We’re back with the long-awaited second installment to Tucker Carlson’s 5-part miniseries exposing the truth behind 9/11.
Episode 2 digs into the cover-up that began with the official “9/11 Commission Report” which appears corrupt from the very start.
It’s another great episode.
I’ve got the video and the full transcript for you below.
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FULL TRANSCRIPT:
TUCKER CARLSON:
In January 2000, as the CIA was tracking two future hijackers as they journeyed to Los Angeles, George W. Bush was seven months into his presidential campaign.
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His campaign was working to take down his opponent at the time, Arizona Senator John McCain, by spreading rumors he’d fathered a Black bastard child with a prostitute.
Protesters:
You should be ashamed! You should be ashamed!The following December, two other hijackers — Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the plot, and Marwan al-Shehhi — were finishing their pilot training in Venice, Florida, on the West Coast.
ADVERTISEMENTIn Washington, the Supreme Court ruled that George W. Bush had won the 2000 election.
John McCain wanted to get political revenge.
When he got his chance ten months later, it would have historic consequences.
The official story of what happened on 9/11 comes from a single report — the 9/11 Final Report of the National Commission.
In the two decades since it was released, it has become the basis for all media coverage of the terror attacks that day.
What the media never mentioned is that the commission itself was a farce. It was intentionally underfunded. It was poorly structured. It was, from top to bottom, corrupt.
Two years after the report was released, the Commission’s own chairman admitted it was set up to fail.
George W. Bush:
Americans have many questions tonight. Americans are asking, who attacked our country?ADVERTISEMENTBeginning in the first hours after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Bush administration began leveraging the tragedy to launch their next project — a so-called global war on terror.
Bush:
The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al-Qaeda.Tucker Carlson:
In a normal country, its leaders would insist on an answer to the simple question:How did a terror network closely monitored by United States intelligence agencies — including a unit dedicated to following them at CIA headquarters in Langley — manage to pull off the 9/11 attacks in broad daylight?
That’s the question.
But this is not a normal country.
And it was never answered.
In fact, the Bush administration ferociously opposed any attempt to look carefully at what happened that day.
And that presents a bigger question — why?
What did they have to hide?
Kristin Breitweiser:
My name is Kristin Breitweiser. My husband Ron was killed on September 11th.Tucker Carlson:
Breitweiser is one of four 9/11 widows who became famous at the time as the “Jersey Girls.”ADVERTISEMENTThey were some of the only people in public life in the United States who wouldn’t let it go.
They didn’t believe the official 9/11 story, and they often said so.
They were all over the media for several years, determined to identify government officials who may have been complicit in the tragedy.
In the end, they were ignored.
Breitweiser:
We were looking at a Bush administration that really was not interested in looking backwards.There was a push to immediately go to war.
There was an invasion into Afghanistan, and then there was the cue-up for the war in Iraq.
Bush (at Ground Zero):
I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!Tucker Carlson:
Rather than get to the bottom of what actually happened, the Bush administration immediately exploited the crisis to push for what it really wanted — an invasion of Iraq.In his book Against All Enemies, George W. Bush’s counterterrorism czar, Richard Clarke, said that when he went back to the White House immediately after 9/11, he, quote, “expected to go back to a round of meetings examining what the next attacks would be, what our vulnerabilities were.”
Instead, he realized — with what he called “almost sharp physical pain” — that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were going to take advantage of the tragedy to promote their agenda about Iraq.
And that’s exactly what they did.
ADVERTISEMENTOn the afternoon of September 11, Rumsfeld said his instinct was to hit Saddam Hussein at the same time, not only bin Laden.
The day after the attack, Bush asked Clarke to “see if Saddam did this — see if he’s involved in any way.”
While meeting with the President on September 15th at Camp David, Wolfowitz argued that Iraq was ultimately the source of the terrorist problem and should therefore be attacked.
Breitweiser:
We learned quite quickly that we were not going to get the answers that we really wanted with regard to the murder — the homicide — of our 3,000 loved ones.My husband Ron was 39 when he was killed. He was a really good man.
He was smart and a good dad.
And he had called me on the morning of September 11th.
