Mary Louise Kelly

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200 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 6d ago

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The NPR Politics Podcast · How 9/11 reshaped U.S. intelligence | Sources & Methods · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

The point being Congress acted with a speed

And bipartisan un unity that

feels as though it's from a different universe looked at from twenty twenty six.

How were you all deciding

What do we do and in what order?

shortly almost unanimously only one dissent.

Barbara Lee who voted

gonna give the executive open ended, vast, unending

powers and it with the benefit of

overreach.

But if I could just I just wanna quote you and then I'm and I and invite you to get in here, John, because you and I have talked about this over the years in various interviews and you told me something

I was pushing you on some of the actions that the CIA took after nine eleven, which we're about to get to.

You told me in twenty eighteen something that will stay with me, and I'm gonna quote you.

You said if you were a CIA officer back in two thousand two.

You were torn on the one hand by the sense you might be doing something in conflict with basic values that you hold dear.

On the other hand, failure to get that information might put the blood of Americans on your hands, which is about as pure a distillation I have heard of what y'all are describing.

Stephen, uh I know you want to jump in and then I have a follow up.

But

So I was a a young journalist covering my intelligence beat in those years after nine eleven and I

Reported from Afghanistan on the war and then from Iraq on the subsequent war and on abuses at Abu Ghraib and on waterboarding.

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