information on the two men with the FBI. 9/11 Commission Report The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission), chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, was formed in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attacks, including preparedness for, and the immediate response to, the attacks. On July 22, 2004, the 9/11 Commission Report was released. The commission has been subject to criticism. Civilian aircraft grounding For the first time in history, all nonemergency civilian aircraft in the United States and several other countries including Canada were immediately grounded, stranding tens of thousands of passengers across the world. The order was given at 9:42 by Federal Aviation Administration Command Center national operations manager Ben Sliney. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, "This was an unprecedented order. The air traffic control system handled it with great skill, as about 4,500 commercial and general aviation aircraft soon landed without incident. Invocation of the continuity of government Contingency plans for the continuity of government and the evacuation of leaders were implemented almost immediately after the attacks. Congress, however, was not told that the US was under a continuity of government status until February 2002. See also 9/11 Commission Guantanamo Bay Bush Doctrine Project Strike Back War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) References External links TURF BATTLES: Conflicting Visions of How to Rebuild Lower Manhattan, New York Times, 21 September 2001 briefing by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 19 September 2001 THE MILITARY: Scarcity of Afghan Targets Leads U.S. to Revise Strategy, New York Times, 19 September 2001 MILITARY ANALYSIS: A New War and Its Scale, New York Times, 17 September 2001 THE WHITE HOUSE: Bush Warns of a Wrathful, Shadowy and Inventive War, New York Times, 17 September 2001 MILITARY ANALYSIS: U.S. Force vs. Terrorists: From Reactive to Active, New York Times, 14 September 2001 NEWS ANALYSIS: No Middle Ground, New York Times, 14 September 2001 MOBILIZATION: Rumsfeld Asks Call-Up of Reserves, as Many as 50,000, New York Times, 14 September 2001 When Journalists Report for Duty, 20 September 2001 NIST reports on WTC, to be released tomorrow: 23 June 2005 CBS News article - 'Shadow Government' News to Congress March 2, 2002 Aftermath of the September 11 attacks Domestic responses Reactions to the September 11 attacks September 11 attacks