But when Congress released its report, the 28 pages dealing with the hijackers time in Southern California were hidden. They were redacted when a man called Philip Zelikow took over as the commission's executive director. He reached a secret agreement with the White House to block his investigators from accessing records related to the hijackers until the White House had already screened them. Government documents show that the commission investigator assigned to this topic complained that quote, zelikow limited the number of witnesses that commission investigators could interview. (24:20–24:34)
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Asserts that Philip Zelikow made a secret agreement with the White House to screen records before investigators accessed them.
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