March 31, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "Major recommendations by a bipartisan commission that
investigated the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks remain unfulfilled
nearly 10 years after the attacks, the commission chairmen told the
Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday," begins a story distributed by McClatchy Newspapers today. "Former Rep. Lee
Hamilton, D-Ind., and Republican former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean said
that the federal government had made "considerable progress" in
implementing several of the 9/11 commission's recommendations but that
it had languished or failed to implement other key suggestions."
Hamilton, a 1952 graduate of DePauw University, told the Senate panel, "The
terrorist threat will be with us far into the future, demanding that we
be ever vigilant. We have done much, but
there is much more to do."
Access the complete article at the website of North Carolina's Raleigh News & Observer.
A Democrat, Lee H. Hamilton served 34 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and also co-chaired the Iraq Study Group. Currently he is co-chairman, with former White House
National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, of the U.S. Department of
Energy's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, and is director of the Center on
Congress at Indiana University.
On March 15, Hamilton -- who has been called Lee Hamilton "Mr. Integrity" by Newsweek
-- presented a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture at his alma mater. A summary including video clips may be accessed here.