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Albany, NY – The co-chairs of the September 11th Commission, Former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean and Former Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton have written the new book, Without Precedent: the Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.
The two write about the challenges of completing their work on the commission with little money, a tight timeline, constant wrangling to gain access to classified documents, and the necessity of forging a consensus among Republican and Democratic commissioners.
WAMC's Joe Donahue spoke with Governor Kean and Congressman Hamilton about why they wanted to tell the story of the commission, five years after 9/11...
The name of the book by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton is Without
Precedent: the Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission. It is published by
Knopf. They spoke with WAMC's Joe Donahue. We will continue our conversation tomorrow when we talk about recent terror plots, Iraq and what should be next.