Substack Live: 9/11 and How DOJ and the FBI Changed

Mark your calendar for tonight, Friday, at 5:30 p.m. ET, when I’ll be joined by my friends and former DOJ colleagues Barb McQuade and Mimi Rocah to discuss the Justice Department’s transformation in the wake of 9/11 and what that means today for the important mission of protecting Americans from foreign terrorism.

Mark your calendars to join us tonight, and leave your questions for us in the comments. We’ll discuss what’s on your mind on the 25th anniversary of the attack, as well.

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Earlier this week, I came across a post I wrote on September 10, 2023. It’s very emotional for a lot of reasons, but I thought you might appreciate the look back, because it’s both a discussion of 9/11 and a snapshot of that moment in time, in 2023, where it still seemed possible to prosecute a former president for his crimes, even though the country was less united than ever, even with Trump out of the White House. I wrote:

“That history [9/11] has a sad echo today. We have not come together. We are deeply divided as a country that has come under attack and continues to be threatened by the tide of Trumpism that continues to have a hold on something like 30% of the country and the white supremacist domestic terror groups that Trump has embraced into the fold. We did not unite during a global pandemic or following an attack on our Capitol itself. It is as if a third of the country approved of the attacks that felled the Towers and carved a cleft into the Pentagon. It’s as if a third of the passengers on Flight 93 supported the hijackers, not their fellow passengers who downed the plane in a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, so that no one else—other than themselves—would die.”

9/11 reminds us of the importance of being united, of working together to make democracy work for us. Join Mimi, Barb, and me tonight for some history, some law, some policy, and our thoughts about how we get through this.

We’re in this together,

Joyce

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