brian michael jenkins joins us from the rand corporation. senior advisor. if you want to join the conversation, democrats can join in. republicans at (202)748-8001. independent that (202)748-8002. we will take viewers live to the ceremony in shanksville, pennsylvania when that is expected around 9:30 this morning. we may also see some live images from the ceremony at the pentagon and the sour as we are talking with brian michael jenkins. feel free to call in now with your questions and comments. mr. jenkins, since 9/11 as you noted, we have another attack on the scale of 9/11. would you have believed that was possible back on september 12, 2001? >> i think it was possible, but there is extraordinary concern. clearly, intelligence had failed to identify the 9/11 attacks. we had at that time no idea how many more attacks were what specific scenarios might need. in the pipeline. it was certainly a desperate time. we simply could not run the risk of doing nothing, if not ron dayne immediately with every measure we possibly could to prevent a repetition of that

live images from the commemoration ceremony at the pentagon this hour as we are talking with brian michael jenkins questions and comments and mister jenkins, since 9/11 as you noted we haven't had another attack on the scale of 9/11. would you have believed that was possible back on september 12, 2001? >> i think it was possible but then there was extraordinary concern. clearly intelligence had failed to identify the 9/11 attacks. we had that time no idea how many more attacks were, or what the specific areas might be more in the pipeline so it was certainly a desperate time. we simply could not run the risk that, of doing nothing, of not responding immediately with every measure we possibly could to prevent a repetition of that attack. as it turned out, we were able to quickly disperse al qaeda, scatter them. reduce their capabilities. we were able to very, very quickly miles a major intelligence effort worldwide that has continued since then andthat's one of the, i think , developments that people are not entirely aware of. the us intelligence effort and the creation of alliances across the plan

michael jenkins. feel free to call in with your questions or comments. we are talking with brian jenkins. feel free to call in with your questions or comments. would you leave -- would you have believed that that was possible back in 2001. would think it was possible, but there was extraordinary concern. had failed to identify the 911 attack or a wee hat -- 9/11 attack. we had no idea how many more attacks or what this pacific scenario -- or what the specific scenario -- this scenario would be. thatuld not run the risk -- of doing nothing and not responding immediately with every measure we possibly could to prevent a repetition of that attack. as it turned out, we were able to quickly disperse al qaeda and scatter them, reduce their capabilities, and able to quickly mount a major intelligence effort worldwide, that has continued since then. developmentsf the that people are not entirely aware of. the u.s. intelligence efforts and the creation -- the u.s. and creationffort of alliances across the planet have made the terrorists' operational environment a lot more hostile to them. money,em