I was rushing out the door to take my daughter to speech therapy, and I had no idea what was going on.
I didn’t have the television on.
And he was like, “Sweets, it’s me. I’m okay.”
And I had no idea.
I said, “Okay, I’m glad you’re okay.”
And he said, “No, no, put the television on. It’s not my building. I knew you’d be worried — it’s not my building.”
And I put the television on, and I was still on the phone with him.
And I said, “Oh my God! What is that?”
And he said, “You know, there’s an explosion in the building next to me, but it’s not my building. I’m safe, I’m fine.”
And I said, “It looks really bad.”
He said, “That’s why I called. Don’t worry, it’s not my building.”
Then his voice cracked and he said, “Sweets, people are falling out the windows.”
I said, “What are you going to do?”
He said, “I’m going down to the trading floor to see if I can find a television to see what’s going on. We don’t know anything. But I didn’t want you to worry. I love you. I’ll call you back.”
And that was the last I spoke to him.
ADVERTISEMENTThree minutes after we got off the phone, I still had the TV on — and I saw his building explode right where he was.
I just wish I told him to run.
I wish I told him to get out.
I wish I told him, “It’s not safe, something’s wrong, get out.”
But I didn’t.
I think feeling that way — feeling like, “Why didn’t I know? Why didn’t I have a woman’s instinct to say ‘get out’?” — made me want to fight for the commission and everything else, because I felt like the American public deserves to know.
Tucker Carlson:
The Bush administration, which at the time was enjoying a historic 90% approval rating, was pushing a very clear storyline.They told the country that Osama bin Laden had simply caught American authorities off guard.
“There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.”
That was a lie.
And by May of 2002, more than two-thirds of Americans understood that it was a lie.
ADVERTISEMENTThey wanted an investigation into the so-called intelligence failures that led to the attack.
The initial effort to investigate 9/11 was a joint congressional commission led by Senator Bob Graham, a Democrat of Florida, and Congressman Porter Goss, a former CIA officer who would later become the agency’s director, appointed by Bush.
Bob Graham:
These public hearings are part of our search for truth.Tucker Carlson:
Cheney did not want anyone looking into his failures that day — the administration’s failures — and more than anything, he and political strategist Karl Rove were focused on the President’s reputation, on ensuring that he would get reelected.The lengths that the Bush administration went to kill the investigation into 9/11 are shocking.
In the winter of 2002, Dick Cheney called then–Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota and made a threat.
The Veep told Daschle that the leaders of the war on terror would be too busy to get bogged down in preparing for and testifying in front of the committees.
The strong implication was: if you insist, we’ll say you’re interfering with the war effort.
The committee moved forward anyway.
On June 19th, 2002, they discovered that the NSA had intercepted messages from al-Qaeda operatives the day before the attacks, saying “The match begins tomorrow,” and “Tomorrow is zero hour.”
It couldn’t have been clearer.
Someone on the committee leaked those messages to the news media.
CNN broadcast them.
And in retaliation for this — for telling the truth — the Bush administration sicced the FBI, then run by Robert Mueller, on the committee.
Staffer:
The FBI really came down hard on the joint inquiry. They polygraphed, they interviewed, they made all kinds of threats.And when the FBI comes after you, it’s kind of scary — because you’re looking at not only potentially losing your position in Congress but also imprisonment.
It was pure intimidation.
And it had a very chilling effect on the progress of the inquiry and their investigation.
Tucker Carlson:
In the end, Congress did make some interesting discoveries — most of which were redacted in the final report.The Jersey Girls continued to push for the truth.
They were furious. They demanded an independent commission.
George W. Bush’s political enemies agreed.
John McCain’s revenge was an independent commission that would explore the truth about what happened on 9/11.
McCain:
The legislation that calls for a blue-ribbon commission to examine the facts surrounding September 11th.Tucker Carlson:
On November 27th, 2002, President Bush, fearing major political blowback if he vetoed the commission, signed the bill into law — but he managed to neuter the commission in the process.His allies in Congress gave the commission weak subpoena power and limited them to a strict 18-month timeline.
They appropriated just $3 million — nothing by Washington standards.
