10 years later: 9/11 Commission members say many of their findings remain unaddressed →
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Senior members of the 9/11 Commission have released their report card on recommendations that remain unfulfilled 10 years after the hijackings. Among the findings they say have not been fully addressed:
- An executive-level Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board charged with safe-guarding the rights of Americans remains virtually non-existent.
- There is still no comprehensive exit system in place for when foreign nationals leave the United States.
- Nationwide standards and consistent security features for identification documents like drivers licenses have not been fully implemented.
- “It is still not clear” that the newly created Director of National Intelligence has better integrated the intelligence community, which should foster the sharing of information between agencies about possible threats. “We are also concerned that there have been four DNIs in six years.”
- Attempts to make it easier for public safety officials to communicate effectively with one another during disasters “continue to languish.”
- The aviation screening system still falls short, and despite a decade of working on the problem, “explosives detection technology lacks reliability and lags in its capability to identify concealed weapons and explosives.”
