National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Minutes of the February 27, 2003 Meeting

Governor Kean called the meeting to order on February 27, 2003 at 9:30 AM.
All Members except Commissioner Fielding were in attendance.

The Commissioners decided on the following actions:

They directed staff to make Commission access to Congressional Joint Inquiry

documents a very high priority;

They expressed their strong interest in a briefing from Ms. Eleanor Hill of the
Joint Inquiry at the earliest possible date, on a classified basis for Members whose
clearances were in order, and on an unclassified basis for all Members. Commissioners
with clearances would form a Committee on an ad hoc basis for the purpose of reviewing
Joint Inquiry Documents as soon as possible;

They decided to file financial disclosure forms by March 26,2003, in accordance

with guidelines from the Senate Ethics Committee;

They agreed on the importance of another staff team, in addition to the eight
outlined by the Executive Director, in order to address financial flows in support of
terrorism;

They agreed on the importance of staff teams beginning their work, understanding
that resource allocations and team assignments will shift in accordance with Commission
needs;

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The Chair noted his intent to proceed expeditiously in the selection of a General
Counsel who had the support of Commissioners.

The Chair decided, subsequent to the meeting, to hold the next meeting of the
Commission on Thursday, March 20th at 9:00 AM.
MEMORANDUM

To: Fellow Commissioners

From: Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton

Subj: Our Meeting on February 27

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, in our offices at 2100 K Street. We again
plan to begin at 9:30 a.m. and conclude at noon. Our agenda will be:

I. Approval of the Minutes

The minutes from our meeting on February 12 are attached.

II. Organization of the Commission Staff

In addition to the Commission's front office, we currently plan to organize eight teams,
which are listed below along with some of the principal agencies associated with their
topics:

1. Al Qaeda and Other Major Transnational Terrorist Groups (including financing and
flow of assets). This team will use material from several agencies, perhaps obtained by
other teams, as well as open sources, court records, and information from foreign
governments.

1 A. The Organization of the 9/11 Attack. CIA, Main Justice (including U.S.
Attorney's offices), and FBI.

2. Intelligence Collection, Analysis, and Management. CIA, DIA (andJ-2 and other
DOD and service agencies), NSA, NRO, State/INR, DCI-CMS, DHS/IA-CIP, NSC.

2A. Oversight and Resource Allocation. Congressional committees, OMB.

3. International Counter-Terrorism Policy and Diplomacy (including Afghanistan and

Pakistan). State, NSC.

3A. Military Planning and Readiness. OSD, JCS, GENICOM.

3B. Covert action. CIA, DOD, NSC.
3C. International Law Enforcement and Financial Tracking. FBI, Treasury, State.

4. Immigration, Non-Immigrant Visas, and Border Control. INS, USCS, Border Patrol,
White House (including NSC).
5. Law Enforcement and Intelligence Collection inside the United States (including
information sharing). Justice, FBI, Treasury, USSS, state & local agencies.

6. Commercial Aviation and Transportation Security. FAA, DOT, TSA, airlines, NORAD.

6A. The Four Flights on 9/11

7. Emergency Response and Crisis Management: New York City and the Pentagon. Port
Authority, FDNY, NYPD, City Hall, OEM, FEMA, DOD, Northern Virginia agencies.

7A. The Experience of the Attack: Victims and Survivors. Open sources, service
agencies.

8. National Leadership: Immediate Response, Crisis Management, and Continuity

Contingencies. WHO, NSC, USSS, House of Representatives, Senate.

III. Staff

We have been energetically recruiting a strong staff. Though this process is still
underway, we have also attached a list, in alphabetical order, of the individuals who have
already accepted offers to work for the Commission. As staff work out their separations
from their existing jobs they will begin coming on board throughout the month of March,
some with full clearances and others working their way through that process.

IV. Budget

We have been analyzing our budget needs and have concluded that we will need to
request significant additional funds. Our current target is a total budget of $12 million for
the duration of our work, until mid-2004. This is a large increase on our current
appropriation of $3 million. We will be prepared to discuss how we have arrived at this
budget target.

DDCI Joan Dempsey and OMB have put a placeholder for this amount in the FY 03
supplemental now being prepared for submission to Congress. They found our proposal
understandable and proportionate to the scale of our work.

