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Brookings and Harvard: Press Coverage and the War on Terrorism

Rudman-Hart Commission Warns of Terrorist Attack: Why Did the News Media Ignore It?

Terrorism, U.S. Politics, Homeland Security, Media & Journalism


Event Summary

On January 31, 2001, former Senators Warren Rudman and Gary Hart and their United States Commission on National Security issued a final report warning that "Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers," as a result of terrorist attacks. The commission recommended that the government create a National Homeland Security Agency to deal with the threat. That was more than seven months before terrorists flew jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,