Newt Gingrich and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford examine the lessons of 9/11 and the emerging threats America must prepare for now.
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, the intelligence system built in their aftermath faces a fundamentally different test. The reforms that improved coordination among America’s intelligence agencies were largely designed to confront terrorism. Today, the threats extend far beyond terrorist networks. Artificial intelligence, autonomous drones, cyberattacks, foreign espionage, biological threats, and attacks on critical infrastructure have created vulnerabilities that reach deeply into American communities and the private sector.
On this episode of Newt’s World, Newt Gingrich talks with Congressman Rick Crawford, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, about the committee’s bipartisan review of the 9/11 Commission recommendations and what America must learn from the last 25 years. Their conversation explores why adversaries increasingly target vulnerabilities rather than traditional military defenses, how America’s food and water systems have become national security concerns, and why preventing the next catastrophe will require the country to rediscover one of the most important lessons of 9/11: We cannot afford another failure of imagination.
