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SD B2 DOD 1 of 2 FDR - 6-10-04 Commission Request To DOD For Certification of Compliance With Document Requests - 7-21-04 DOD Response 740
SD B2 DOD 1 of 2 FDR - 6-10-04 Commission Request To DOD For Certification of Compliance With Document Requests - 7-21-04 DOD Response 740
INTELLTOSNcr
JUL 2 1 2004
Over the past year, I have represented to the Commission that the
Department's responses have been thorough and complete. You have now
required that there be formal certification that all reasonable steps necessary
to find and produce responsive documents have been undertaken.
You state in your letter that you seek this assurance so that you can
rely with confidence on the Department's document production. My staff
and I are fully aware of the tremendous efforts and great dedication of the
many DoD personnel involved in responding to your requests and assisting
you in your work. I am confident that the Commission can rely on this
response.
Stephen A. Cambone
Attachment:
As stated
TOTAL P.003
Thomas H. Kean
CHAIR June 10, 2004
Lee H. Hamilton
VICE CHAIR
The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
Richard Ben-Veniste Secretary of Defense
The Pentagon
Fred F. Fielding Washington, DC 20301-0001
Jamie S. Gorelick
As you know, the statute that created the National Commission on Terrorist
Slade Gorton Attacks Upon the United States (Public Law 107-306) directs the Commission to
investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding the September 11,2001
Bob Kerrey
terrorist attacks, including the nation's preparedness for, and immediate response
John F. Lehman to, those attacks, as well as to evaluate the lessons learned from those attacks and
to make recommendations for preventing future attacks. In connection with its
Timothy J. Roemer
investigation, the Commission has made 39 separate formal requests for
James R. Thompson documents from your department. The Commission does not anticipate
submitting any further document requests to your department.
Philip D. Zelikow
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR To ensure that the search for, and production of, responsive documents has been
completed, we request that you certify in writing, by return letter, as follows:
"To the best of my knowledge and based upon personal inquiry of the
appropriate officials, the Department has taken and completed all
reasonable steps necessary to find the documents in its possession,
custody, or control responsive to the Commission's 39 document
requests. The Department has produced or made available for review
by the Commission all such responsive documents that it located."
Your personal response to this request is critical to our investigation; it will allow
the Commission to rely with confidence on the document production by your
department. To avoid any delays in completing our work, please reply to us in
writing no later than June 25,2004.
Thank you for your efforts, and for the efforts of many others at your department,
to cooperate with the Commission and to comply with our requests.
Sincerely,