THURSDAY: Roundtable with National Security Experts on the 9/11 Attacks Twenty Years Later

(WASHINGTON) – On Thursday, September 2^nd, the Committee on Homeland Security, chaired by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), will hold a virtual roundtable discussion with national security experts and academics who have studied the causes, responses, and consequences of the September 11, 2001 attacks for the past two decades. The purpose of this roundtable is to discuss the history and context of the 9/11 attacks – particularly questions about that day, the country’s response, the shift in our institutions, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, and changes in American society that can now be more fully addressed with twenty years of hindsight.

This virtual roundtable will be streamed live on YouTube and on our website.

Event details:

WHAT: Roundtable Discussion - 20 Years After 9/11: A Retrospective

WHEN: Thursday, September 2 @ 11 am EDT

PANELISTS:

• Daniel Byman, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, Professor at the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service's Security Studies Program, and former Staff Member on the 9/11 Commission
• Mr. Garrett M. Graff, Journalist, Historian, and Author of The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
• Mr. Christopher A. Kojm, Former Chair of the National Intelligence Council and Deputy Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission
• Amy Zegart, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Center for International Security & Cooperation at Stanford University and Author of Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11

Updated info and livestream available here.

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