While you were sleeping. (Devil in the Details).(investigating terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001)(Brief Article)

Say you wanted to hire somebody to run an independent, nonpartisan investigation of the intelligence failures preceding the 9-11 terrorist attacks and how the nation handled the crisis once it occurred. Selecting a Bush administration crony might not be the best of all possible picks. But that's precisely the choice the 10-member, bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States--the 9-11 commission, for short--has just made by choosing Philip Zelikow as its executive director. Zelikow, who runs the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of ...