"The details of what happened on the morning of September 11 are complex.  But the details play out a simple theme.  NORAD and the FAA were unprepared for the type of attack launched against the United States on September 11, 2001.  They struggled, under difficult circumstances, to improvise a homeland defense against an unprecedented challenge they had never encountered and had never trained to meet.."

- From the 9/11 Commission Staff Statement 17, June 17, 2004

MILNET presents the three released Staff Staff Statements from the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States also known as the 9/11 Commission.  The source for these files is at the 9/11 Commission's online document archive.

9/11 Commission Staff Statements

Staff Statement 15  (PDF 81KB)   6/16/2004 Staff Statement 16  (PDF 100KB)  6/16/2004 Staff Statement 17  (PDF 125KB) 6/17/2004