Miles Parks

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4,843 appearances 250 recordings 12 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5d ago

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

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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

Are we safer as a country now than we were 25 years ago? voice-verified

I mean, now 25 years on, guys, how would you characterize post-9-11 America? voice-verified

Also, the Muslim community, right? voice-verified

I mean, fears at the time, right after 9-11, I think that was palpable in terms of the way – voice-verified

Americans were turning on each other and people felt very scared in that community. voice-verified

And I think that, to some extent, exists today when you see there's strands of the Republican Party that are arguing that Muslims should be deported from the voice-verified

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All right. voice-verified

Well, that seems like a good place to leave it. voice-verified

Our executive producer is Mathoni Maturi. voice-verified

Our producer is Bria Suggs. voice-verified

Casey Morrell edits the podcast. voice-verified

Special thanks to Dana Farrington. voice-verified

I'm Miles Parks. voice-verified

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