2001年的911恐怖組織攻擊事件，迄今近7年了，美國人仍餘悸猶存。根據一份朝野一致認同的最新獨立報告表示，恐怖組織的大型攻擊威脅很有可能再度成真，美國目前仍處於十分脆弱的危險狀態。
美國安全合作組織 (Partnership for a Secure America)發布的這份報告，由前聯邦政府911調查委員、獨立專家共同合作，評估布希政府對於國家大型破壞式武器攻擊的防禦程序。
布希政府在防禦持有核武和生化武器的恐怖組織這方面僅被評為「C」等，勉強及格。
美國安全合作組織是非營利團體，目前致力於建立國家安全和外交政策的朝野合作研究中心。
這份報告的作者是民主黨前印第安那州國會議員漢米爾頓(Lee Hamilton)，目前任職於「總統國家安全諮詢會議」(President's Homeland Security Advisory Council)，亦為前911委員會副主席；另也包括前委員主席暨前紐澤西州長基恩(Thomas Kean)，以及共和黨前參議員與現任新罕布什爾州議員路得曼(Warren Rudman)。
布希政府在化學武器恐怖組織的防禦措施，得到這份報告中最高的評分「B」等，評語是：「無法確認化武恐怖組織的威脅，也不能堅持帶領禁止、反制恐怖組織擴張的多國行動。」
報告將禁止核武恐怖組織擴散計畫評為「C」等，指出因機關間協調與長程策略的欠缺、以及美國不符國際期待而受限，並警告美國，應對反制恐怖組織擴張的多國行動堅持到底。
報告在最後譴責布希政府的生物武器條例過於鬆懈，只得到「C」等，呼籲美國應該引領透明協商和增強信心的措施，以提升該條例禁止擴張的實際效能及承諾。
報告詳細內容公佈於網站：Partnership for a Secure America。
Today, almost seven years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the threat of a new, major terrorist attack on the United States is "still very real," and the country is "still dangerously vulnerable," according to a new bi-partisan, independent report that will be released on Wednesday.
Authored by former members of the federal government's 9/11 Commission and independent experts, the report by the Partnership for a Secure America evaluates progress made by the Bush administration to safeguard the United States against weapons of mass destruction.
It gives the administration an overall grade of "C" for its efforts to prevent nuclear terrorist, chemical terrorism and biological terrorism.
The Partnership for a Secure America is a not-for-profit organization "dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy."
The introduction to the report is written by three men - former Congressman Lee Hamilton, a Democrat of Indiana, who served as vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, and currently serves on the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council; former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, a Republican who served as chairman of the 9/11 Commission; and former Senator Warren Rudman, a Republican of New Hampshire.
The new report gives the Bush administration a "B-" for efforts to prevent chemical terrorism, the highest of the three grades given. However, it still faults the administration for "failure to recognize adequately chemical terrorism threat" and "lacking follow through" for multilateral non-proliferation and counter-proliferation initiatives.
The report gives the administration a "C" for efforts to prevent nuclear terrorism. It faults the administration for nonproliferation programs limited by "lack of interagency coordination and long term strategy," and a mismatch of US and foreign expectations." It warns that new multilateral counter-proliferation initiatives are "lacking US follow through."
And finally, the report gives the administration a "C-" for efforts to prevent biological terrorism. It faults the Bush administration for its "disengagement" from the Biological Weapons Convention and urges that the United States, "Take the lead in negotiating transparency and confidence-building measures to promote non-proliferation and compliance" with the convention.
When the report is made public on September 10, it will online at Partnership for a Secure America.
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