By comparison, Congress gave 13 times more funding to investigate the Monica Lewinsky scandal and 11 times more for Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russiagate.
The administration and Congress simply didn’t want the public to know what happened on 9/11.
But that wasn’t the only thing they did to subvert the truth.
The White House controlled the commission by choosing the chairman.
Their first choice was Henry Kissinger.
Bush:
Today I’m pleased to announce my choice for Commission Chairman — Dr. Henry Kissinger.Breitweiser:
At the time, I was like 30 years old. I had known Kissinger, but as a stay-at-home suburban housewife, I hadn’t dived into all of his horrible acts and his status as a war criminal.Bush:
Dr. Kissinger is one of our nation’s most accomplished and respected public servants.Tucker Carlson:
Kissinger had served as National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State under Richard Nixon.He pushed a massive expansion of the Vietnam War, including secret bombings in Cambodia and Laos.
There were questions about his role in Vietnam, and his role in the coup in Chile.
Breitweiser:
When we first met him, he gave us this long talk about how honored he was, how it was the responsibility of a lifetime.He said, “It is a great honor to be appointed by the President to be chairman of the nonpartisan independent commission.”
In 2002, he was running a lucrative consulting business called Kissinger Associates.
I researched him and his clients, and we had grave concerns.
He had huge conflicts of interest.
We met him at his Park Avenue office. It was really hot — he had the thermostat up to a hundred degrees.
Cranking up the thermostat is a manipulation tactic — make people uncomfortable so they give in.
At one point, after the niceties, one of the widows asked, “Do you represent any Saudi royals? Anyone in the bin Laden family?”
It wasn’t outrageous — there were relationships between the Bush family and the bin Laden family.
He immediately got flustered, spilled his tea, and feigned that it was his fake eye — which we didn’t even know he had.
We went to clean it up like moms, and he never answered the question.
The next day, he resigned.
News anchor:
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stepped down from the position Friday.Tucker Carlson:
Scrambling to find a new chairman, Bush’s top political adviser Karl Rove called former New Jersey governor Tom Kean and offered him the job.Why was George W. Bush’s political bagman making this phone call? No one’s ever explained.
Tom Kean — the nicest guy on the planet.
Very much a gentleman.
Does not go for the jugular.
After he accepted the job, Kean was dragged to the White House, where the President’s top advisors told him, “You’ve got to stand up. You’ve got to have courage. We don’t want a runaway commission.”
In other words: do what we say.
The White House’s fingerprints were all over the commission.
Chairman Kean ultimately admitted the commission was “set up to fail.”
And that’s absolutely true.
In addition to a meaningless budget, tight timeline, and weak subpoena power, there was another problem — the man Kean selected to run it.
On January 27th, 2003, the commission announced they’d selected Philip Zelikow as executive director.
He was sold as a historian.
But he had a lot of conflicts of interest.
He was an active Bush administration official — serving on a White House intelligence advisory panel.
He had close ties to Condoleezza Rice — coauthoring a book with her, serving on her transition team, and even writing a policy paper at her request in 2002 advocating preemptive invasion.
Zelikow was the perfect person to keep the commission from finding the truth.
He was placed there to play the gatekeeper — to protect the Bush administration and lay the groundwork for war in Iraq.
His first move was to pre-write the entire report before the facts were in.
In March 2003 — before the investigation even began — Zelikow had already prepared a detailed outline, complete with chapters and subheadings.
It was nearly identical to the final book.
His second move was to consolidate power — controlling hiring, blocking staffers from contacting commissioners, and restricting document access.
He made a secret agreement with the Justice Department to block access to Congressional files until the White House reviewed them.
The final report contains 61 references to “finding no evidence” of certain claims.
If you don’t look for evidence, you don’t find it.
At one point, Zelikow pressured a CIA employee to accept Condoleezza Rice’s version of pre-9/11 intel briefings.
ADVERTISEMENTPhone logs show he was regularly taking calls from both Rice and Karl Rove.
We reached out to Rove — he denied regular contact, but that’s false.
Even Zelikow admitted multiple calls, though he claimed they didn’t discuss the commission.
None of it’s plausible.
