Ben Rhodes

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12,021 appearances 36 recordings 12 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 6d ago

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Pod Save the World · Can Germany’s Far Right Be Stopped? · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

As someone who worked in obviously national security, uh has had uh interaction with nine eleven even before that uh time in the White House with the nine eleven commission. voice-verified

And and and the question is this you know, even though bin Laden didn't achieve his kind of stated objectives, right, of uh overthrowing uh uh uh Arab regimes and driving the United States uh out of the region, uh you could mount an argument, couldn't you, that nine eleven voice-verified

eleven is one of the most successful terrorist attacks in history, viewed from the vantage point of voice-verified

where the United States stands today um in our our overreaction. voice-verified

I mean how how do you assess the the impacts of nine eleven both against bin Laden's intentions uh and against uh the outcome that you know we're living with today? voice-verified

Yeah, y y your your your book obviously uh traced the story both of uh Al Qaeda's emergence and its intentions and ambitions and ultimately its success in attacking the United States, uh and also the failures of the United States government to effectively defend the country, the failures of in information sharing from the CIA to the FBI, the fail I mean uh you know, we we don't have to detail them. voice-verified

uh here. voice-verified

Picking up on that last point you made. voice-verified

Is is now we're seeing voice-verified

This administration kind of target the intelligence community. voice-verified

You know, the the FBI's get run by Kash Patel, their uh you know, m agents are doing immigration enforcement instead of counterterrorism. voice-verified

Uh the DNI was Tulsi Gabbard and now, you know, we've had a m musical chairs there. voice-verified

Um, you know, the CIA is Trump seems to have an almost adversarial relationship with. voice-verified

Uh how would you describe voice-verified

Informed by your experience of seeing a series of policy and bureaucratic failures voice-verified

before nine eleven and the Looming Tower, how would you compare the the things that concern you about voice-verified

the the state of play today when you look at those same agencies, those same instruments of US government power and intelligence gathering and law enforcement, uh, as it relates to the the different terrorist threat we're facing. voice-verified

Yeah, and and and you know, particularly parts of the population that uh really are not the area where you would see terrorism emerging from uh generally. voice-verified

I mean I I I wanna kinda connect this back to where we weren't wrong, 'cause I think it's kind of related to how you focus things and get them right now. voice-verified

Because voice-verified

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