9/11 Panel Orders FAA to Turn Over Documents
An independent commission studying the Sept. 11 attacks has voted to subpoena the Federal Aviation Administration, ordering the agency to hand over documents for its inquiry.
The panel said it had learned that the agency had not turned over tapes, statements, reports and other documents “highly material to our inquiry.”
One commission member said the documents relate in part to lingering questions over how, and how quickly, the FAA notified U.S. air defenses about hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001.
The subpoena is the first issued by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
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