Why was the commission’s staff director talking to the White House’s political strategist?
From the outset, the commission advanced the Bush administration’s foreign policy agenda.
Zelikow inserted lines trying to link al-Qaeda to Iraq.
Even when removed later, the hearings were stacked with neocons like Abraham Sofaer and Laurie Mylroie — who insisted Iraq was behind 9/11.
By April 2004, former Senator Bob Kerrey confronted Rice about Zelikow’s ties.
Kerrey:
Since he was an expert on terrorism, did you ask Philip Zelikow any questions about terrorism during transition?Rice:
Philip and I had numerous conversations about the issues we were facing. He had worked in the campaign and the transition. So yes.Kerrey:
Did you instruct him to do anything on terrorism?Rice:
To help us think about the structure of terrorism operations — yes.Tucker Carlson:
Incredibly, the man in charge of the official story of 9/11 — Philip Zelikow — was the Bush advisor who decided to demote counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke before 9/11.Yet somehow these details were left out of the final report.
The 9/11 Commission Report was a cover-up from beginning to end.
That’s the truth.
And that’s the most important starting point for understanding what actually happened on September 11th.
The official story is a lie.
What isn’t clear is why our government and subsequent administrations continue the lie.
What exactly are they hiding now?
And more importantly, who are they protecting?
We found out.
That’s in the next installment of our 9/11 series.
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The 9/11 Files: The CIA Recruited The Terrorist Hijackers | Ep 1
Tucker Carlson just released Episode 1 of his long-awaited "9/11 Files" mini-series where he is digging into the TRUTH and the LIES of 9/11.
As expected, Tucker jumps right in and disrupts the official story which we all know is bogus.
Perhaps NOT as expected, Tucker seems to be going down a road that confirms the story that these Osama Bin-Laden terrorists really did hijack the planes.
I have always been skeptical of that narrative, but Tucker is seemingly confirming that but suggesting they didn't do it fully on their own merits but with explicit help and recruitment from the CIA.
Stunning, but not at all surprising given all we now know.
This is Episode 1 of a 5-part series.
Watch here:
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
For 24 years now, politicians, the media, intel agencies in this country and abroad... have all demanded that you believe the official story about 9/11.
And here's what it is. They tell you a group of Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists, many of whom were known to U.S. intel services, somehow managed to evade capture for years as they planned the most significant and elaborate terror attack in human history.
We're told that despite repeated encounters with the FBI, the CIA, local law enforcement, airport security, and foreign intel organizations, the right information somehow never made it to the right people. The government failed because it just didn't have the intelligence it needed.
That's the story. That story is a lie.
Nearly 25 years later, the families of 3,000 civilians are still mourning the murder of their loved ones. Anyone who doubts the official narrative is cast as a kook, a criminal, a fringe conspiracy theorist, and punished. They've been blacklisted, censored, and banned even as the leaders who failed to protect our country on 9/11 used these attacks as a pretense to expand their own powers and permanently transform the United States.
None of this is speculation. All of it is true.
Over the course of this series, you will hear accounts from people who lived it. CIA officers and analysts who were there, FBI agents from the bin Laden unit, and family members of the victims. None of these people are kooks. All of them have firsthand information.
What they'll tell you is that what you have been told about September 11th is not true.
Why are we doing this? Our purpose is in part to make the strongest possible case for a real investigation into 9/11. Twenty-five years later, a new 9/11 Commission. One that is honest. One that is not guided by partisan political interest. One that is not serving foreign powers.
To do this investigation, we spent many months looking into what actually happened and speaking to people who saw it. We pored over thousands of pages of documents, mostly primary sources, but also contemporaneous news reports and declassified government documents.
Over the course of this investigation, we made numerous findings that shocked us — not least of which the apparent role that former CIA director John Brennan played in helping bring the 9/11 hijackers to the United States. And the remarkable lengths the CIA went to protect the 9/11 hijackers from the FBI and from domestic law enforcement.
Telling the full story requires starting before the attacks, going back to something called Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit in 1999.
