SK B2 Commission Meeting 2-27-03 Fdr- Minutes and Memos 219

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National Com mission on Terrorist Attack s Upo n th e United StatesMinutes of the February 27, 2003 Meeting

Governor Kean called the meeting to order on February 27, 2003 at 9:30 AM .All Members except Comm issioner Fielding w ere in attendance.The Comm issioners decided on the following actions:They directed staff to make Com mission access to Congressional Joint Inquirydocuments a very high priority;They expressed their strong interest in a briefing from M s. Eleanor Hill of theJoint Inquiry at the earliest possible date, on a classified basis fo r Members whoseclearances were in order, and on an unclas sified basis for all Members. Commissioners

with clearances would form a Committee on an ad hoc basis for the purpose of reviewingJoint Inquiry D ocuments as soon as possible;They decided to file financial disclosure forms by March 26,2003, in accordancewith guidelines from th e Senate Ethics C ommittee;They agreed on the importance of another staff team, in addition to the eightoutlined by the Exec utive Director, in order to address financial flows in support ofterrorism;They agreed on the importance of staff teams beginning their work, u nderstanding

that resource allocations an d team assignments will shift in accordance with Commissionneeds;A discussion nn the. Cienftral Pnnnsftl nnsifion st i l l iinfiUpH

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The Chair noted his inten t to proceed expe ditiou sly in the selection of a GeneralCounsel who had the support of Commissioners.

The C hair decided, subsequent to the meeting, to hold the next m eeting of theComm ission on Thu rsday, M arch 20th at 9:00 AM .


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M E M O R A N D U MTo: Fellow CommissionersFrom: Tom Kean and Lee HamiltonSubj: Our Meeting on Febru ary 27W e look forward to seeing you on Thursday, in our offices at 2100 K Street. W e againplan to begin at 9:30 a.m. and conc lude at noon. Ou r agenda will be:I. Approval of the M inutesThe minutes from ou r meeting on February 12 are attached.

II . Organization of the C omm ission StaffIn 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 theirtopics:1. Al Qaeda and O ther Major Transnational Terrorist Groups (including financing andflow of assets). This team will use material from several agencies, perhaps obtained b yother teams, as well as open sources, court records, and information from foreigngovernments.

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

2. Intelligence Collection, Analysis, an d Management. C I A , D IA (andJ-2 an d otherDOD and service agencies), NSA, NRO, State/INR, DCI-CMS, DHS/IA-CIP, NS C.2A. Oversight and Resource Allocation. Congressional committees, OMB.

3. International Counter-Terrorism Policy and Diplomacy (including Afghanistan andPakistan). State, NSC.3A . Military Planning and Readiness. OSD, JCS, GENICO M.3B. Covert action. CI A , D OD , NS C.3C . International Law Enforcement an d Financial Tracking. FBI, Treasury, State.

4. Immigration, Non-Immigrant Visas, an d Border Control. INS, USCS, Border Patrol,White H ouse ( including NSC ).


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5. Law Enforcement and Intelligence Collection inside the United States (includinginformation sharing). Justice, FBI, Treasury, USSS, state & local agencies.6. Commercial Aviation an d Transportation Security. FAA, DOT, TSA, airlines, NORAD.

6A. The Four Flights on 9/117. Emergency Response and Crisis Management: New York City and the Pentagon. PortAuthority, FDNY, NYPD, City Hall, OEM, FEMA, DOD , Northern Virginia agencies.

7A. The Experience of the Attack: Victims and Survivors. Open sources, serviceagencies.8. National Leadership: Immediate Response, Crisis Management, and ContinuityContingencies. WHO, NSC, USSS, House of Representatives, Senate.

III. StaffW e have been energetically recruiting a strong staff. Thoug h this process is stillunderway, we have also attached a list, in alphabetical order, of the individuals who havealready accepted offers to work for the Commission. As staff work ou t their separationsfrom their existing jobs they will begin coming on board throughout the month of March,some with full clearances and others working their way throug h that proce ss.

IV. BudgetW e have been analyzing our budget needs and have concluded that we will need torequest significant additional funds. Our current target is a total budge t of $12 m illion forthe duration of our work, until mid-2004. This is a large increase on our currentappropriation of $3 million. W e will be prepared to discuss how we have arrived at thisbudget target.DDC I Joan Dem psey and OM B have put a placeholder for this amount in the FY 03supplemen tal now being prepared for subm ission to Congress. They found our proposalunderstandable and proportionate to the scale of our work.

