Biden Marks Two Decades Since 9/11 With Shift in U.S. Priorities
- President who helped craft U.S. response now unwinding it
- Biden will visit New York, Pennsylvania, Washington sites
President Joe Biden walks to Marine One prior to departure from the White House to travel to New York City and Pennsylvania to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
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Few Americans have been closer to the wars, legal debates and political discord that split America following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks than Joe Biden.
As a senior senator, Biden helped write legislation that shaped the U.S. response to the attacks. As vice president, he advised Barack Obama on the continued U.S. retaliation, including the 2011 raid into Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden.