How 9/11 reshaped U.S. intelligence | Sources & Methods

9/11如何重塑美国情报 | 源头与方法

The NPR Politics Podcast

2026-09-13

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September 11th presented a new kind of national security threat, so a new national security architecture was built to confront it. Has it worked? Are we safer?  This special episode from Sources & Methods, the national security podcast from NPR, host Mary Louise Kelly and former top intelligence officials discuss what happened behind closed doors on 9/11, and how the events of that day are still shaping global events. Those officials were Stephen Hadley, Jane Harman, John Mclaughlin and Michael Morell. At the time of the attacks, Hadley was serving as deputy national security adviser in the Bush White House. Harman was a Democratic member of Congress representing California. McLaughlin was deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Morell was also at the CIA and was President Bush's CIA briefer that very day. This episode was recorded in front of a studio audience at NPR headquarters in Washington D.C. on September 9.  Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy
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  • Here with a special episode today from NPR's national security podcast, Sources and Methods.

  • It was recorded in front of a live audience here at NPR on Wednesday.

  • They gathered former top intelligence officials to talk about 9-11 25 years later, what happened

  • that day behind closed doors at the highest levels of government, and how 9-11 is still shaping global events today.

  • Here's Sources and Methods from NPR.

  • It is really hard to overstate how worried we all were.

  • In the immediate aftermath of 9-11, that we were going to be hit again.

  • A day that began with a brilliant blue sky, a day that ended in horror.

  • The 9-11 attacks presented a new kind of national security threat,

  • so a new national security architecture was built to confront it.

  • Has it worked?

  • Are we safer?

  • This is Sources and Methods from NPR.