September 11 2011 9/11 Commission Recommendations on
Intelligence Agencies and Information Sharing The National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, commonly
known as the 9/11 Commission, was created in late 2002 to give a
complete account of the September 11 attacks and to offer
recommendations for preventing future terrorist attacks. The
9/11 Commission Report released on July 22, 2004 is the
Commission's answer. The 9/11 Commission Report in a section
titled “Unity of Effort in Sharing Information” characterized
U.S. inter-intelligence information sharing as governed by "Cold
War assumptions": archaic and inappropriate. This archaic view
of information sharing hindered the ability of agencies to
respond to the attacks of September 11 once they were underway,
and inhibited the agencies from predicting the attacks in the
first place.The Commission acknowledged real security interests
in secrecy. However, it asserted that these concerns must be
weighed against other pertinent concerns such