Never Forget 25 Years After 9 11, Where We've Been and Where We're Going
Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, John Byrne sits down with Dennis Lormel, who led the FBI's Financial Crimes Program on 9/11 and stood up the Bureau's first Terrorist Financing Operations Section (TFOS) in its aftermath. Dennis shares his firsthand account from inside FBI headquarters that morning, the plan he wrote that night for a centralized financial investigation, and the unprecedented cooperation from banks and government agencies that followed. The conversation covers the warning signs that preceded the attacks, the three-week passage of the PATRIOT Act, the…
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