The law that created the 9/11 Commission in late 2002 directed the Commission to “make a full and complete accounting of the circumstances surrounding the attacks.”
How well did the 9/11 Commission follow the money?
On p. 172 of its final report, issued over a decade ago, the Commission concluded:
“To date, the U.S. government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately, the question is of little practical significance…”
The 9/11 Commission was not charged with determining whether or not the U.S. government had been able to determine the origin of the money. The Commission was charged with making a “full and complete accounting” of their own.
In other words, it sounds like they punted.
This past weekend, the U.S. government released a chapter from the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11, which had been undertaken before the 9/11 Commission’s inquiry. This chapter had been classified for over a decade.
The chapter included more than a few apparently factual statements regarding the “origins of the money used for the 9/11 attacks.” With multiple references to bulk shipments of cash.
Those statements are either factual, or they are not.
The 9/11 Commission was either telling the truth, or it was not.
Regarding the truth, or lack thereof, here’s one interesting perspective.
The co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission issued their own statement over the weekend, as well.