Mary Louise Kelly
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The NPR Politics Podcast · How 9/11 reshaped U.S. intelligence | Sources & Methods · 12 Sep 2026
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A day that began with a brilliant blue sky, a day that ended in horror.
The nine eleven 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.
I'm Mary Louise Kelly bringing you a live taping of a special episode on the biggest national security story I have ever covered.
We're gonna talk it through with the four of you, and we have picked the four of you carefully, because you each had a front row seat.
to what happened that morning and in the days that followed.
Um, but very different seats, really different vantage points to give a
Slightly more detailed introduction.
Um Stephen Hadley was serving as deputy national security advisor in the Bush White House.
Jane Harmon was a Democratic member of Congress representing California on the intelligence committee, which she went on chair.
John McLaughlin was deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Michael Moral was also at CIA and was President Bush's CIA briefer on the plane with him that morning.
Um, welcome to you all.
I'm gonna start with the where were you and what sticks with you and I will share that I was
In the NPR newsroom, um, quite a few of us had turned up for work on that beautiful Tuesday morning, and we didn't go home for four days.
We stayed here till Friday.
They rolled in cots and we slept in the hallways and we just worked.
And I remember thinking this is the biggest story I will ever cover.
And that has proven to be so.
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