The Darkened Hour

During the Ottoman and British reign in mandated Saudi lands and Israel, it was the United States government with direct sponsorship from European Jewry and the prospect of billions in oil dollars waiting in the Southern Arabian land is where poignant decisions were made. Back the influence of Theodore Hertzl and King Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman Al Saud. Both of these men were to formally lead their countries with the sole backing of not Britain but of the United States. Within a short amount of time, turmoil and sectarian violence led the way to the future destabilization of the Middle East, and ramifications "unforeseen" that would terrorize the world over, most specifically the United States with the 9/11 attacks. This episode will detail the brief history of how that happened.

Robbyn Swan has co-authored three bestselling books. The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 & Osama bin Laden, was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History and won the prestigious Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. Swan contributes to Vanity Fair and has written for The Daily Telegraph, Salon, The Observer, The Daily Beast, MSNBC, The Irish Times, The Sunday Independent [Ireland], the London Independent, Defense News, and The National Journal. She and her husband, Anthony Summers have both contributed a large number of articles for Florida Bulldog and Dan Christensen regarding the 9/11 attacks and the CIA-Saudi roles that played in the attacks themselves. Today we will talk about how she and Summers began their careers, the motivation on writing the book, her articles on Florida Bulldog and more. Florida Bulldog Website: https://www.floridabulldog.org/ The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden: https://www.amazon.com/Eleventh-Day-Full-Story-11/dp/0812978099

Thomas Drake is a former senior executive with the National Security Agency, a United States Air Force and Navy veteran, computer software expert, and whistleblower. During his career at the Air Force, Drake was an Airborne Voice Processing Specialist, with fluency in German, and went on ELINT (electronic intelligence) missions. While at NSA he became a senior-executive holding top security clearance and later he blew the whistle on multi-billion fraud, loss of intelligence, wrongdoing and a secret dragnet electronic surveillance and data mining program conducted on a vast scale by the NSA after 9/11. The name of the program was called Trailblazer. This program violated and subverted the Constitution as well as individual sovereignty and privacy, while weakening national security and fundamentally eroding civil liberties. In April 2010 he was charged by the US Department of Justice with a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment facing 35 years in prison, until the government's case against him collapsed in June 2011. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth". He eventually pleaded to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth Telling while also awarded the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award and the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award.

In this episode i speak on the current US foreign policy framework and how the terrorist networks such as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Taliban in Afghanistan, are working with other Arab fundamentalist organizations to coordinate a response to the tragedies in Gaza, Yemen and North Africa to which the United States government plays a part. The reports from the United Nations Security Counsel as well as terrorism experts have all reported that the current threat matrix coming out of Afghanistan and the Arabian Peninsula is now far ahead and plans for a international terrorist operation is heading underway. The question is, how can we prepare accordingly.

Robert Wright Jr. was a former FBI counter-terrorism agent out of the Chicago Field Office who once spearheaded an intricate investigation into suspected money laundering of terrorist groups by Islamic relief charities, code named "Vulgar Betrayal". By the time the investigation started, Wright noted how top brass at the Chicago and FBI headquarters in Washington DC looked to upend Wright's investigative team, by not providing him with the necessary financing or manpower to further their operation. Wright would later complain that "FBI management intentionally and repeatedly thwarted and obstructed my attempts to launch a more comprehensive investigation to identify and neutralize terrorists." Information about the Holy Land Foundation, BMI Inc, and their ties to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and Hamas were intentionally thwarted or mismanaged which led to the abrupt end of the "Vulgar Betrayal" investigation. Afterwards, Wright would author a detailed book, to which, the FBI prevented him from publishing with threats of criminal prosecution. By 2006 a court ruling would approve of the book's release. The FBI's PRE-9/11 VULGAR BETRAYAL Volume 1: The TRUE STORY of the FBI's Negligent Closing of the FBI Terrorism Investigation That Could Have Prevented 9/11: https://www.amazon.com/FBIs-PRE-9-VULGAR-BETRAYAL-Investigation/dp/B0F844KD1Q

In this episode i talk about the raw intelligence and data that the US intelligence services had which could had prevented the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, from being an operational success. But because of internal grievances, malfeasance and nefarious agendas, the intelligence was not shared with each other. Even when the attacks were taking place, the national defense failed us. I read from numerous media sources, and play congressional inquiry audio, to give you a brief look into the malfeasance, conspiracy and coverups involving various facets of the intelligence agencies, media and department of defense.

