[oceanview]

who is "they"? the air traffic controllers who saw these planes wildly off course and seemingly didn't alert anyone? if Kean really wanted to produce a beneficial report, he would have targeted the failures of that permanent bureaucracy that the other poster talked about. Instead, it appears as if he is selling out to the media elites and giving them what they want, a political report, so he can get his name into a NYT op-ed page as a "hero".

[Dolphy]

who is "they"? the air traffic controllers who saw these planes wildly off course and seemingly didn't alert anyone?

I think that is "they" he is referring to here. It has always been my opinion that September 11 was a massive failure of leadership through the last decade. That includes Clinton and Congress.