Welcome to the Global Phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

This is a STS special, Surviving my biggest case.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, STS Nation, and welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor.

Tonight we bring you a very special STS Nation series

called Surviving My Biggest Case and you know the face. The best guest tonight is

Robin Dreeke. He has been on before he is a best selling author, a professional speaker, a trainer, an executive coach, a podcast host, a Marine Corps officer, and also a retired FBI special agent.

He was chief of the Counter Intelligence Behavior Analysis

Program.

One of his many jobs was recruiting spies.

We'll get into that a little bit tonight and he's author of the Code of Trust and it's not all about me and just an all around great guy. Robin, thank you so much for doing this. I really appreciate it. We were just

chatting for a minute and we're going to go through the story of 9-11, obviously the most monumental story perhaps of all time, but certainly in our lifetime.

So before we get to that, you've done all these different things, you were in the Marines how did you transition into the

FBI where you were working on the data that terror attack unfolded?

How did I transition?

It was interesting.

We had a recruiter.

My last duty station in the Marine Corps,

I was a captain at Paris Island in South Carolina. I was part of

recruit training. I was a company commander and a I was in charge of if if any Marines are in the

audience that went through boot camp from 1996 on and went through the crucible. The last thing I did in the

Marine Corps, I helped design and write the crucible for the final culminating event for the

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