If you are unfortunate enough to have the NYT copy of the report, skip the first 100 pages where the NYT tears down the country. It was sickening. The report itself is fairly comprehensive and unbiased. I tried to read the NYT slant and was truly surprised to see how anti-American they are and that was back in 2004 when it was published.

Read the report, skip the anti-American rhetoric at the front.

never forget …
i will forget 99% of this

I don't know how one can even begin to rate such a document. A useful read if one wants to see how a body of bipartisan electeds encouraged the proliferation of the surveillance state under which we all now live; anticipate the arrival of Obama as a liberal President who championed defense; name the hot potato Israel and the U.S. played with regards to which nation might be Bin Laden's millennium attack(s); intimate that Clinton's feminine liaison did not supplement but distract the President from foreign policy and defense; and provide some rather banal statistics that jar the mind of one who was a child on September 11, 2001. For example: "The 9/11 attacks cost somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to execute."

That was some dry listening. Not like a mouthful of saltines dry, more like a nice pretzel with the occasional dab of garlic dill dip dry.

Thorough and detailed review of 9/11 and essential reading for understanding that slice of history. It certainly didn't cover everything it could have and many of the recommended policies either didn't happen, failed, or fizzled. It is what it is though, and it's a fantastic information dump with some genuinely engaging portions considering it's a government report.