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The 9/11 Commission’s report was a bestseller because it had a simple narrative line that anyone could read and appreciate. Alas, it may have been too simple. It depended on the assertions of two career jihadis, and what they told their CIA interrogators about the plotters and the plot. Investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein says the commission was not allowed to question either the jihadis or the interrogators, and a new investigation of the alleged participation of a jihadi cell in Spain cracks the narrative’s spine.