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Found this article that gives a lot of info on how the commission staff worked: Source

With agreement from the commissioners and his colleagues in the front office, Zelikow divided the staff into teams, more or less coinciding with topics in the outline. MacEachin headed one studying Al Qaeda. In time, this team split in two, with Dietrich Snell captaining a group that worked specifically on the 9/11 plot and the movements of the hijackers. Though a lawyer through and through, Snell had prosecuted terrorists in New York, was fascinated by the terrible story, and proved to be both a natural-born historian and a gifted writer. Hurley led the team that focused on U.S. counterterrorism activity prior to September 11.
MacEachin's, Snell's, and Hurley's teams found offices in the premises that Hamilton had obtained from the CIA. So did a team that concentrated on the intelligence community, as well as parts of a team that dealt with terrorist finance. This Special Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF, pronounced "skiff"), essentially one large safe, housed also the front office and the commission's sensitive files. It had the commission's principal conference room. Other staff in Washington and New York worked on topics such as emergency response on September 11, which required less access to highly classified material, but the SCIF was where the commission met and where all drafts for the final report ended up.

Dietrich L. Snell is still with Spitzer's office (or was as of June, 2005) according to this: Source

Good find! There's some very interesting material in this article - the passage below caught my eye, since it blatantly contradicts the entire MSM and Democrat theme of "Bush failed in 2001" and "the Clinton WH was just sooooo on top of these issues".......now the question is, how could Bill Clinton, Sandy Burglar, and Burglar's deputy James Steinberg claim to NEVER have known of the great "Plan Delenda" that Clarke developed for use against Al Qaeda in 1998????? Are they simply lying (likely) and did Burglar deep-six any info about this???? How could Clarke have what he considered to be a comprehensive counter-terrorism plan in 1998 and Clinton, Burglar, and Steinberg tell the 9/11 Commission they knew nothing about it????

"We had seen, for example, an elaborate plan called "Plan Delenda" that was developed by Clarke in 1998. (As our staff statement explained, "the term 'Delenda' is from the Latin 'to destroy,' evoking the famous Roman vow to erase rival Carthage.") It outlined a program of active measures against Al Qaeda. In his private and public testimony for the commission, Clarke made much of this plan. But we found that neither President Clinton nor any individual high up in his administration, including Sandy Berger and his deputy James Steinberg, recalled ever having heard of "Plan Delenda.""