V. Planning for Initial Public Hearings

We are planning for an initial set of public hearings in New York City, on March 31 and
April 1. This would not be an investigative hearing. It would be an opportunity for a
public dialogue in an early stage of our work, allowing witnesses to discuss their hopes
for the Commission. It is also an opportunity to receive some initial briefings from work
that has already been done on the New York attacks. We would like to discuss the plan
for these hearings, as we consider witness groups, such as:

Representatives of the victims - family groups

State and local leaders

Members of Congress, including key sponsors of the legislation that created the
Commission

Local interest groups - Firefighters? Police?

Briefers on reports already done, such as the FEMA-sponsored report of the

American Society of Civil Engineers and the FDNY-sponsored report by
McKinsey.

Attachments:

1. Minutes of Commission Meeting of February 12

2. Current Commission Staff List
 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Minutes of February 12, 2003 Meeting

Chairman Kean convened the meeting at 9:40 AM. All Commissioners were in
attendance.

The Commission took the following actions:

— Decided that meeting minutes would include all decisions of the Commission;

— Decided that Commissioners would follow a policy of full disclosure of

professional financial activities and relationships;

— Decided on actions to facilitate early release of Joint Inquiry Committee documents

to the Commission, and to seek additional Commission office space;

— Decided that Task Forces / Teams of the Commission would address areas of
investigation required by Statute, and additional areas as agreed by the Commission;

— Decided that Commissioners would submit recommendations on Task Forces /

Teams, to be assembled by staff and circulated for review and decision;

— Decided that Commissioners would participate actively in Task Forces / Teams,

preferably by a process of self-selection, and possibly by a process of designation, to
be determined later;

— Decided that the Commission would hold public hearings in New York City in late
March / early April 2003 at 9:30 AM; and

— Decided that the next meeting of the Commission would be held on Thursday,
February 27, 2003 at 9:30 AM.

In addition, Commissioner Ben-Vemste asked for inclusion in the record his statement,
that in the process of negotiation with the White House, the Commission should not take
off the table any of the statutory powers of the Commission. The Commission expressed
agreement with Commissioner Ben-Veniste's statement.
Current Commission Staff (in alphabetical order)

Scott Allan. Professional staff member. Currently special counsel to Richard Holbrooke,
focusing on ICC and ICTFY issues. Practice and legal studies focused on international
law.

Warren Bass. Professional staff member. Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign
Relations directing the Council's special terrorism project. Author of the forthcoming
book, Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel
Alliance (Oxford UP).

Sam Brinkley. Professional staff member. Civil servant and former Marine now
working in the State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau. Significant government
experience in WMD issues and with aviation security.

Daniel Byman. Consultant. Led 'look-back' team and worked on CIA issues for the
Congressional Joint Inquiry. Assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown.
Previously director for research at RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy.
Author of Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts (Johns Hopkins UP,
2002) and co-author of The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the
Limits of Military Might (Cambridge UP, 2002).

Dianna Campagna. Operations Manager. Principal Director of HUD's Executive

Secretariat. She has held management positions in the real estate industry, and managed
the paperflow and office systems in the White House Counsel's office from 1981 to
1989, and in the White House Office of the Staff Secretary from 1971 to 1975.

John Farmer. Professional staff member and likely leader of Team 7 (emergency
response and crisis management in New York City and at the Pentagon). Now in private
practice, he was the Attorney General of New Jersey (a nonpolitical appointed position in
that state) and, in that position, led the New Jersey emergency response to the 9/11
attacks.

Alvin Felzenberg. Professional staff member. Currently at VOA, after working for
Secretary of the Navy Englund. Directed the Heritage Foundation's project on
presidential transition procedures, editing the book, Keys to a Successful Presidency.
Worked as a Hill staffer from 1994 to 1999.

Susan Ginsburg. Professional staff member and likely leader of Team 4 (Immigration,
Non-Immigrant Visas, and Border Control). Senior official in the Treasury Department's
Enforcement Division from 1994 to 2001. Also clerked for Judge Higginbotham on the
3rd Circuit and worked in the State Department's Narcotics Bureau from 1979 to 1981.

Charles Hill. Consultant. Lecturer and Diplomat-in-Residence at Yale. Retired career

diplomat with particular experience in the Middle East; served as chief aide and lead
Middle East policy coordinator for Secretary Shultz from 1983 to 1989. Special
consultant to the UN Secretary General from 1992 to 1996. Co-author with Boutros-
Ghali of Egypt's Road to Jerusalem.

