America marks 25 years since 9|11

Memories are dynamic, not fixed. Even if what you’re remembering about your own experience isn’t quite how it all happened, those memories serve important roles.

Host Blake Burman follows memorial ceremonies at the sites of the attacks a quarter century ago, and hears from Ashleigh Banfield, who reported from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Weeks before the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a military judge excluded accused mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s statements to FBI agents, finding that prosecutors had failed to establish they were voluntary following his torture in CIA custody.

A new history of the post 9/11 war on terror shows how badly America and its enemies misunderstood the consequences of their own actions.