September 11, 2001

Primary Documents related to the events of September 11, 2001.

President

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents is published every Monday by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration and contains statements, messages, and other Presidential materials released by the White House during the preceding week. 1993 to present.

White House

Congress

Legislation Related to the Attack of September 11, 2001 provided by the Library of Congress.

Commissions

Gilmore Commission: Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (RAND)
Hart-Rudman Commission: U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century
National Commission on Terrorism

Follow the Money...

The trail of money that funded the hijackers and their activities is an important piece of the investigation into the events of September 11. Below are selected documents and Internet sites related to tracking illegal monetary activity such as money laundering, and related to freezing terrorist organizations assets.

2001 National Money Laundering Strategy
Report released September 19, 2001 (U.S. Department of the Treasury).
Executive Orders. President of the United States.
1. Executive Order 12947
  Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process. January 23, 1995. (Clinton)
2. Executive Order 13099
  Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process. August 20, 1998. (Clinton)
3. Executive Order 13129
  Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With the Taliban. July 4, 1999. (Clinton)
4. Executive Order 13224
  Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism. September 24, 2001. (Bush)
5. FACT SHEET ON Executive Order 13224
  September 24, 2001.
State Department, United States
1. Foreign Terrorist Organizations 1997
  Designations by the Secretary of State. October 8, 1997.
2. Foreign Terrorist Organizations 1999
  Designations by the Secretary of State. October 8, 1999.
3. Foreign Terrorist Organizations 2001
  Designations by the Secretary of State. October 5, 2001.
Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section
(U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division)
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network FinCEN
(U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Foreign Terrorist Asset Tracking Center (FTAT)
No Internet presence as of 10/04/2001. The FTAT is a new U.S. Federal multi-agency task force that will identify the network of terrorist funding and freeze assets before "...new acts of terrorism take place."
Office of Foreign Assets Control
(U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Federal Reserve, United States
The United States Federal Reserve is the Central Bank of the United States. The Federal Reserve Internet site does not mention the investigation specifically, but the Federal Reserve does monitor U.S. banking activity and is one source of information for the investigation.
Hearing on the Administration's "National Money Laundering Strategy for 2001"
U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - Dirksen 538.

Collections

Online collections of relevant primary U.S. Government documents.

Documents Specific to the Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks.: FindLaw
General Accounting Office, United States: See Special Collections -- Terrorism, Reports from 1980 to present.
September 11th Source Books: Online Readers on Terrorism, Intelligence and the Next War. National Security Archives (George Washington University)
Terrorism Background and Threat Assessments: Federation of American Scientists (FAS). FAS "aggressively" pursues declassified documents through the Freedom of Information Act. With the exception of the originals at the National Archives, many of the documents here are not available elsewhere either in print or electronic form.