9/11 Commission Formally Disbands
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The Sept. 11 commission closed down Friday, but its members plan to continue testifying before Congress and traveling the country to try to get the government to improve homeland security.
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Sixteen detainees were transferred out of the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to authorities in Saudi Arabia, Pentagon officials announced yesterday, amid discussions within the Bush administration about how to close the facility.
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With the ouster of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the original Iraq War team is now all gone -- with one exception
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US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announces his resignation from President Bush's cabinet.
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WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a massive reorganization of the United States intelligence community to address the Sept. 11 commission's complaints that the nation's spy agencies don't work together properly to deter terrorist attacks    The bill, approved on a 96-2 vote, would create a national counterterrorism center and also a position of national intelligence director who would coordinate most of the nation's nonmilitary intelligence agencies...
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Senators rejected the Sept. 11 commission's recommendation for congressional oversight and adopted their own plan as they prepared for final negotiations with the House on reorganizing the spy agencies Congress supervises.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman   Mineta, who spearheaded an unprecedented overhaul of   transportation security after the September 11 attacks,   announced his resignation on Friday.
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The commission probing the Madrid train bombings ends its hearings amid political disagreements.
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NEW YORK, December 7  - A federal court ruled yesterday that the destruction caused by the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center constitutes two separate events.
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After a five-year fight, the U.S. government has dropped its effort to prevent a volunteer firefighter killed at the World Trade Center from receiving a federal death benefit for public safety officers who die on the job.
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A nonprofit organization for 9/11 survivors removed its president after questions were raised about her harrowing account of how she survived but lost a loved one in the World Trade Center attack.
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Description: Noah Adams talks about the resignation of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge with a commissioner on the 9/11 panel, a domestic security researcher and the mayor of a town on the US-Mexico border.
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The agenda is dominated by the 9/11 report - a rare triumph for a panel that no longer officially exists.
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Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger,   a national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, was voluntarily disbarred from the practice of law yesterday by the D.C. Court of Appeals.
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As clock winds down on 108th Congress, lawmakers focus on 9/11 commission goals.
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WHITE HOUSE Two of President Bush&#39;s staunchest allies in fighting terror and cutting taxes are stepping down. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans have resigned.
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Homeland Security Secretary Tom  Ridge, who has headed President Bush's efforts to build up  domestic security following the Sept. 11 attacks, resigned on  Tuesday.