John Ivicic. Security Officer. Career CIA official, comes to the Commission from
serving as the security officer for the Congressional Joint Inquiry.

Michael Jacobsen. Professional staff member. Worked on FBI team for the
Congressional Joint Inquiry. Formerly an assistant general counsel and intelligence
analyst in FBI's National Security Division.

Bonnie Jenkins. Professional staff member. Fellow at Harvard's JFK School's Belfer
Center. Assistant director of the State Department's Kosovo History Project from 1999
to 2001, formerly worked on the National Commission on Terrorism (1999-2000) and as
general counsel for the Commission on the Organization of the Federal Government to
Combat Proliferation of WMD. Also a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval
Reserve.

William Johnstone. Professional staff member. Senior policy adviser to Senator Cleland.
Formerly served in the Labor Department and as chief of staff and legislative director for
Senator Wyche Fowler.

Stephanie Kaplan. Special Assistant. Formerly chief of staff for the foreign policy
program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, working with John Hamre
and Kurt Campbell.

Miles Kara. Professional staff member. Worked on the 'other agencies' team of the
Congressional Joint Inquiry. Retired DOD official, who worked in the DOD IG's Office
of Intelligence Review from 1992 to 2001.

Thomas Kelley. Professional staff member. Worked on the FBI team of the
Congressional Joint Inquiry. Retired FBI attorney and special agent who worked as the
Deputy General Counsel of the Bureau from 1985 to 2001.

Christopher Kojm. Deputy Executive Director. Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Intelligence Policy in the State Department since 1998. Previously a senior staffer for
Lee Hamilton handling foreign policy issues on Capitol Hill.

Gordon Lederman. Professional staff member. Associate in the national security law
group of Arnold & Porter. Clerked for Judge Robert Cowen (3rd Circuit). Author of
Reorganizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 (Greenwood,
1999).

Patti Litman. Professional staff member. Worked on the CIA team of the Congressional
Joint Inquiry. Previously a manager at Boeing, after 13 years at CIA with experience in
the Intelligence, Operations, and Science & Technology Directorates.
Douglas MacEachin. Professional staff member and likely leader of Team 2 (on
intelligence collection, analysis, and management). Retired career CIA analyst who left
CIA in 1995 as the Deputy Director for Intelligence. Has since become a historian,
publishing four books and monographs on the intelligence-policy relationship (most
recently on the Polish crisis of 1980-1981, published by Perm State UP). Has just
completed a classified study on strategic planning for intelligence collection against the
current terrorist target.

Ernest May. Consultant. Currently the Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard.
Author of a number of books, including most recently Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest
of France; The Kennedy Tapes; Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Policymakers
(with Richard Neustadt); and Knowing Your Enemy: Intelligence Assessment in the Two
World Wars. Longtime director of Harvard's Intelligence and Policy Project and member
of the Board of the Joint Military Intelligence College.

Lewis Moon. Professional staff member. Worked on the CIA team of the Congressional
Joint Inquiry. Retired career CIA analyst, most recently served in CIA's Office of the
Inspector General from 1996 to 2001.

Mary-Rose Papandrea. Professional staff member. Visiting law professor at UConn after
practicing for a few years at Williams & Connolly after clerking consecutively for Judge
John Koeltl (S.D. New York), Judge Douglas Ginsburg (D.C. Circuit), and Justice David
Souter.

Kevin Scheid. Professional staff member. Currently a special assistant to DDCI Joan
Dempsey for community management. Experience in intelligence community
management and intelligence community budgeting at OMB. Staff director of the
NSPD-5 intelligence review and staff member of the Aspin-Brown Commission (1995-
1996).

Kevin Shaeffer. Professional staff member. Navy LT medically retired due to severe
injuries sustained in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. Previously served on the CNO's
staff.

Tracy Shycoff. Deputy for Administration. Career civil servant with GSA.
Administrative officer for three other federal commissions, including current commission
on International Religious Freedom and the commission on Holocaust assets.

Yoel Tobin. Professional staff member. Veteran attorney at the Department of Justice,
working for the last seven years in the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice
Department's Criminal Division.