Former New Jersey governor Thomas H. Kean ® and former congressman Lee H. Hamilton (D-Ind.), the chair and vice chair, respectively, of the 9/11 Commission, laid out the repeated roadblocks they faced in their 2006 book “Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.” The title of Chapter 1: “SET UP TO FAIL.”
“The chief obstacle,” Kean and Hamilton wrote, “was the White House.”