🗓️ Event: 25 Years After 9/11

📅 Date: September 17

⏰ Time: 7:00 PM EDT

✍️ Register: https://signp.e2ma.net/signup/2104996/1968319

📍 Location: Van Metre Hall Auditorium, Mason Square, 3351 N Fairfax Dr, Arlington, VA

🎥 Livestream: YouTube @haydencenter

🎓 Hosted by: Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the question is no longer simply what happened on that September morning. The question is whether we are prepared for the next one.

A generation of Americans has grown up in the shadow of the attacks, while the nation has fought wars, dismantled terrorist networks, transformed its intelligence and counterterrorism institutions, and watched the threat evolve in ways few anticipated. Now, as new adversaries, technologies, geopolitical rivalries, and terrorist movements challenge the United States, it is time to take an unflinching look at what the past 25 years have taught us—and where we may still be vulnerable.

Join the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security for an extraordinary conversation with:

—Philip Reilly, 29-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency, including service as deputy commander of the legendary Operation JAWBREAKER team, CIA’s deployment into Afghanistan just two weeks after 9/11, as head of CIA’s paramilitary operations, and as a chief of station in Afghanistan, Europe, and the Far East.

—David Martin, CBS News’ multiple Emmy-and DuPont-Columbia University award-winning national security correspondent since 1983, with previous stints at Newsweek and the Associated Press.

—Damon Stevens, newly retired Deputy Director of the National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center and a former Assistant Director of the National Counterterrorism Center;

We are excited that Jennifer Griffin, Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent, will moderate the discussion.

Drawing on decades spent leading, conducting, and reporting on America’s intelligence, defense, and counterterrorism efforts, this distinguished panel will examine the lessons of 9/11, the threats we face today, and whether the United States is truly organized, equipped, and prepared to confront what comes next.

This is more than a look back at history—it is a conversation also about the next 25 years of American security.

Bring your questions for a live discussion with our panel.

🍷 Reception to Follow
All attendees are invited to a complimentary reception with light fare. Beer and wine will be available for purchase.

🎥 Can’t attend in person?
Watch live–or later–on YouTube and the Hayden Center website.

The Hayden Center is located at George Mason University‘s Schar School of Policy and Government in Arlington, VA. General Hayden, our founder and former Director of both the CIA and the National Security Agency, has been a distinguished visiting professor at Schar School for 17 years. 

For more about the Hayden Center, visit our website at haydencenter.gmu.edu. 

Catch up on all of our Hayden Center events here on our YouTube channel!