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http://www.msnbc.com/news/990850.asp?pne=msntv
Sept. 11 panel to subpoena NORAD
Air defense command promised records but didn’t deliver
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 — The national commission investigating the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks voted Friday to subpoena the records of the North
American Aerospace Defense Command for information it promised but did not
deliver.
IT WOULD be the second subpoena issued by the commission, which has
complained of delays by some government agencies in providing information
needed to complete the investigation by a May deadline.
The commission subpoenaed the Federal Aviation Administration in
October, accusing it of slowing the probe by not providing timely and
complete information.
The panel in May requested information on air traffic control
tracking of hijacked aircraft and the agency’s communication with NORAD,
the U.S.-Canadian military alliance that scrambled fighter jets during the
attacks.
Some members of the commission are interested in the time sequence
for notifying the jets that headed to Washington where one of the hijacked
planes struck the Pentagon.
“The commission has encountered some serious delays in obtaining
needed documents from the Department of Defense,” the panel said in a
statement.
Stephen Cambone, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence,
said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld expected the department to comply
with schedules for document submissions.
“The commission has a statutory deadline it must meet,” Cambone
said. “And the secretary has directed that the department be responsive to
help ensure the commission can meet its deadlines.”
The 10-member National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the
United States is examining lapses in national security related to the Sept.
11 attacks, which killed about 3,000 people in New York, suburban
Washington and Pennsylvania.
The commission has previously said it might subpoena the White House
to gain access to intelligence reports given to the president if that
information was not turned over.
President Bush said last week that he was willing to give the
commission limited access to at least part of the daily intelligence
reports given to him before the attacks.
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