Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission IgnoredAfter the attacks of September Eleventh, the Family Steering Committee for the 9 11 Independent Commission lobbied for a credible account of what happened without preconceptions about its ultimate finding. The government stonewalled for 14 months, then created the 9 11 Commission. Its senior staff produced an outline of the inquiry's Report, prescribing what it would conclude prior to the investigation. The families presented over a thousand questions