What Happened to the Hart-Rudman Commission

question 39

Multiple Choice

What happened to the Hart-Rudman commission?

• A) The commission found that few security holes were present and was later blamed for not warning anyone about 9/11.
• B) As is often the case in Washington when faced with difficult problems, the commission was created, studied the issues and made recommendations that then died.
• C) They recommended the PATRIOT Act, but the bill was extremely unpopular until after 9/11.
• D) They found a few reforms to make and these reforms were implemented, but they did not go far enough.

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