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Scott Moritz discusses how 9/11 fundamentally changed the FBI and its operations.

Ed. Note: Five years ago, Tom Fox looked back on 9/11 in a 20-year retrospective. This week is the 25th anniversary of that event. We will be rerunning this award-winning podcast so we never forget. On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack, Tom Fox and guests look back on the tragic event and what it meant for them personally, as well as how it impacted the world of compliance. Today, Tom’s guest is Scott Moritz for this episode of Looking Back at 9/11, where Scott talks about how the events of 9/11 impacted the FBI. ⁠How 9/11 Changed The FBI: Structural and Cultural Ambidexterity 9/11 fundamentally changed the FBI overnight. Scott remarks that for a long time after 9/11, the FBI was primarily focused on the attack on the Trade Center. That was the Bureau’s main investigation, and all FBI field offices and virtually every foreign attaché office in the world worked on it. Many scholars, through various organizational studies and surveys, assumed that the FBI would have created simultaneous frontline structures and processes to balance its two competing missions: national security and law enforcement. The scholars also posited that the FBI might engage in cultural…

People in this episode

Host: Tom Fox

Guest: Scott Moritz

Topics covered

• 9/11 retrospective
• FBI changes
• national security
• law enforcement
• compliance impact

Keywords

• 9/11
• FBI
• national security
• law enforcement
• compliance
• Scott Moritz
• Tom Fox

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI

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