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9/11 Commission Report 9/11 Commission Report Continued from Page 24 FAA counter-terrorism expert Bogdan Dzakovic believes that the security failures at airports that allowed the hijackers to board the planes were not due to the failures in the system that the Report identified. Furthermore, he stated that "Many of the FAA bureaucrats that actively thwarted improvements in security prior to 9/11 have been promoted by FAA or the Transportation Security Administration." The report did not mention his name, despite Dzakovic giving the following testimony to the Commission regarding his undercover checks on airport security prior to 9/11: We breached security up to 90 percent of the time. The FAA suppressed these warnings. Instead, we were ordered not to write up our reports and not to retest airports where we “Our enemies have made the mistake that found particularly egregious vulnerabilities, to 9/11 Quotes America’s enemies always make. They saw see if the problems had been fixed. Finally, the From agency started providing advance notification liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.” of when we would be conducting our 3)4-()15 )23+) #; 64, - George W. Bush, President of the 'undercover' tests and what we would be United States 'checking.' . . . What happened on 9/11 was not a failure in the system. Our airports are not “Now, we have inscribed a new memory safer now than before 9/11. The main difference alongside those others. It’s a memory of tragedy between then and now is that life is now more and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only miserable for passengers. Other sources have criticized the of loss and mourning. It’s also a memory of Commission for not digging deep enough to get bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend–even a friend whose to the core of the issues. In a 2004 interview, name it never knew. “ Bernard Gwertzman, of the Council on Foreign - President George W. Bush, December Relations, stated of the Report: 11, 2001 Again, one of the great problems in the commission report is that it looked at exactly “At this critical moment, the United States can one issue — counterterrorism — and none of the rely on its Allies in North America and Europe others. But [U.S.] intelligence users consist of “Today, We’ve Had A National Tragedy” for assistance and support. NATO solidarity more than one million people, many of them in - George W. Bush – Remarks at Emma uniform, and when you talk about budgeting Booker Elementary School. Sarasota, Florida – remains the essence of our Alliance. Our message to the people of the United States is and programming authority, you have to delivered 11 September 2001, 9:30 A.M. EDT that we are with you. Our message to those who consider that. . . . Many of these conclusions are perpetrated these unspeakable crimes is equally probably very valuable. But this is a 13-chapter “The terrorist attacks on September the 11th clear: you will not get away with it.” report. Eleven chapters are a masterful were a turning point for our nation. We saw the - NATO North Atlantic Council, 11 Sep description of what happened and what went goals of a determined enemy: to expand the 2001 wrong that led to the 9/11 attack. There is no scale of their murder, and force America to chapter that explains what people did after 9/11. retreat from the world. And our nation accepted There is no chapter that qualifies that this is a mission: We will defeat this enemy. The “Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September only one of many problems in intelligence and United States of America is determined to guard the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who intelligence reform." our homeland against future attacks. As the died in honor. 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