All the fixin's in Sept 11 commission report

Despite wide spread speculation by the right, the September 11 commission was able to look at every document needed to finish its report. This comes despite some protests that documents that Sandy Berger removed may have changed the outcome of the report.

Thomas Kean, the commission chairman, told reporters he and vice chairman Lee Hamilton were told by Bush administration officials about six months ago that Berger was the subject of a Justice Department investigation into removal of the documents.

The commission staff concluded that no document was withheld or lost, because of Berger's actions, that was deemed essential to completion of the panel's 567-page report, which was released Thursday, Kean said.

"We don't think the integrity of the report is affected," Hamilton said.

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Kean said that the Sept. 11 commission has been assured that they were able to obtain copies of each document that was apparently lost. If those lost documents had written notations on them from Clinton or others, they would have been included in those copies, Kean said.

So there you have it.