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Efforts to prevent and respond to terrorist threats
The abolished the Immigration and Naturalization Service and folded its functions into a new , splitting immigration and customs roles into three principal DHS components—, , and —while also absorbing...
Commission cast the that preceded the attacks as systemic—rooted in failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management—and concluded that pieces of critical information existed but were not...
The Obama administration’s Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG) and public fact sheets tied lethal targeting outside areas of active hostilities to a “continuing, imminent” threat and a set of heightene...
The Twin Towers were the centerpiece of the World Trade Center, a 16‑acre commercial complex in lower Manhattan that symbolized U.S. economic power and globalization and were destroyed in coordinated ...
The 9/11 Commission concluded that the U.S. government did not cause the attacks but was plagued by systematic failures—failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management—that left it unabl...