9/11 Panel Accepts Summary of Briefings Under White House Restrictions (washingtonpost.com): "The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks backed away yesterday from a threatened legal showdown with the White House, agreeing to accept a 17-page summary of presidential briefing documents it had sought.
The deal will not allow the full 10-member commission to read the original documents, or have access to notes on the documents taken by some of the commission's own members. The summary -- provided to commission members during a closed-door meeting yesterday -- covered several dozen original intelligence documents and was first vetted by the White House, officials said. "
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