Two years after the report was released, the commission's own chairman admitted it was set up to fail. Americans have many questions tonight. Americans are asking who attacked our country? Beginning in the first hours after the attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon, the Bush administration began leveraging the tragedy to launch their next project, a so called global war on terror. The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as Al Qaeda. (01:36–01:48)
CLAIM
Asserts that the Bush administration used the 9/11 attacks to launch the global war on terror.
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