Hahahaha! No it was done so that early in Obama's first term of office he would not have had an Islamic terrorist strike on his watch. It was STRICTLY sleazy politics on his part and on the part of ALL the Dems who agreed with his utterly insane designation for the terrorist strike.
Bingo. Ding ding ding. Didn't want the label. It would have been like Bush calling 9/11 a collection of mechanical accidents.