9/11 Commission Leaders Lee Hamilton And Tom Kean Push For Changes In U.S. Terrorism Fight
By The Christian Science Monitor
Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:17 EDT
Two of the top officials on the 9/11 Commission are calling for a review of current US counterterrorism policy 12 years after the attacks on the Pentagon and Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
Today, the good news is that the chances of “a large-scale, catastrophic attack by Al Qaeda occurring in the United States are small,” argue Lee Hamilton and Tom Kean, the former chair and vice chair of the 9/11 Commission.
That, they say, is the result of US counterterrorism operations over the past three years in particular.
At the same time, however, there are more Al Qaeda-allied groups who have put down more roots in more places.
“The threat we currently face is dramatically different from twelve years ago,” they write in a letter released Wednesday. “We need to review our current strategies to ensure that we have the smartest counterterrorism policies in place so tragedies, like the one we are remembering today, do not happen again.”
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