Miles Parks
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The NPR Politics Podcast · How 9/11 reshaped U.S. intelligence | Sources & Methods · 12 Sep 2026
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It's the NPR Politics Podcast.
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I'm Miles Parks, here with a special episode today from NPR's national security podcast, Sources and Methods.
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It was recorded in front of a live audience here at NPR on Wednesday.
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They gathered former top intelligence officials to talk about nine eleven twenty five years later, what happened that day behind closed doors at the highest levels of government, and how nine eleven is still shaping global events today.
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Here's sources and methods from NPR.
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It's Monday, September 10th, 2001.
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President George W. Bush is in Jacksonville, Florida.
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He's there promoting early childhood education, one of his key campaign issues when he ran for president in 2000.
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Afterward, he goes to Sarasota, Florida, on the state's Gulf Coast.
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The next morning, he's at Booker Elementary School for another education roundtable.
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He's in a class with students as they're going through a reading lesson.
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That morning, there are reports of some kind of plane crash in New York City, but details are pretty scarce.
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Then, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card comes over and whispers something in the president's ear.
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Camera shutters capture the
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Two other hijacked planes would crash that day, one into the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and one in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Nearly 3,000 people were killed.
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Bush talked to the nation that night with more reflections from the day, but he also made a promise.
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exactly that meant, though, was an open question.
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This broad notion of fighting terrorists, fighting those who harbor them, and fighting really anyone who threatens the United States has defined much of the American foreign and domestic policy since.
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It's the NPR Politics Podcast.
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