Attack Terrorists and Their Organizations by working with Saudi Arabia, the new Afghan government and other regional governments to root out remaining al Qaida cells.
Prevent the Continued Growth of Islamist Terrorism by rebuilding America's image as a force for morality and criticizing intolerance and human right abuses in Muslim nations, even those allied with the U.S.
Protect Against and Prepare for Terrorist Attacks by increasing use of new security technologies, enforcing visa and immigration laws and improving security in realms outside the aviation industry.
Create a National Counterterrorism Center to reduce overlapping jurisdictions and turf battles among U.S. agencies.
Appoint a National Intelligence Director to ensure one person can implement U.S. strategy without bureaucratic interference.
Reorganize Government agencies in such a way that the inter-agency sharing of key information on threats cannot be questioned for jurisdictional reasons.
Rethink and Streamline Congressional Oversight to ensure that failures are thoroughly investigated, that warnings from lower levels are taken seriously and budgets are spent wisely on priority areas.
Create a National Homeland Security Workforce that draws from existing agencies like FBI, CIA and Defense and develops its own \"culture\" but stops short of creating a separate domestic surveillance agency. ";
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Video: View NBC News and MSNBC clips of major testimony.
Among those who testified to the commission:
President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Dick Cheney, former Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, former national security adviser Samuel Berger and former National Counterterrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke.";
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Commission members
Chairman: Thomas H. Kean, former Republican governor of New Jersey and President of Drew University in Madison, N.J.
Vice-Chairman: Lee H. Hamilton, former Democratic representative from Indiana. Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Panel Members Richard Ben-Veniste. Democrat. Partner in law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. former Watergate prosecutor. Fred F. Fielding. Republican. Senior partner at law firm of Wiley, Rein and Fielding and former counsel to President Ronald Reagan and deputy counsel to President Richard Nixon. Jamie S. Gorelick. Democrat. Partner at law firm of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering, former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration. Slade Gorton. Republican. Attorney at Preston, Gates & Ellis, former U.S. senator from Washington. Bob Kerrey. Democrat. President of New School University in New York City, former U.S. senator from Nebraska. John F. Lehman. Republican. Chairman of J.F. Lehman & Co., a private equity firm, former Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan. Timothy J. Roemer. Democrat. President of the Center for National Policy, former U.S. representative from Indiana. James R. Thompson. Republican. Chairman of the law firm Winston & Strawn, former Illinois governor. Executive Director of commission researchers: Philip Zelikow, executive director. History professor and director of Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. ";
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