V. Planning for Initial Public HearingsW e are planning for an initial set of public hearings in New York City, on March 31 andApril 1. This would not be an investigative hearing. It wo uld be an opportunity for apublic dialogue in an early stage of our work , allowing witnesses to discuss their hopesfor the Com mission . It is also an oppo rtunity to receive some initial briefin gs from work


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that has already been done on the New York attacks. We would like to discuss the planfor these hearings, as we consider witness groups, such as:Representatives of the victims - family groupsState and local leadersMem bers of Congress, including key sponsors of the legislation that created theCommissionLocal interest groups - Firefighters? Police?Briefers on reports already done, such as the FEMA -sponsored report of theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers and the FDNY-sponsored report byMcKinsey.

Attachments:1. Minutes of Commission Meeting of February 122. Current Commission Staff List


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National Comm ission on Terrorist Attacks Upon th e United StatesMinutes of February 12 , 2003 Meeting

Chairman Kean convened the meeting at 9:40 AM. All Com missioners were inattendance.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 ofprofessional financial activities an d relationships; Decided on actions to facilitate early release of Joint Inquiry Committee documentsto the Comm ission, and to seek additional Comm ission office space; Decided that Task Forces / Teams of the Com mission would address areas ofinvestigation req uired by Statute, and additional areas as agreed by the Com mission; Decided that Commissioners would submit recommendations on Task Forces /Teams, to be assembled by staff an d circulated fo r review an d decision; Decided that Com missioners would participate actively in Task Forces / Teams,preferably by a process of self-selection, and possibly by a process of designation, tobe determined later; Decided that the Commission would hold public hearings in New York City in lateMarch / early April 2003 at 9:30 AM; and Decided that the next meeting of the Comm ission w ould be held on Thursday,February 27, 2003 at 9:30 AM.

In addition, C omm issioner Ben-Vemste asked fo r inclusion in the record his statement,that in the process of negotiation with the White House, the Comm ission should not takeoff the table any o f the statutory pow ers of the Commission. The Commission expressedagreement with Commissioner Ben-Veniste's statement.


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Current Commission Staff (in alphabetical order)

Scott Allan. Professiona l staff mem ber. Curre ntly special counsel to Richard Holbrooke,focusing on ICC and ICT FY issues. Practice and legal studies focused on internationallaw.Wa rren Bass. Professiona l staff mem ber. Senior Fellow at the Council on ForeignRelations directing the Council's special terrorism project. Author of the forthcomingbook, Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-IsraelAlliance (Oxford UP).Sam Brinkley. Professional staff member. Civil servant and former Marine nowworking in the State Dep artme nt's Coun terterrorism Burea u. Sign ificant governm entexperience in WMD issues and with aviation security.Daniel Bym an. Consultant. Led 'look-back' team and worked on CIA issues for theCongressional Joint Inquiry. Assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown.Previously director fo r research at RAND's Center fo r 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 theLimits of Military Might (Cambridge UP, 2002).Dianna Campagna. Operations Manager. Principal Director of HUD's ExecutiveSecretariat. She has held man agem ent po sitions in the real estate indu stry, and man agedthe paperflow and office systems in the White House Counsel's office from 1981 to1989, and in the Wh ite House Office of the Staff S ecretary from 1971 to 1975.John Farmer. Professional staff member and likely leader of Team 7 (emergencyresponse and crisis mana gement in New York City and at the Pentagon). Now in privatepractice, he was the Attorney General of New Jersey (a nonpolitical appointed position inthat state) and, in that position, led the New Jersey emergency response to the 9/11attacks.Alvin Felzenberg. Professional staff member. Currently at VOA, after working fo rSecretary of the Na vy Englund. Directed the Heritage Foun dation 's project onpresidential transition procedures, editing the book, Keys to a Successful Presidency.Worked as a Hill staffer from 1994 to 1999.Susan Ginsburg. Professional staff mem ber and likely leader of Team 4 (Imm igration,Non -Imm igrant Visas, and Border Control). Senior official in the Treasury Depa rtment'sEnforcement Division from 1994 to 2001. Also clerked fo r Judge Higginbotham on the3rd 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 careerdiplomat with particular experience in the Middle Ea st; served as chief aide and lead


