for your continuing efforts, and the efforts of many others at the
Department, to cooperate with the Commission and to respond to our requests.
Yours sincerely,
Daniel Marcus
General Counsel
cc: Brian H. Hook (U.S. Department of Justice) 301 7'h Street SW, Room 5125
Washington, DC 20407
T 202.331.4060 F 202.296.5545
www.9-1 lcommission.gov