Latest "9-11" stories

Biden honors 9/11 victims as shadow of Afghan war looms

President Joe Biden has marked the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, laying a wreath at the Pentagon.

5 months ago

Close the Pentagon — it’s too big of a target

Why maintain a highly concentrated target for adversaries?

By James Hasik

2 years ago

Broad new war authorization roils US lawmakers

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said he wants to reach consensus on his expansive new war authorization before putting it to a vote, but that consensus seemed far away Wednesday.

5 years ago

CIA nominee toughens interrogation stance, picks up support

CIA nominee Gina Haspel wrote that she had learned “hard lessons since 9/11,” in comments aimed at clarifying her position on now-banned torture techniques.

5 years ago

Trump CIA pick’s links to torture to fuel confirmation battle

Sen. John McCain says President Trump’s pick for CIA director was involved in “one of the darkest chapters in American history” and needs to explain her stance on torture programs.

5 years ago

Corker touts ‘progress’ to replace war authorizations

Republicans and Democrats have argued for years that the war authorizations Congress passed after 9/11 have since been overstretched by successive presidents and that Congress must reassert its war-making powers.

5 years ago