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The White House and the Sept. 11 commission reached an agreement Tuesday giving all panel members access to details from highly classified presidential briefing papers. Commission Chairman Tom Kean and Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton discuss their investigation with Gwen Ifill.

The security barrier Israel is erecting along its border with the West Bank prohibits Palestinians without proper papers from crossing into Israel. Elizabeth Farnsworth gets Palestinian perspectives on the barrier in the second of two reports from the region.

In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet in a speech Thursday denied his agency tailored information to build a case for the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Jim Lehrer speaks with two senators about the agency's…