Ryan Lucas
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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behemoth of a department.
Parts of what had been Treasury, Coast Guard, transportation, all were brought under this umbrella.
The idea, as the Bush administration put it forward, was to make the country safer, having this one department whose mission was to protect the United States, the homeland.
There was also a major transformation of the FBI.
And this is a huge thing.
Right after 9-11, FBI Director Robert Mueller, who had just come into the job, he shifted 2,000 FBI agents onto counterterrorism work.
There was a massive push, an immediate push to transform the FBI from a crime fighting organization, something that would collect evidence slowly over time, develop a case into what was an intelligence driven organization, one that put an emphasis on combating terrorism.
And the key here was preventing the next attack.
They weren't going to wait until something happened and then try to find those responsible.
They were working to prevent an attack from happening and for more
And it's important to remind people who were not around at the time or were too young to remember the pervasive sense of fear in the immediate aftermath of 9-11.
And particularly if you talk to people who were in senior government positions at the time, concern of more attacks online.
on the horizon of a second wave of attacks.
In just December of 2001, there was a plot stopped on an airplane, Richard Reid, trying to detonate a shoe bomb on a plane flying from Paris to Miami.
There were concerns about potential attacks on subway systems, on train system.
People had to think about everything that was a soft target and how to try to protect that because there was concern that al-Qaeda was plotting to conduct more attacks.
And we did see more attacks.
There were attacks on the London Underground.
There were attacks on trains in Madrid.
But those attacks were overseas.
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