Mark Rossini:
My name is Mark Rossini. I'm a former FBI agent. So from January 1999 to May of 2003, I was the FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force representative to Alec Station at CIA headquarters.Before 9/11, there were no sources in Al Qaeda. None. There was a group of Pashtun caretakers, okay? They called them the Trod pints. Trod pints were these Pashtun people that were bin Laden's tea boys and tea gals, right? And they were the great source of the Pakistani intel service that was feeding information from the Trod pints to the ISI, to the CIA, about what was going on in Al Qaeda.
They had all the electronic communication, satellite stuff in the world, imagery... I remember looking at images of bin Laden in his courtyard. All that, fine. But what's in his head? What's he saying? What's he doing? These people are 10,000 miles away. They don't give a shit about American law. They don't care about going to jail. They want to die.
How are you going to get a source inside there?
Before September 11th, U.S. intel services got most of their intelligence on bin Laden from what was called the Hada Home Switchboard in Sanaa, Yemen. That was a communications hub that bin Laden and his associates used to communicate with each other. They were at the time living in Yemen. The FBI gained access to this after the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa.
How did we officially get the Hada home in Sanaa, Yemen, on the books, on the radar, if you will? Okay. Nairobi, 1998. August 7th.
John Anticef. Special Agent John Anticef, greatest FBI agent ever in the FBI. Even better than me. John flies over to Nairobi, and one of the perpetrators who chickened out and ran... and lived, Daoud Al-Owhali, Saudi. He gets captured by the Kenyan police.
John flies over from New York and already there have been two FBI agents interviewing Daoud. They were getting someplace, but they really weren't getting that far, right? John walks in and first thing he does, he says, you need some water? You want a drink? Did you eat today? Did you pray? Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. He's like, just relax. Let's have a chat.
He didn't beat him with a phone book. He didn't waterboard him. He didn't pull his fingernails out. He wasn't Mr. Tough Guy like all these people like Dick Cheney want to believe. He talked to him like a human being.
Take me through the day. Talk to me. So I went to the hotel and I got my stuff ready. And did you call anybody? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I called this number.
And he wrote it down and he gave John the number of the Hada home in Sanaa, Yemen, which was the Al Qaeda switchboard that we in the FBI had no clue existed up until that point.
The CIA and NSA did because remember, they had been listening to the Nairobi cell and their activity since 1996. We in the FBI didn't know about that number.
The Hada home wasn't just a communications hub for Al Qaeda. It was the physical home of the father-in-law of Khalid Al Mihdhar, one of the future 9/11 hijackers.
At the end of 1999, listening to that phone is when the CIA and the NSA learn that Khalid Mihdhar is going to be traveling from there to Dubai and then from Dubai onward to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to meet the summit. The summit was a meeting of an operational cadre of Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists from around the world.
He was scheduled to travel on or about January 5th, 2000. The NSA has the ability, did and probably still has, to get any airplane reservation at once in the world and know about it. We knew his passport number, we had the phone, we had everything. So we knew his travel information, we knew what flights he was taking, whose seat he was going to sit in.
The CIA arranges for when he gets to Dubai to be secondary. Not fully questioned, but you know, talk to him a little bit. And then he goes to his hotel room and they arrange to search his room and go in. And when they go in, his passport is there, and they take pictures of it, photocopy it, and they send back the imagery.
And lo and behold, in his passport is a visa to go to the United States of America, issued out of the American consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
According to one recently released court filing, quote, the visas were issued to facilitate an operation run by the Saudis and the CIA spying operation. The station chief in Riyadh at the time was future CIA director John Brennan.
The CIA continued tracking Al Mihdhar to Kuala Lumpur where he met up with other Al Qaeda associates, including Nawaf Al Hazmi, a second future 9/11 hijacker.
He lands in Kuala Lumpur. They entrust the Malaysia Special Branch police to surveil this terror summit in this park in Kuala Lumpur, and to tail them and surveil them, etc. That information ends up in a communication from Kuala Lumpur station, CIA, to CIA headquarters, to Alec Station, to the computer screen of me and Special Agent Doug Miller of Washington Field Office, FBI.
You have this cable that lays out the meeting in Kuala Lumpur, the photocopying of his passport in Dubai, and the learning of the visa to go to the United States of America.
