The 9/11 Commission was created in 2002 at the request of the Congress and the US President, George W. Bush, and it was formed by 5 Republican and 5 Democrat representatives. The first aim of the Commission was to present a full account of the circumstances of the 9/11, including preparedness of the attack and the immediate response of the emergency services, agencies involved and the Government. This document was finished and published in August 2004.
The Report is divided in four sections: what happened this day, including the response of the organisms in charge of the security; what happened before that allows the attack, origins and previous attacks of Al-Qaida, and how the US agencies and government have been managed this situation; the analysis of the failures by the members of the commission; a section of recommendations proposed by the Commission in order to avoid a future attack. This review focuses on the two later sections, analysis of the failures and recommendations.
The Commission identified four kinds of failures in the management of the terrorist threat before the 9/11: …show more content…
One of the essential elements is the improvement in Homeland Security, instead of create a new agency responsible of the management of the security within the borders, the Commission proposed to transform the FBI in the agency specialized in national security. This element aroused in answer to the critics that the Federal agency had received because of their management of the terrorist threat. Therefore, the FBI would be considered as the referent in homeland security, with the incorporation of new profiles (analyst, linguistics, surveillances specialist ), which allowed the agency make a more comprehensive approach to the threat
The Report is divided in four sections: what happened this day, including the response of the organisms in charge of the security; what happened before that allows the attack, origins and previous attacks of Al-Qaida, and how the US agencies and government have been managed this situation; the analysis of the failures by the members of the commission; a section of recommendations proposed by the Commission in order to avoid a future attack. This review focuses on the two later sections, analysis of the failures and recommendations.
The Commission identified four kinds of failures in the management of the terrorist threat before the 9/11: …show more content…
One of the essential elements is the improvement in Homeland Security, instead of create a new agency responsible of the management of the security within the borders, the Commission proposed to transform the FBI in the agency specialized in national security. This element aroused in answer to the critics that the Federal agency had received because of their management of the terrorist threat. Therefore, the FBI would be considered as the referent in homeland security, with the incorporation of new profiles (analyst, linguistics, surveillances specialist ), which allowed the agency make a more comprehensive approach to the threat