Number: RL32519
Title: Terrorism: Key Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and Recent Major Commissions and Inquiries
Authors: Richard F. Grimmett, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: This report highlights key recommendations set out in the report of the 9/11 Commission organized by the following major thematic areas: (1) Focus of U.S. International Anti-Terrorism Policy; (2) Institutional Steps to Protect Against and Prepare for Terrorist Attacks; (3) Intelligence Issues; and (4) Congress and Oversight Issues. A bulleted summary is made, under each of these major thematic headings, of the key recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, the Gilmore Commission, the Bremer Commission, the Joint Inquiry of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, and  the Hart-Rudman Commission. What is provided here is a structured road map to the most important recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, to those recommendations of the three other Commissions, and to those of the Joint Inquiry of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees that are directly related to the recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission set out within each the stipulated four thematic areas.
Pages: 38
Date: August 11, 2004