Miles Parks

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The NPR Politics Podcast · The legacy of 9/11 · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

Under all these different presidents basically have kind of found different ways to use this legislation in different places that were not related to the specific place and the specific voice-verified

How did the U.S. voice-verified

military broadly change, Greg, as a result of 9-11? voice-verified

Because I do remember I was in school when the attacks happened. voice-verified

I remember all around me in my community, friends, parents of friends. voice-verified

I mean, people were rushing to enlist or to find something that they could do. voice-verified

Did that have an impact on the U.S. voice-verified

military or what legacy has this all had on the U.S. voice-verified

military? voice-verified

And we're back. voice-verified

So now I want to talk domestically, Ryan, about all the changes post 9-11 that happened within the country's intelligence agencies and the Justice Department. voice-verified

How did the attacks change everything going on in this country? voice-verified

Well, voice-verified

Yeah, good voice-verified

Definitely. voice-verified

And I think that's why, I mean, I think Americans broadly at that time were willing to give up some level of privacy for this sense of security. voice-verified

But I guess I wonder when that started to shift in terms of when people started to question the sort of surveillance state apparatus that the United States kind of moved into, when did that start to become problematic? voice-verified

I just wonder, I guess when I'm thinking about everything we've talked about today so far, one of the themes that keeps coming up is sort of honesty from the government. voice-verified

When we talk about the weapons of mass destruction, we talk about what you're talking about with the Patriot Act and the surveillance of Americans, Guantanamo Bay, and things that have come out since about all the different ways that the CIA has treated prisoners. voice-verified

I guess I wonder how much a lot of this stuff has fed into a broader distrust of the American government in the last 25 years. voice-verified

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