The Bush administration worked hard for us not to know any of this. They hid it. Many of these details were discovered during the congressional joint inquiry into 9 11. 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. (24:10–24:19)
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Asserts that Congress redacted 28 pages of its report dealing with the hijackers' time in Southern California.
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