Document Request for Missing Records

The Commission has discovered that few records have been found for a number of
meetings that apparently occurred at the principals and deputies level on sensitive
counterterrorism policy issues between early 1998 and the end of 2000. This includes
meetings of the Principals Committee, the Deputies Committee, the "Foreign Policy
Team," the "UBL Small Group," the "UBL/Khobar Small Group", the "Planning Group,"
or the "Restricted CSG."

These records should apparently have been produced in response to EOP Document
Request #2 or, failing that, EOP Document Request #3. The records appear to have been
handled outside the normal NSC records management system.

The Commission therefore requests that the Executive Office of the President and the
National Archives exert special efforts to locate agendas, briefing papers, summaries of
conclusions, or other records of such meetings. These efforts may require direct searches
of the office files of Richard Clarke and Sandy Berger. Particular attention should be
given to files with papers marked with the codeword "Delenda."

Provided below are some of the meetings (or particular papers) for which no records, or
almost no records, have been produced to date:

1. Tenet and Berger, 1 May 1998, on CIA's UBL operation and killings of Americans in
Karachi.

2. Principals meeting on UBL, held on 4 or 6 June 1998.

3. Principals Committee meeting on UBL, 22 June 1998.

4. Restricted CSG in late July or early August 1998.

5. Principals Committee meeting on Embassy bombings, 8 August 1998.

6. All meetings at the principals or deputies level concerning responses to Embassy

bombings or Operation Infinite Reach that occurred, practically every day, from 11
August 1998 to 19 August 1998.

7. All meetings that discussed possible MONs on UBL in 1998 and 1999.

8. Principals Committee meeting on aftermath of US strikes, 21 August 1998.

9. Principals Committee meeting on aftermath of US strikes, 24 August 1998.

10. "Planning Group" meeting, 25 August 1998.

11. Small group meeting, 28 August 1998.

12. A "four pager" prepared by Clarke for Berger, referred to in an e-mail sent on 8
September 1998.

13. Possible small group meeting on UBL, 17 September 1998.

14. Memo to Berger replying to article in New Yorker (Hersh) piece of early October
1998 criticizing the August 1998 strikes. Memo was requested on 6 October 1998. No
memo was produced.

15. UBL small group meeting, 22 October 1998.

16. Apparent small group meetings in November 1998.

17. Apparent small group meeting on UBL, 4 December 1998.

18. Principals Committee meeting on UBL, 17 December 1998.

19. UBL/Khobar small group meeting, 6 January 1999.

20. Missing "out of cycle memo" on UBL, including discussion of U-2, written on or
about on 11 February 1999.

21. Small group on UBL meeting, 2 March 1999.

22. UBL small group meeting, 19 April 1999.

23. UBL/Khobar small group meeting, 21 May 1999.

24. UBL small group meeting, 25 June 1999.

25. Deputies Committee meeting on Pakistan, 10 November 1999 (including discussion

of terrorism, Taliban, and UBL issues).

26. UBL small group meeting, NSC and CIA only, 3 December 1999 (briefing paper
found).

27. Small group meeting, 22 December 1999 (briefing paper found.)

28. UBL small group meeting, 29 June 2000 (agenda and briefing paper found).

29. Terrorism Update for POTUS. We have found a Clarke cover note, dated 30
September 2000, enclosing two memos. The note is on the first of the two (on Predator).
The second memo, described as a very sensitive terrorism update for POTUS, is missing.
30. Records of all White House meetings on response to the October 2000 attack on the
USS Cole are missing.

31. All records of meetings in December 2000, referenced in various sources and
interviews, are missing.