Mark Rossini, served as an FBI representative to the CIA’s Counter-terrorist Center (CTC) at CIA Headquarters and he was one of the founding executives of the National Counter-terrorism Center (NCTC). He was then situated in the 1997 NYC joint terrorism task force where he served under the I-48 counter terrorism unit which investigated Hezbollah, which was the unit next to the legendary I-49 unit which was the team investigating Al Qaeda. In todays episode, Mark returns to discuss the FBI's investigation of the 1998 East Africa Bombings of two US embassy's, the lack of any congressional inquiry in the aftermath, how Bin Laden and Al Qaeda judged the Clinton White House afterwards, and the Office of Military Commissions latest findings in the Canestraro document. Mark Rossini Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JzbBB8bH4747gQ808BPTG3yj5RhdWsy3/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

In this episode i cover the initial entry of a known radical cleric from the Egyptian fundamentalist group, Gamma Islamiyyah, Omar Abdel Rahman, into the United States. Also known as the "Blind Sheikh" due to the effects of blindness from an early age, Rahman had been linked to the assassination of Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, but later released under house arrest. However he escaped, and would later be given residency into the United States, while on a terrorist watchlist approved by the CIA. This discussion involves the years of Rahman's initial entry into the country, the CIA's close relationship with Rahman and other radical Islamists including Ali Mohamed (a triple agent for CIA, FBI and Al Qaeda). By 1990 the collapse of the Soviet Union with the assistance of the agency and Pakistan ISI thru the program, "Operation Cyclone", The hatred for the West would come in the form of guerilla terrorism warfare which was seemingly born out of either malfeasance or a more nefarious conspiracy to later engage in an endless war on terrorism abroad.

In this episode, i read from the various files from the FBI's Newark office and their 9/11 investigation code named "PENTTBOM", which involved an investigation of the Israeli nationals who were operating out of moving companies such as Urban Moving Systems in the United States. The FBI reports detail an intricate intelligence operation that concentrated out of Weehawken, New Jersey and Hollywood, Florida. Incidentally, these areas are also where some of the members of the Hamburg Cell (the 9/11 pilot hijackers) were living as well. In a previous episode, we spoke on the infamous East Ruthersford police report and the FBI's own report on the Israeli operators. These reports however concentrate on the FBI agents interviews of the employees and eyewitnesses who saw the Israeli nationals in the days prior and post 9/11 attacks. However, lacking specific details we cannot say for certain on what the Israeli intelligence operators knew. But, we can surmise that they knew an Al Qaeda attack was imminent. In the weeks after the attacks, all of the Israeli nationals were deported. Taking with them whatever intelligence they had collected between the years 2000-2001. FBI PENTTBOM File: file:///D:/September%2011th%202001%20Files%20&%20Documents/911%20&%20Israel%20Connection/911%20Dancing%20Israeli's%20PENTTBOM%20Investigation.pdf

In the aftermath of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), along with the Department of Defense (DoD), began the process of perusing the terrorists and their associates involved. In the timeframe between 2002-2006, the CIA's "rendition program" was given a green light while Pentagon and State Department officials hired CIA psychologists who implemented the "enhanced interrogation program" called SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) on those captured. Reports were leaked about secret CIA prisons in the Middle East and Europe that used barbarous torture methods to extract information on subjects they believed were behind the 9/11 attacks. In 2006 a Senate Committee was formed headed by Senator Dianne Feinstein (United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence), and released it's findings in a 6,700 page report entitled "The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program". In the many pages of the report, the Committee investigated the CIA and its torture of many inmates which showed the results of their brutal practices. In this episode i speak about the Committee's final conclusions of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques, the FBI's report on what they saw in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the laws that were changed in the days after September 11th 2001, that led to the creation of the agency's program that was universally condemned while the CIA tried to coverup their involvement.