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Middle East policy coordinator for Secretary Sh ultz from 1983 to 1989. Specialconsultant 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 fromserving as the security officer for the Congressional Joint Inquiry.Michael Jacobsen. Professional staff m em ber. Worked on FBI team for theCongressional Joint Inquiry. Formerly an assistant general counsel and intelligenceanalyst in FBI's National Security Division.Bonnie Jenkins. Professional staff member. Fellow at Harvard's JFK School's BelferCenter. Assistant director of the State Department's Kosovo History Project from 1999to 2001, formerly worked on the National Com m ission on Terrorism (1999-2000) and asgeneral counsel for the Commission on the Organization of the Federal Government toCom bat Proliferation of WMD . Also a Lieutenant Com m ander in the U.S. NavalReserve.William Johnstone. Professional staff m em ber. Senior policy adviser to Senator Cleland.Formerly served in the Labor Departm ent and as chief of staff and legislative director forSenator W yche Fowler.Stephanie Kaplan. Special Assistant. Form erly chief of staff for the foreig n policyprogram at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, working with John Hamreand Kurt Campbell.Miles Kara. Professional staff m em ber. Worked on the 'other agencies' team of theCongressional Joint Inquiry. Retired DOD official, who worked in the DO D IG's Officeof Intelligence Review from 1992 to 2001.Thomas Kelley. Professional staff m em ber. Wo rked on the FBI team of theCongressional Joint Inquiry. Retired FBI attorney an d special agent who worked as theDeputy General Counsel of the Bureau from 1985 to 20 01.Christopher Kojm. Dep uty Execu tive Director. De puty Assistant Secretary forIntelligence Policy in the State Departm ent since 1998. Previously a senior staffer fo rLee Ham ilton handling foreign polic y issues on Cap itol Hill.Gordon Led erm an. Professional staff m em ber. Associate in the national security lawgroup of Arnold & Porter. Clerked fo r Judge Robert Cowen (3rd Circuit). Author ofReorganizing th e Joint Chiefs of S t a f f : The Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 (Greenwood,1999).Patti Litm an. Professional staff m em ber. Worked on the CIA team of the CongressionalJoint Inquiry. Previously a manager at Boeing, after 13 years at CIA with experience inthe Intelligence, O perations, and Science & Technology Directorates.


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Douglas MacEachin. Professional staff mem ber and likely leader of Team 2 (onintelligence collection, analysis, and mana gement). Retired career CIA analyst who leftCIA in 1995 as the Deputy D irector for Intelligence. Has since become a historian,publishing four books and monographs on the intelligence-policy relationship (mostrecently on the Polish crisis of 1980-1981, published by Perm State U P). Has justcompleted a classified study on strategic planning for intelligence collection against thecurrent terrorist target.Ernest May. Consu ltant. Currently the Charles W arren Professo r of History at Harvard.Author of a num ber of books, including most recently Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquestof France; The Kennedy Tapes; Thinking in Time: The Uses of History fo r Policymakers(with Richard Neustadt); an d Knowing Your Enemy: Intelligence Assessment in the TwoWorld Wars. Longtime director of Harvard's Intelligence and Policy Project and memberof the Board of the Joint Military Intelligence Colleg e.Lewis Moon. Professional staff mem ber. Worked on the CIA team of the CongressionalJoint Inquiry. Retired career CIA analyst, most recen tly served in CIA's Office of theInspector General from 1996 to 2001.Mary-Rose Papandrea. Professional staff mem ber. Visiting law professor at UConn afterpracticing for a few years at Williams & Connolly after clerking consecutively fo r JudgeJohn Koeltl (S.D. New York), Judge Douglas Ginsburg (D.C. Circuit), and Justice DavidSouter.Kevin Scheid. Profession al staff mem ber. Curren tly a special assistant to DDCI JoanDempsey for community management. Experience in intelligence comm unitymanagem ent and intelligence community budgeting at O M B . Staff director of theNSPD-5 intelligence review and staff mem ber of the Aspin-Brown Com mission (1995-1996).Kevin Shaeffer. Professional staff member. Navy LT med ically retired due to severeinjuries sustained in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon . Previo usly served on the CNO'sstaff.Tracy Shycoff. Deputy fo r Adm inistration. Career civil servant with GSA.Administrative officer fo r three other federal commissions, including current comm issionon International Religious Freedom and the commission on Holocaust assets.Yoel Tobin. Professiona l staff me mb er. Veteran attorney at the Departmen t of Justice,working for the last seven years in the Co unterterrorism Section of the JusticeDepartment's Criminal Division.

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SK B2 Commission Meeting 2-27-03 Fdr- Minutes and Memos 219