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The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11 John Farmer. Riverhead, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59448-894-8

Farmer, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, updates the commission's report in this thorough and bipartisan analysis. Drawing on newly declassified records and recent investigative reports from the departments of defense and transportation, the author concludes that the failure to detect and prevent the attack “lay in the nature of modern government.” Most significantly, “rules proscribing information-sharing” within and among agencies meant that no one had complete access to all available intelligence or information—typical “bureaucratic inertia” that presaged the government's bungled response to Hurricane Katrina. Farmer faults the disconnect between decision-makers and operational employees, concluding that “leadership was irrelevant on 9/11” and the official version of events “was almost entirely, and inexplicably, untrue.” Farmer's conclusion that bureaucratic government “does not adapt fast enough to changing missions to be effective” is not original, but in his careful exegesis of the events of 9/11, he transcends easy generalizations to expose the fault lines in contemporary governance and point the way to fundamental reform. (Sept.)

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6670067.html">Publisher Weekly nonfiction reviews

ATLANTA — A federal judge ruled Thursday that airlines and other companies in the industry that are being sued by families of terrorism victims can't question FBI agents about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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The government argued that it would be impossible to interview the employees without disclosing classified or privileged material that could cause serious damage to national security and interfere with pending law enforcement proceedings.

Judge: Airlines can't question FBI in 9/11 suits

So does this mean Farmer is disclosing classified or privileged material that will harm national security and interfere with pending law enforcement proceedings? Or does it mean the DOJ is making false statements to justify an outrageous cover up over 7 years after 9/11?

We cannot read all the records the 9/11 Commission used to write their report. We cannot read the full CIA IG report. We cannot read 28 pages of the JI report which evidently detail Saudi support for al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar. Yet we can read John Farmer's book. Note the contrast in classification review times between NARA records and whoever reviews the 9/11 commission books. Why is the review process for the books so much faster than it is for NARA records? The 9/11 Commission records were turned over to NARA in '04!

Are the people involved in all of this truly proud of their conduct? Do they really believe this is an honest effort at transparency?