With us today is "Guido" and Sarah Adams. Guido, of course is a cover name, for he is an undercover operative. After 9/11 he found himself in a Mossad safehouse, where he uncovered a critical internal leak within the Dutch intelligence agency, AIVD, and spearheaded their first cyber operations. His expertise quickly drew the attention of the CIA, who approached him with a highly unconventional mission: to go undercover in Pakistan as a convert. Over the course of more than 20 years, he has developed an unparalleled understanding of Al-Qaeda’s inner workings. His ability to digitally infiltrate the organization not only helped thwart a major attack on U.S. soil, but also granted him a vast network of sources deep within the group. His covert operations and intelligence-gathering efforts within Al-Qaeda, which continue to this day, have positioned him as one of the Netherlands' foremost experts on the terrorist organization. Sarah Adams is an award-winning targeting officer and global threat advisor with extensive domestic and international experience. With a career spanning the government, private, and non-profit sectors, she has worked overseas on behalf of the U.S. Government's intelligence mission in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Presently, she oversees Department of Defense's (DoD) research and development projects, aiming to discover, develop, and deploy innovative solutions to address complex national security challenges. Previously, she served as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives after being recruited as an executive appointment from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). She is also the co-author of Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy, a cold case, open-source investigation into the al-Qa'ida terrorists who attacked the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi in 2012. She holds a Master's Degree in International Relations from the University of San Diego and a Bachelor's of Science in International Business from the University of Central Florida. Today we will talk about their compact laden book, which they contributed much of the information to author William Archer, 'Al Qaeda 2.0 The Upcoming Attack On The United States & Europe Unveiled'. Al Qaeda 2.0 The Upcoming Attack On The United States & Europe Unveiled: https://www.amazon.com/Al-Qaeda-2-0-Upcoming-Unveiled-Understanding/dp/B0DG564RGM

In December 1999, NSA analysts working on a covert signals intelligence operation on an Al Qaeda network hub in Sana'a , Yemen, pick up an important phone call from Malaysia. The caller tells someone by the name of "Khalid", to tell the two others, to come to a meeting in Malaysia. The caller was identified as someone by the name of "Khallad". The CIA, which heads all international operations, had then asked Malaysian authorities to conduct a surveillance team from the Special Branch, and take photographs of anyone at this meeting. Afterwards, two of the meetings occupants, 'Khalid' and 'Nawaf', who possessed US visas, were coming to the United States. NSA and CIA then blocked the FBI from sharing this intelligence from being shared with FBI headquarters. Question is why? In this episode, we will go over the factual information regarding this meeting, where some of the information comes from Chapter 1 of Bob Graham's excellent book, "The CIA, The FBI, Saudi Arabia, And The Failure Of America’s War On Terror" Bob Graham's book: https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Matters-Arabia-Failure-Americas/dp/0700616268

Richard Kammen is a criminal defense lawyer with his office in Indianapolis, Indiana. He concentrates his practice in serious felonies, white-collar defense, complex crimes and death penalty defense. He is of Counsel to the law firm of Kammen and Moudy. He has defended over three hundred homicide cases including approximately forty death penalty cases in both State and Federal courts. No client that Mr. Kammen has represented at trial has been sentenced to death. Until October of 2017, Mr. Kammen served as “Learned Counsel” in United States v. Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri who is charged before a Military Commission at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Al-Nashiri is alleged to have been a central figure in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in 2000 in Aden, Yemen. He is also the recipient of the Pro Bono Award given by the Indiana Bar Association and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indiana Public Defender Council. Richard is also the author of two books, one in which we will speak at some length today, "Tortured Justice: Guantanamo Bay" Tortured Justice: Guantanamo Bay: https://www.amazon.com/Tortured-Justice-Guantanamo-Richard-Kammen/dp/1614938717

Alka Pradhan is an American human rights attorney who has represented Guantanamo Bay detainees, civilian drone strike victims, and other torture victims. She currently works for the U.S. Department of Defense, Military Commissions Defense Organization and represents Ammar al-Baluchi in the case of United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Pradhan also works as a defense attorney at the International Criminal Court. Additionally, she is an active participant in the UN human rights mechanisms, with submissions or presentations on behalf of clients to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the UN Committee Against Torture, the Human Rights Committee, and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. She has co-written or advised on several amicus curiae briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court. In this interview, Ms. Pradhan speaks at length regarding her initial career as a litigator while working alongside the International Criminal Court., Military Commissions Defense Organization and co-counsel for Ammar al-Baluchi (one of the defendants charged for the Sept 11th attacks).

