# Anyone Else Reading the 9/11 Commission Report? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-reading-the-9-11-commission-report/257019 "2004-07-27T00:40:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-reading-the-9-11-commission-report/257019/1 "2004-07-27T00:40:37Z")
I just bought it today, and I haven’t had a chance to get to reading it yet. I just wondered if I was the only one who was actually going to read the thing. My husband predicts it will be very boring, but as I told him, I managed to get through Clinton’s _Health Care Proposal_. If I can handle that, I think I can manage the _Commission Report_– it’s at least in narrative form. So, who else plans on reading it? ---
**Author:** ![ReadMore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ReadMore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReadMore)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-reading-the-9-11-commission-report/257019/2 "2004-07-27T04:12:40Z")
Where’d you buy it? U.S Printing Office? Amazon? Link please? ReadMore ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-reading-the-9-11-commission-report/257019/3 "2004-07-27T04:32:55Z")
Who is paying for the report and why? You can download it in PDF format from CNN’s website… [http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/07/22/9.11.full.report/index.html](http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/07/22/9.11.full.report/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-reading-the-9-11-commission-report/257019/4 "2004-07-27T05:05:27Z")
> [@ReadMore](#): > > Where’d you buy it? U.S Printing Office? Amazon? Link please? > > ReadMore You can get it from Amazon, but I bought mine at B. Dalton in my local mall. I’d imagine just about any book store is going to carry it. It was ten bucks. I’d rather have it in book form, though, than download it. I’ve never liked reading e-books. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-reading-the-9-11-commission-report/257019/5 "2004-07-27T05:15:33Z")
I am going through the PDF myself. (The book would be nice though, could read it in the ‘library’). What should be stressed to those who might normally shy away from official ‘reports’: The 9/11 Report is _very_ readable. Not the dry sort of stuff you would expect from a gov’t report. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-reading-the-9-11-commission-report/257019/6 "2004-07-27T05:55:12Z")
**DWMarch** That link works just fine. However when I go to click on the downloadble files, I just get that broken link icon. You think CNN is getting deluged with requests? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-reading-the-9-11-commission-report/257019/7 "2004-07-28T00:35:14Z")
I tried it just now and had no problems. You probably just had the misfortune to try when they were busy. These sites have the report in chapter-size bites: [http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/](http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/) [http://www.9-11commission.gov/](http://www.9-11commission.gov/) [http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/911comm.html](http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/911comm.html) These are the entire 7.5 MB report in one modem-killing chunk: > **[911Report.pdf](https://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/911Report.pdf)** > > 7.23 MB > **[20040722\_911Report.pdf](https://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/20040722_911Report.pdf)** > **[fullreport911.pdf](https://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/fullreport911.pdf)** > > 7.13 MB