Absolutely incredible. For the first chapter, I was immediately intrigued on how the whole thing came together and something worth reading and not something that seemed like a CSPAN transcript or something. Can the in depth analysis and reporting get any better for one of the worst days in American history? I don't think so.

Definite recommended reading for anybody interested in 9/11, the lead up to it, and how we ended up invading Afghanistan. So glad I carried a highlighter while reading so I can revisit things I am more interested.

Deduction of a star because the last two-three chapters of the book were aged. I would have liked a 20 year update to the book as it concluded with what we had learned in 2004.

Really liked it.

While there is a lot of material here and not all of it is exactly engaging, it is a very important and, in my opinion, well-researched and presented document that makes for a very harrowing read.

Meticulous research, but perhaps not the best book to serve as a general introduction to this topic. Best thought of more as a database. By the nature of their task, they had to include every little detail. Can make for tiring reading.

There's a lot of gaps after reading this 9/11 commission report and still a lot of unanswered questions. Hence why there are conspiracy theories out there. It seemed so easy for the hijackers to just get on the planes.

This is definitely one of the more interesting books that I've read. In this book, everything about the subject is in there. Everything that happened before, during, and after. I learned so much from reading this book that I had never known before and have seen just how much we have changed since this happened. While this book isn't for everyone, I would highly recommend it to history buffs or anyone interested in government.

Very insightful and interesting. It lead me to different locations where I had to seek more information. I could see it as moving yet not a pretext to knowing where to end. War is so ... we attacked the wrong nation. I enjoyed the book.

Part cold, hard novelization of the events, part extremely detailed outline of the history and intelligence surrounding the events of 9/11, it was at times an easy read, at times difficult, but overall, comprehensive and extensive.

Mostly bureaucratic navel gazing and hand wringing, contains shockingly little analysis or explanation of the events that occurred on September 11, 2001.

As far as I can tell, this is a thoroughly researched narrative of the events leading up to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Also, it is straight-forward and surprisingly readable. I am impressed that the commission was able to issue a unanimous report. Certainly there are holes in the research, but if you are interested in the full the story of 9/11, this is a good place to start.

This book is an incredibly good read considering the genre (committee report). Keeping track of all the names is harder than reading War and Peace and I hope that one day they'll publish and indexed version so that it would be easier to go back and link up people with their various roles in the plot and its aftermath. Compelling, scary, instructive, but also makes you wonder what isn't in there that we also ought to know.

Reading this while I was also watching 24 on DVD was an interesting study in contrast. In real life the American government seems bungling at best when it comes to counter terrorism surveilance and technology and the terrorists seem to be functioning at the most basic level (yet they succeed). On 24, the government has every necessary tool to surveil and track terrorists (and they have a ready, willing, and able torturer on hand to get anything that the satellites fail to disclose), and the terrorists are all high tech super stars (who rarely succeed). Huh.

This books was written as a report but even so it reads very well and is very interesting. I think that it is important that people read this book to see how complex the events leading up to the attack and the events around the world are. I also think it is an eye opener which shows just how hated the USA is by some other nations. My personal though on this is that they can kiss my butt, were the greatest nation in the history of the world and I could care less what they think. But, its important that we realize how we are seen so we can be prepared to defend ourselves or be prepared to deal with what may come.

The book is full of details and a bit long only because in is so detail rich, but I think it should have been longer and broader int its scope, expecially given the flaws we no know existed in the commission itself. I think it should be revisited now that some time has passed, more info is available and tensions are such that a more thoughtful exam is possible. But then I guess its possible tha it would simply be turned into political fodder.

After well over a decade on my bookshelf and several months of reading, I have finally completed The 9/11 Commission Report. The last three chapters were particularly interesting as they detailed the governments response to the attacks, including the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as well as laying the foundation for the War on Terror.