According to breaking reports from 60 Minutes and Florida Bulldog, video footage shot by a Saudi government employee, Omar al-Bayoumi, which was obtained by news outlets shows a group of men driving around a neighborhood and sometimes pointing out landmarks like the White House, the Washington Monument and the Capitol building. Also, a cell phone linked to a top Saudi prince was also used to contact two future 9/11 hijackers which was never used again, shows that there very well could be a direct connection between certain individuals within the Saudi Kingdom and the 9/11 hijackers and the attacks. Investigators for 9/11 families examine video taken by man with ties to Saudi intelligence referencing a "plan": https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bayoumi-video-examined-as-september-11-evidence-60-minutes/ Saudi prince’s cell phone linked to 9/11 hijackers: https://www.floridabulldog.org/2024/06/saudi-princes-cell-phone-linked-to-9-11-hijackers/

Seth Hettena is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a freelance journalist. He reports on politics, organized crime, and international affairs. From 1997-2006, Hettena was a reporter and correspondent at The Associated Press in Detroit, Sacramento, Baltimore, and San Diego. Prior to that, he worked at two small newspapers in Iowa. He is the author of two books, Trump/Russia: A Definitive History and Feasting on the Spoils: The Life and Times of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, History's Most Corrupt Congressman. He is also runs a Weekly column at SpyTalk where we will discuss two of his articles at length involving the FBI investigation into Saudi government funding of two future 9/11 hijackers, Operation Encore, and the Canestraro documents revelations, as well as the current pre-hearings of four of the 9/11 defendants, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Exclusive: FBI Agents Accuse CIA of 9/11 Coverup: https://www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-fbi-agents-accuse-cia-of Yet Another Delay in Saudi-Related 9/11 Docs Case: https://www.spytalk.co/p/yet-another-delay-in-saudi-related

In this episode, i talk about the capture and eventual torture of the man alleged to have operated and planned the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Mohammed was captured while hiding in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on March 1st 2003. While in CIA custody, Mohammed underwent various torture methods, also known as, the enhanced interrogation techniques. Mohammed was subjected to punching to the face and stomach, sleep deprivation, rectal rehydration and waterboarding. He was transferred to various countries where secret CIA black sites were held including, Poland, Lithuania, Afghanistan and Romania. As of September 2006, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba where he currently awaits trial for conspiracy and other charges in facilitating the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. However, because Mohammed was tortured, along with the 4 others charged in the conspiracy, his admission's cannot be used as evidence. What does the federal government and CIA have as evidence then? The Rendition Project: https://www.therenditionproject.org.uk/prisoners/khaled-sheikh-mohammed.html Senate Select Committe on Intelligence Regarding CIA's Use of Torture: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf

Cole M. Bunzel is a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian and Arabist, he studies the history and contemporary affairs of the Islamic Middle East, with a particular focus on violent Islamism and the Arabian Peninsula. He is the editor of the blog Jihadica and has written widely on the ideology of Sunni jihadism. His current book project, "Wahhabism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement" which draws on an array of rare manuscripts and other primary sources in Arabic, provides a new account of the history and doctrine of Wahhabism, the puritanical Islamic revivalist movement that arose in central Arabia in the 18th century, will be the main focus of our conversation today. Bunzel received his MA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and his BA and PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He has been a research fellow in Islamic law and civilization at the Yale Law School, and is a nonresident fellow at the George Washington University Program on Extremism. Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement: https://www.amazon.com/Wahh%C4%81bism-History-Militant-Islamic-Movement/dp/0691241597 Jihadica: https://www.jihadica.com/

In this episode, i conduct a detailed report on the two 9/11 congressional investigations, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9/11 Commission and the The Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. I will be speaking in regards to the various failures of the state and federal levels of government and our domestic intelligence services between the Clinton and Bush administration. This will be a comprehensive breakdown of those failures and also i add some additional information in between making it clear that we still have not had an honest and open ended investigation into the 9/11 attacks.

After the terrorist events of September 11th 2001, the Bush White House, led by its legal counsel, drafted memorandums that would not only infringe on the rights of detained foreign prisoners, but also deny them any protections afforded to them by the Geneva Conventions. The State Department also authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to implement a strategy at obtaining information "through any means necessary". So in 2002, the CIA would hire Mitchell, Jessen and Associates, to conduct a method on detainees entitled the SERE program where acts of torture would be implemented by captured prisoners to elicit information. Most of which would turn out to be false data. The manipulation of minds:reckoning with the legacy of the american post 9/11 torture program (Maria Hartwig & Mark Fallon): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36519198/ The Guantánamo Docket: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html

In this special episode of the Darkened Hour, i bring a very laid back attitude and offer some personal and direct thoughts on multiple facets of the 9/11 attacks before and after that i never entertained before! The conversation centers on various areas that include the intelligence services, radical arab fundamentalism, Israel and Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 truth movement. Who, What, When, Where, Why and How, i offer many differing thoughts on these questions while also explaining how i become involved with 9/11 and what we need in the future to open a new criminal investigation.

