43 Designed To Fail The 9/11 Commission was formed in 2003. Philip Shenon, the New York Times reporter was assigned to cover the Commission’s investigation. In 2007, Shenon published an amazingly insightful book entitled The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, which documents the stonewalling and undermining from the Executive Branch** endured by the 9/11 Commission and the Congressional Joint Inquiry throughout both federal investigations. [1] As Shenon relates, the Commission staff was capable and dedicated in its investigation, and the basic first steps were executed competently, with the collection of thousands of pages of records and reports. The Commission’s chairman, Republican Thomas Kean, the former governor of New Jersey and his vice-chair Lee Hamilton, a Democratic congressman, honestly tried to keep this project free from politics and to maintain a high level of integrity. They would later confess that they were unable to overpower the White House**. As they wrote in Without Precedent, “the 9/11 Commission was designed to fail.” This is coming from the two vice-chairmen. But, to American voters, if it’s not reported past one or two news cycles in the national news, it simply didn’t happen. An official inquiry into any vital failure of U.S. intelligence or defense should come as a matter of course. On 9/11, we are talking about multiple vital failures. A most effective obstruction to justice turned out to be the placement of Philip Zelikow as the 9/11 Commission’s Executive Director. Zelikow, a former member of the National Security Council for the first President Bush and co-author of the 1995 book that discussed a reformation of world power, entitled Germany United, Europe Transformed. [2] His coauthor was a fellow staffer in his days working for Bush 41, the National Securit
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Philip D. Zelikow
Philip David Zelikow (/ˈzɛlɪkoʊ/; born September 21, 1954) is an American diplomat, academic and author. He has worked as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and Counselor of the United States Department of State. He is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia and was American Academy in Berlin Axel Springer Fellow, in the fall of 2009.
Philip ZelikowCounselor of the United States Department of StateIn office
February 1, 2005 – January 2, 2007PresidentGeorge W. BushPreceded byWendy ShermanSucceeded byEliot A. CohenPersonal detailsBorn
Philip David Zelikow
September 21, 1954 (age 68)
New York City, New York, U.S.EducationUniversity of Redlands (BA)
University of Houston (JD)
Tufts University (MAPhD)
EducationEdit
Zelikow received a BA in history and political science from the University of Redlands, a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center (where he was an editor of the law review), and a MALD and Ph.D. in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Career
Works written or co-writtenEdit
Zelikow has co-written many books. He wrote a book with Ernest May on The Kennedy Tapes, and another with Joseph Nye and David C. King on Why People Don’t Trust Government. Others include:
- Philip D. Zelikow with Condoleezza Rice, Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft Harvard University Press, 1995, hardcover, 520 pages, ISBN 0-674-35324-2; trade paperback, 1997, 520 pages, ISBN 0-674-35325-0
- Philip D. Zelikow with Graham T. Allison, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis 2nd edition Longman, 1999. 440 pages, ISBN 0-321-01349-2
- Philip D. Zelikow with Ernest R. May, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis Harvard University Press, 1997, 728 pages, ISBN 0-674-17926-9
- Philip D. Zelikow, American Military Strategy: Memos to a President (Aspen Policy Series) W.W. Norton & Company, 2001, 206 pages, ISBN 0-393-97711-0
- Philip D. Zelikow with Condoleezza Rice, To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth” Twelve, 2019. 528 pages, ISBN 1-538-76468-7
- Philip D. Zelikow, The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917 (PublicAffairs, 2021).
AffiliationsEdit
Zelikow is a member of the Global Development Program Advisory Panel, Gates Foundation.[citation needed]Government officesPreceded by
Wendy ShermanCounselor of the United States Department of State
February 1, 2005 – January 2, 2007Succeeded by
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- Philip D. Zelikow with Condoleezza Rice, Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft Harvard University Press, 1995, hardcover, 520 pages, ISBN 0-674-35324-2; trade paperback, 1997, 520 pages, ISBN 0-674-35325-0
- Philip D. Zelikow with Graham T. Allison, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis 2nd edition Longman, 1999. 440 pages, ISBN 0-321-01349-2
- Philip D. Zelikow with Ernest R. May, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis Harvard University Press, 1997, 728 pages, ISBN 0-674-17926-9
- Philip D. Zelikow, American Military Strategy: Memos to a President (Aspen Policy Series) W.W. Norton & Company, 2001, 206 pages, ISBN 0-393-97711-0
- Philip D. Zelikow with Condoleezza Rice, To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth” Twelve, 2019. 528 pages, ISBN 1-538-76468-7
- Philip D. Zelikow, The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917 (PublicAffairs, 2021).
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