1. A number of reasons. The Gorlick wall comes to mind. That and zero ACTIONABLE intelligence as to the WHO, the WHEN, and the HOW of the attacks.
2. OMFG... Someone lied. Trying to CYA. Yes. And? Did or did not the Commission later get the needed information? (The answer is yes)
2a. Someone may have lied in a small facets oft eh report so the whole report cannot be trusted? BS.
3. Ignoring that they got the funding and the information they needed and spoke out in favor of the FINAL report. A point you can't seem to grasp. In your world a football team that is down 14 points has lost even though they outscore the opponents at the end of the game.
4. Citation?
1. The author of the Gorlick wall memo was chosen to sit on the Commission. 'Set up to fail' describes that decision remarkably well. Just more CYA, right?
1a. Despite evidence that suggests 2 out the 3 terror cells responsible for the 9/11 attacks were identified by military intelligence prior to the attack, executive director Philip Zelikow never presented this information to the Commission. It's been speculated, with good reason, that Zelikow was the Bush administration's weapon for preventing important facts from reaching the Commission's investigation.
Beyond the Commission, Bill Clinton's failure to liquidate OBL was what I had in mind when I said "good intelligence wasn't acted upon by those in power." It took CIA officer Michael Sheuer to inform the world that Clinton had been offered Bin Laden's location from CIA counterterrorism efforts no less than 8 times in 1998-1999, and refused to order a strike. On one occasion, Sheuer described how after being informed of OBL's location, Clinton, Richard Clarke, and Sandy Berger decided to have a call placed to OBLs visitor, warning him that he'd been spotted. Maybe this is why Berger later stuffed classified documents down his pants, and later destroyed done some of them? Possible.
2. See, you really don't believe in the veracity of the hearings.
2a. The Pentagon's lies are just one issue here. There are at least a dozen more. It all adds up to that 'corrupted... cover up' that Max Cleland spoke of.
3. The government covered their ass, received huge increases in funding, and most important, got their War in Iraq. Billions of dollars were made, Zelikow was rewarded, Gorlick collected $30 million from Fannie Mae, and now serves as Jared Kushner's attorney.
No one took responsibility, except of course for the 3,000 Americans who died violent deaths, and those who continue to die every year from respiratory illness and cancer.
Kean and Hamilton got what they needed. Too bad the rest of America didn't.
4. I posted it already in this thread.