Doug Miller gets up from his cubicle of power, comes over to my cubicle of power and says, hey, we got to tell the FBI about this. I said, Doug, you're damn right. He goes, I'll write up the CIR.
What is a CIR? A CIR is a Central Intelligence Report. Doug writes it, he sends it to me. I approve it. And it goes to the desk of Michael Ann Casey, CIA officer, analyst. And it sits in her queue, her electronic queue. And it doesn't move for a day or two. It should move in a few hours.
I'll never forget it like it was yesterday. I was standing over her, I said, hey, Doug's CIR, it's got to go to the FBI. She said, no, it's not. I said, well, why not? She said, because it's not an FBI matter.
What do you mean it’s not an FBI matter? She said, it's a CIA matter. And when and if we want the FBI to know, we will tell them. And you are not to say anything.
I said, yeah, but they got a visa to come to the U.S. She said, no, we're handling it. And when we want to tell the FBI, we will. I looked at her, she got up, put her hands on her hips, pointed a finger at me.
Now, in my naivete, I believed her. And I have to live with that every day of my life, that I believed her.
As the CIA was blocking the FBI detail from informing the bureau, the hijackers were moving. On January 8, 2000, CIA surveillance teams reported that Al Mihdhar had boarded a flight to Bangkok, Thailand. He was accompanied by a man they identified as Al Hazmi.
According to the official account, this is where the trail went cold. The CIA placed their names on a watch list and asked that Thai authorities track their movements. Three months later, the Thai government reported back Al Hazmi had boarded a United Airlines flight to Los Angeles. Al Mihdhar was with him. The two hijackers had arrived in the United States.
But here's my problem with this whole thing and the whole subsequent investigation of 9/11. You have CIA following one man and then two men all over the planet, and then eventually even to America, landing in Los Angeles, California, and you don't tell the FBI.
But why would the CIA want to hide the highly relevant and potentially dangerous fact that two known Al Qaeda terrorists had just landed in California?
According to a recently released court filing, former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clark told government investigators that, quote, the CIA was running a false flag operation to recruit the hijackers.
When Kofer Black became the head of the counterterrorism center at CIA, he was aghast that they had no sources in Al Qaeda. So he told me, I'm going to try to get sources in Al Qaeda. I can understand them possibly saying, we need to develop sources inside Al Qaeda. When we do that, we can't tell anybody about it.
After Clark made that claim publicly, he received an angry call from former director of the CIA George Tenet, who did not deny the allegations made by Mr. Clark. End quote. But when we reached out to Tenet, his spokesperson denied that the CIA was recruiting hijackers, calling it false rumors and saying, quote, that's categorically not true.
He also recalled that the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, blocked the commission's investigation into the matter at the behest of Condoleezza Rice.
CIA had this delusional grand plan. With their information from listening to the Hada House and their own psychological analysis of everybody in that team, they figured the best way is maybe to recruit somebody who came over from Malaysia — Khalid al Mihdhar and now Nawaf al Hazmi.
We kept the FBI at bay, because we told Mark Rossini and Doug Miller to shut up. So let's just try to get inside there. And that's what went wrong. That was the grand lie, the grand risk, the grand delusion.
You had a duty to protect Americans and you failed because of your fantastical delusion that you could recruit somebody inside the cell.
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The official 9/11 report does not address the CIA's plan to recruit the hijackers. It's not even mentioned. It's possible this is because the CIA blocked 9/11 Commission investigators from talking to the agents who participated in the plot.
Amazingly, the CIA's Director of Operations kept the CIA operative attempting to recruit the hijackers, referred to as VVV in the documents, away from the Commission's investigators. The consequence of this, the Commission's explanation for this story is that the CIA made an honest mistake.
The actual language in the report says the CIA played zone defense and the FBI had a man-to-man approach to counterterrorism. The difference in strategies is why the CIA didn't tell the FBI that terrorists had arrived on American soil.
Incredibly, the Commission investigators didn't ask the CIA director at the time, George Tenet, about the summit in Kuala Lumpur or why the CIA had blocked the FBI from being warned. It wasn't the story they wanted.
