Three weeks after the terror attacks, the Norwegian government appointed an independent commission to study what had happened and to make recommendations for measures to prevent or respond more effectively to future threats. Exactly a year after its creation, on August 13, 2012, the 22 July Commission released its report to the nation. “Every day for a whole year,” the commissioners wrote in the opening paragraph, “we have worked together to find the answers to three key questions: What happened on 22 July? Why did it happen? And more fundamentally: How could our society have let this happen?”
Following are excerpts from the English version of the report:
