The FRONTLINE Interviews:

America After 9/11

Our Sources. On the Record. At Your Fingertips.

To produce America After 9/11, FRONTLINE conducted more than two dozen original interviews and drew on our archive of hundreds of interviews from 20 years of filmmaking about the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. Thirty-five interviews that appear in America After 9/11 can be explored below in video or text. The collection is part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, which makes our source material available to the public.

Interviews

Rasha Al Aqeedi
Analyst and Writer

Video
Gérard Araud
Former Ambassador

Text
Peter Baker
Journalist, The New York Times

Text
Gary Berntsen
Former CIA Agent

Text
John Bolton
Former National Security Adviser

Text
Andrew Card
Chief of Staff to George W. Bush

Text
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Journalist and Author, Little America

Video
Jelani Cobb
Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Text
Ryan Crocker
Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq

Text
Leila Fadel
Journalist, NPR

Text
David Frum
Speechwriter for George W. Bush

Text
Susan Glasser
Columnist, The New Yorker

Text
Jeffrey Goldberg
Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic

Text
Bruce Hoffman
Counterterrorism Adviser

Text
Valarie Kaur
Civil Rights Activist

Text
Jack Keane
Former Army Vice Chief of Staff

Text
Azmat Khan
Investigative Journalist

Text
Jane Mayer
Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Text
John McLaughlin
Former Deputy Director of the CIA

Text
Evan Osnos
Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Text
David Petraeus
U.S. Army

Text
Stacey Plaskett
Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives (D-USVI)

Text
Jonathan Powell
Former Chief of Staff to the U.K. Prime Minister

Text
Colin Powell
Former Secretary of State

Text
Ahmed Rashid
Journalist and Author, Descent Into Chaos

Text
Ben Rhodes
Former Deputy National Security Adviser

Video
Thomas Ricks
Author, Fiasco

Text
John Rizzo
Former CIA Chief Legal Officer

Text
Eugene Robinson
Columnist, The Washington Post

Text
Gary Schroen
Former CIA Officer

Text
Emma Sky
Military Adviser

Video
Ali Soufan
Author, The Black Banners

Text
Darlene Superville
Journalist, Associated Press

Text
Fran Townsend
Counterterrorism Adviser

Text
Philip Zelikow
Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission

Text

Interviews for this film were conducted by Jim Gilmore and Gabrielle Schonder of the Kirk Documentary Group and edited for the web by Phil Bennett and Lauren Prestileo. The Transparency Project is produced by Phil Bennett and Lauren Prestileo.

 

Design and build for America After 9/11 by Dan Nolan and Anthony DeLorenzo with assistance from Kimberly Patch. Video editing by Kenzie Audette. Copy editing by Julie Wolf. Additional assistance from Miles Alvord, Tessa Maguire, Priyanka Boghani, Lila Hassan, Patrice Taddonio, and Jennifer Wehunt.

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