And that is the crux of the matter. And that is the truth. And no one has ever answered those questions. No one has the balls to, because they're afraid, because the house will come tumbling down.
So how exactly did the CIA try to recruit the 9/11 hijackers? Well, one amazing thing about their arrival is that they didn't try to hide. The hijackers used their real names. While in the United States, they operated in plain daylight.
Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar lived in San Diego for more than a year before the attacks. They lived openly. In fact, they were so open that Hazmi's name, address, and home phone number were listed in the San Diego phonebook.
When they arrived, the hijackers encountered a Saudi intel operative called Omar Al Bayoumi. They met at a restaurant outside of Los Angeles. The CIA utilized the Saudis, in the form of Omar al-Bayoumi, to spy for them and to gather intelligence.
Before 9/11, the CIA was forbidden from engaging in domestic spying. They used Saudi intelligence as a workaround. They relied upon the Saudi GID, their version of the CIA, via Prince Bandar, via their man Omar al-Bayoumi, to keep us informed of the activity of these terrorists.
Bayoumi's notebook, which was uncovered when British law enforcement raided his home in the UK, contained a drawing of an airplane and mathematical calculations related to flying it. The 9/11 Commission investigators never saw this.
At the time, al-Bayoumi had a no-show job at a Saudi aviation contractor called Avco. The company's employees say he was one of roughly 50 ghost employees working there at the time, taking the paycheck but never coming to work.
According to declassified government documents, an investigator from the 9/11 Commission said Al-Bayoumi was receiving substantial sums of money from the Saudi Embassy in Washington prior to the 9/11 attacks. That the money was being funneled from accounts at Riggs Bank in Georgetown belonging to Haifa Bin Faisal, the wife of the Saudi Ambassador to the United States.
By using the Saudis as a proxy to recruit the 9/11 hijackers, the CIA gave itself cover. If things went wrong, they could push a narrative that blamed the Saudi government for the attacks, which is what they did.
For all intents and purposes, Omar Al-Bayoumi was an employee of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington D.C. and their consulate in Los Angeles, California. Al-Bayoumi convinced the hijackers to move to San Diego. He helped them find an apartment. He served as a co-signer on the lease to that apartment. He paid their first month's rent and deposit.
He got them bank accounts. He got them driver's licenses. He introduced them to many other radical Muslims in the area, including the cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Eventually, al-Mihdhar went home to Yemen. Khalid Al Mihdhar leaves America for his daughter's birth, and in that time he loses his passport. He claims he went to Afghanistan. He goes back to Jeddah and gets another passport.
By this time, the Saudis had identified the terrorists, the hijackers, as potential threats to the kingdom and had put chips in their passports identifying them as a threat.
Al-Mihdhar comes back to the United States, I believe it was on July 4, 2001. He's allowed back in, not stopped, not questioned. So here's a guy that the CIA knew came to America, had been at a terror summit meeting in Malaysia in January 2000. He's allowed to leave and come back.
Mihdhar was able to exit and enter the country at will because he was issued a multi-visit U.S. visa. According to a summary of an interview with an FBI agent from Alec Station, Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar obtained their visas to enter the United States at the American consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
All told, the vast majority of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers had their visas issued at that consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at the time John Brennan was running the CIA station there.
Just a few days before Al-Mihdhar reentered the country at JFK airport in New York, the FBI and the CIA held a joint meeting in New York City to discuss the bombing of the USS Cole, which Al-Mihdhar was involved in, and which killed 17 soldiers.
At that meeting, an FBI agent was shown a photograph of Al-Mihdhar taken at the summit in Kuala Lumpur. The agent asked the CIA who this man was, but the CIA once again refused to tell them.
It wasn't until August of 2001 that the CIA finally alerted the FBI. And of course by then it was too late.
It's not just Mark Rossini who testifies to this. Another anonymous FBI agent told investigators that, quote, he or she believed the CIA's operation may have spun out of control, and that they, the CIA, came to the FBI with limited information in an attempt to locate the hijackers without revealing the true nature or extent of their operation against Al Qaeda. End quote.
This is the failure of the 9/11 Commission and every other commission that ever existed after that. But if the CIA was grooming the hijackers as sources, the FBI failed too.
