This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell.

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Your mission is ours.

The tone that the president said and he said it more explicitly a day or two later, he said

at one point, you know, we've got to recover from this crisis and then America needs to

get back to work and get back to normal.

But that we here in this room will not get back to normal.

Our job now is to be ever vigilant and to defend this country against this kind of a

pack.

There was a number of alerts where we thought there might be some threat to the White House

and people wanted to whisk the president down into the Pee-Oc to protect him.

And at one point they wanted him to leave the White House again and to go up to Camp David

or someplace more secure.

And the president said, I ain't going anywhere.

You tell Usama Ben Laden that if he wants to find me, he'll find me right here in the

Oval Office at the White House.

This is the first in a series of episodes we are producing to commemorate the 20th anniversary

of 9-11.

In this series, we are interviewing a number of people about where they were, what they

saw and what they did on 9-11.

Our first guest is Stephen Hadley, then President Bush's Deputy National Security Advisor.

We'll be right back with that discussion afterward, word from our sponsor.

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