The 9/11 Commission: Working Together to Keep America Safe

Abstract

Michael Hurley, a career CIA officer, has twenty-one years in that organization. He served on the 9/11 Commission's staff as a senior counsel and director of the counterterrorism policy investigation. In the course of the investigation into the September 11 attacks on the United States, the team he headed interviewed more than 150 officials and reviewed hundreds of thousands of pages of sensitive documents. His team took the lead in organizing the March 2003 public hearings of highest-level officials of the Clinton and Bush administrations, and the early April public hearing of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security advisor. His team drafted substantial portions of the policy chapters of the Commission's final report.