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Steven Holt: “Mr. Chairman, today we have an opportunity to take an important step for the security of our Nation to establish an…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2002
Mr. Chairman, today we have an opportunity to take an important step for the security of our Nation to establish an independent, and I want to emphasize that, bipartisan, and I want to emphasize that, commission, external commission that will determine where our defense and intelligence systems failed on September 11, so that we can prevent future tragedies and we can say with assurance that there were defense and intelligence system failures on September 11, and in order to identify those, we need help, for people to step back and look at it. ... This independent commission is about fact finding, not fault finding. We need to look at our government's weaknesses and correct them. It is our duty as legislators.
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Advocating for the establishment of an independent commission to investigate failures in defense and intelligence systems post-September 11.

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