Posted on 09/12/2005 4:09:41 PM PDT by GYPSY286
My son returned to college this semester and he has been assigned a paper on any topic in American history. He has chosen the 911 Commission Report but needs two more secondary sources. He is not permitted to use sources on the net (but he's going to find out if he can use government web sites). Any suggestions on other "books", "speeches" he might use for his secondary sources? His thesis statement is something along the lines of "Why weren't we prepared for 9/11?" Any help from those more knowledgeable than I would be deeply appreciated!
Congressional Record (a government Document)
Congressional Quarterly
Journals such as Foreign Affairs
National Review
etc.
Too bad he can't use websites. If he goes to DNC.org all the answers are there....ACLU.org as well.
Your son can't use my web because it's a personal site and it's on the net, BUT he sure can peruse information and sources from the site.
ON THE NET...
http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html
Thanks to all for the quick response! You sure can count on Freepers!
Begin with former Senator Sam Nunn.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/congress/1996_h/s960313a.htm
The footnotes and endnotes to the 9/11 report provide many primary sources he can use.
"Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror" by Richard Miniter
"Breakdown" by Bill Gertz
"Why America Slept" by Gerald Posner
"The Connection" by Stephen F. Hayes
This is a lot of reading, but well worth while in inderstanding what went wrong.
Aside from sources, I would advise him to proceed with caution and great rigor, and know that many liberal professors will be waiting for him with hatchet in hand if his paper should prove too embarrassing to the Clinton/Gore administration..... a truthful analysis of the failures leading to 9/11 will be no more welcome to most college professors than it would be to the 9/11 O-mission Commissioners....
Will the scope take into account American policy towards all acts of terrorism (domestic and abroad) in the years leading up to 9/11 (including the 1993 WTC bombing)?
Or will the focus be on failures of communication between agencies that already had details that they could not share with other agencies focused on national security?
COVER-UP -- Peter Lance
ML/NJ
"Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations" - Office of the Deputy Attorney General - Jamie S. Gorelick, Secret Memorandum addressed to Mary Jo White, Louis Freeh, Richard Scruggs and Jo Ann Harris; Declassified April 10, 2004
"Improper Handling of Classified Information by John M Deutch" - CIA Inspector General, Report of Investigation, Feb. 18, 2000 - L. Britt Snider & Daniel S. Seikaly
"The Third Terrorist" - Jayna Davis
The first obvious answer is to Google it. There's a better idea if time is an issue or if he wants to have a conservative perspective. I would suggest a search on Free Republic. Bear with me....
The Free Republic articles are all linked to news sources that he can use to read the original article. In addition, the Free Republic comments will help him with what he may want to say, or how to say it. Even though he cannot use the Internet officially, there should be no reason he cannot use the Internet to find specific sources to use in a bibliography or footnotes. Most of the Free Republic links will give him the direct link to information from newspapers, articles, and the government sites database information instead of his having to search their massive database.
If that is not enough, he might consider contacting specific posters on Free Republic based on what he reads in comments, not a blanket question. Not everyone will help, but if he's done the basics and is specific as to what he is looking for, most of us will answer him with specific suggestions or answers.
Sandy "Pants" Berger could help if you don't mind crumpled up documents that smell:-)
As a few well meaning folks have warned. He had be very careful as to what he writes. If he goes to a liberal college things could get rough. He could produce a true "gem" shining with truth throughout and get a failing grade if he ruffles the wrong feathers. Perhaps he can feel out the professor's political views, then depending on what your son thinks he can get away with, write accordingly. Main thing is the process he shall go through will firmly plant in his mind how much went wrong and why. Give time and talent he could generate two versions. Run that by him. Imagine. If he could produce a bullshi! version that just sounds good, for the professor, and one for himself to show others as time goes by. And of course if he hands in a bullshi! version, once he gets his grade he can turn around and mail the real version to the possible Leninist to fume over.
http://www.sperryfiles.com
His book is Infiltration.
Scary stuff. Well-footnoted.
He should also look at unclassified reports and documents relevant to the 911 Commission at the CIA's website: War on Terrorism.
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