Episode 1039: 25 Years After 911 — Confronting the Next Generation of Threats
About this episode
Rick Crawford discusses the evolving threats to America 25 years after 9/11 and the need for a new intelligence approach.
Twenty-five years after September 11th, is America ready for the next generation of threats? House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford joins Newt to discuss the bipartisan task force review of the original 9/11 commission report — what worked, what didn't, and what must be built for the dangers ahead. Crawford warns that the post-9/11 intelligence architecture, designed for counterterrorism, is now facing a threat environment that has expanded far beyond it: AI-guided drone swarms, gray zone warfare, cyberattacks on water treatment facilities, Chinese infiltration of agricultural research institutions, and adversaries who organize not around our bureaucracy but around our vulnerabilities. A former Army bomb disposal technician, Crawford brings a "left of boom" mindset to the conversation — and a stark warning: America cannot afford another failure of imagination. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
People in this episode
Host: Newt Gingrich
Guest: Rick Crawford
Topics covered
- 9/11
- intelligence
- national security
- cybersecurity
- threat assessment
- bipartisan task force
Keywords
- 9/11
- threats
- intelligence architecture
- cyberattacks
- AI-guided drones
- national security
- bipartisan task force
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Organizations: House Intelligence Committee, Gingrich 360
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