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The 9/11 Commission Report — 57 episodes

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Preface

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1. We Have Some Planes, 1.1 Inside the Four Flights

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1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense

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1.3 National Crisis Management

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2.1 A Declaration of War

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2.2 Bin Ladin's Appeal in the Islamic World

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2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda

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2.4 Building an Organization

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2.5 Al Qaeda's Renewal in Afghanistan

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3. Counterterrorism Evolves, 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New

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3.2 Adaptation--and Nonadaptation--in the Law Enforcement Community

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3.3 ... and in the Federal Aviation Administration

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3.4 ... and in the Intelligence Community

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3.5 ... and in the State Department and the Defense Department

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3.6 ... and in the White House

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3.7 ... and in the Congress

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4.1 Before the Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania

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4.2 Crisis: August 1998

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4.3 Diplomacy

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4.4 Covert Action

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4.5 Searching for Fresh Options

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5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs

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5.2 The "Planes Operation"

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5.3 The Hamburg Contingent

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5.4 A Money Trail?

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6. From Threat To Threat, 6.1 The Millennium Crisis

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6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection

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6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole

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6.4 Change and Continuity

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6.5 The New Administration's Approach

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7.1 First Arrivals in California

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7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States

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7.3 Assembling the Teams

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7.4 Final Strategies and Tactics

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8.1 The Summer of Threat

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8.2 Late Leads

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9.1 Preparedness as of September 11

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9.2 September 11, 2001 - part 1

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9.2 September 11, 2001 - part 2

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9.3 Emergency Response at the Pentagon

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9.4 Analysis

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10. Wartime, 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home

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10.2 Planning for War

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10.3 "Phase Two" and the Question of Iraq

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11. Foresight--and Hindsight, 11.1 Imagination

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11.2 Policy

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11.3 Capabilities

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11.4 Management

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12.1 Reflecting on a Generational Challenge

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12.2 Attack Terrorists and Their Organizations

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12.3 Prevent the Continued Growth of Islamist Terrorism

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12.4 Protect against and Prepare for Terrorist Attacks

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13. How To Do It?, 13.1 Unity of Effort across the Foreign-Domestic Divide

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13.2 Unity of Effort in the Intelligence Community

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13.3 Unity of Effort in Sharing Information

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13.4 Unity of Effort in the Congress

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13.5 Organizing America's Defenses