ADVERTISEMENTWhen Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar were in California, they lived for a period in the home of an FBI informant called Abdu Sattar. And yet somehow the FBI never learned about this.
Then less than a month before the terror attacks, the FBI began an investigation into a French Moroccan national called Zacarias Moussaoui. He had just moved to Minneapolis from Oklahoma where he resumed aviation training. After raising suspicions during training, he was arrested on August 16 and charged with immigration violations.
But agents were denied permission to search his laptop and the room where he was staying. His exact connection to the hijacking remains unclear even now, but he did receive wire transfers from Ramzi Binalshibh, who was also sending money to the hijackers.
In July 2001, an FBI agent stationed in the Phoenix field office sent a memo to headquarters theorizing that there could be a coordinated effort by Osama Bin Laden to send individuals to the United States to receive aviation training. For some reason this memo was never received by headquarters, not until after 9/11.
Why? Possibly because as late as 2003, the FBI didn't have a functioning internal email system. Most case files were not digitized, they weren't searchable, and employees did not have access to the Internet. That's true.
By September 2001, the Bureau's computers were so out of date it took 12 commands simply to save a document. And in the aftermath of the attack, the FBI distributed photographs of the suspected hijackers via express mail. They didn't have scanners.
The Bush administration worked hard for us not to know any of this. They hid it. Many of these details were discovered during the Congressional joint inquiry into 9/11. But when Congress released its report, the 28 pages dealing with the hijackers' time in Southern California were hidden. They were redacted.
When a man called Philip Zelikow took over as the commission's executive director, he reached a secret agreement with the White House to block his investigators from accessing records related to the hijackers until the White House had already screened them.
Government documents show that the commission investigators assigned to this topic complained that, quote, Zelikow limited the number of witnesses that commission investigators could interview. And just days before the report was released, Dieter Snell, senior counsel to the commission, attempted to remove most of the details of the Saudi collaboration with the hijackers.
Some of the findings were included in the end, but they were buried in the footnotes.
The truth is the official 9/11 Commission report, sold to the American public and the world for decades as the definitive account of what happened that day, is a lie. The 9/11 Commission is a cover up.
But how did the Bush administration manage to hijack what was sold as an independent commission? And what exactly were they trying to hide?
We'll reveal what we found in the next episode.
Thank you for watching the 9/11 files. The next episode drops next week.
And there's no way I could end this article without going here:
Do you still trust the FBI?
I mean, in general, about anything?
Me either.
Sorry, been lied too about far too many things, over and over and over again. But in a strange way, I do believe they are a great barometer of truth! You just take the exact opposite of the narrative they're pushing, and it's usually where the truth lies.
From Maui to 9/11 to the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay shooting to the Cybertruck bombing to the New Orleans terrorist, I don't really buy ANYTHING that the FBI puts out there anymore.
The same FBI that has spent the last 4 years trying everything they can to frame President Trump and Michael Flynn (and failing at it, by the way).
But for right now I want to focus on the official 9/11 story.
Perhaps you haven't ever really heard why the whole thing is complete nonsense, so allow me to fill you in. In less than five minutes!
Because the best way for me to explain it to you is to just show you this video.
This video is truly only 5 minutes but it moves so fast you might need to watch it 3 or 4 times to let everything sink in.
It's one of my favorite videos.
The video doesn't tell you what to think or what conclusions to draw, it just lists the "official story" that the media has pushed and pulls it all together so you can listen to exactly what they want you to believe.
And as you listen, if you're like me eventually you reach a point where you have to say, "how stupid do they think we are?"
And that's the point when you realize you've likely been fed a huge pile of horse shit with the "official FBI story."
But that's just my conclusion, you can judge for yourself.
Please enjoy:
And thanks to a reader suggestion, I am now putting the Rumble video first (above) and the YouScared video second as a "backup" source.
I will probably start dropping the YouTube source altogether soon.
But for now I'd rather give you two versions to make sure you see it.
So here is YT:
One more backup here from X if needed:
9/11 explained in under 5 minutes! pic.twitter.com/T9kES4wDQy
— Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) January 3, 2025
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