Ray Holcomb has over 30 years’ experience as a law enforcement and intelligence officer. He served for 23 years as an FBI Special Agent; 8 as a Strategic Planner with the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC); and 4 as a state Homeland Security Advisor. Ray’s FBI career included 15 years investigating foreign espionage, major drug trafficking organizations, organized crime and National Security matters. He also served as a member of the FBI’s New York office SWAT team and was appointed Commander of the team from 1998 to 2001. Under Ray’s leadership, the NY SWAT team assumed an expanded role, being involved in high risk domestic arrests and providing overseas security and enhanced investigative capability for FBI teams deploying internationally in response to terrorism. In 2003 Ray was promoted to Section Chief of the FBI’s Operational Response Section which managed the Fly Away Team, the FBI’s Military Liaison/Detainee Unit and the National Joint Terrorism Task Force, overseeing operations and budget of nearly 60 state-based terrorism task forces. In addition to overseeing Special Agents detailed worldwide to the various Unified Combatant Commands, the Military Liaison/Detainee Unit had oversight of the FBI’s interrogation of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The Operational Response Section comprised a full-time complement of 58 Special Agents and 12 analysts. He is the author of Endless Enemies: Inside FBI Counterterrorism. Endless Enemies: Inside FBI Counterterrorism: https://www.amazon.com/Endless-Enemies-Inside-FBI-Counterterrorism/dp/1597973610

In this episode, i cover the period of Afghanistan between, 1992-1996, and the Taliban's war against the Northern Alliance while giving refuge to Osama Bin Laden, and Al Qaeda which became a brewing cesspool that would later shape the Middle East for decades to come and the rest of the world forever. Were the CIA and Pakistan ISI partly responsible for facilitating the fundamnetlist problem while arming them against the Soviets ten years prior? Or was this a case of willful ignorance and malfeasance which led to the predicament of international terrorism that simply reacted to US foreign policy?

With the eve of the 22nd anniversary of the SEptember 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States coming up Monday, myself and 9/11 researcher and co-host of the "Beyond Ground Zero" podcast, Sean Russell talk about various topics relating to 9/11. They include, US-Israeli Foreign Policy, 1993 WTC Bombing, the aftermath of the Soviet-Afghan war, Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, CIA-NSA surveillance of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the mid 90's, the Al Qaeda communications hub in Yemen, and addressing the false conspiracies pushed by certain mainstream media and the fringe elements of the 9/11 Truth Movement. This episode is dedicated to the families and loved ones of the 2,996 victims. murdered in the September 11th attacks. Sean Russell (Beyond Ground Zero): https://odysee.com/@skrussellak:e/01-BGZ-1993-WTC-Full-Edit:1 The Darkened Hour: https://adamfitzgerald.podbean.com/ The Gerald Shea Memorandum: https://www.scribd.com/document/66321077/Gerald-Shea-Memo-to-the-9-11-Commission The Donald Canestraro Document: https://www.floridabulldog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Canestraro-Declaration-dated-20-July-2021.pdf

Tom Parker is the Project Coordinator for Counterterrorism Programming in Nigeria at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). He is also the author of “Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism.” Parker is an experienced counter-terrorism practitioner, having formerly been Chief of Party of a European Union project providing assistance to the Office of the National Security Adviser in Baghdad, Iraq and also previously serving as an adviser on human rights and counter-terrorism to the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF). Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism (Insurgency and Terrorism): https://www.amazon.com/Avoiding-Terrorist-Trap-Defeating-Insurgency/dp/1783266546

Michael Scheuer is the former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit. He resigned from CIA in November 2004 after nearly two decades of experience in covert action and National Security issues related to Afghanistan, South Asia, and the Middle East. He is the author of the book, Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq. He also wrote Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terrorism, and Through Our Enemies Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America. Scheuer holds a B.A., two M.A.’s, and a Ph. D. Scheuer is an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University, a consultant for CBS’s 60 Minutes, and a Senior Fellow and regular contributor to the Jamestown Foundation’s Terrorism Focus. Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror: https://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Hubris-West-Losing-Terror/dp/1597971596 Osama Bin Laden: https://www.amazon.com/Osama-Bin-Laden-Michael-Scheuer/dp/0199898391

Mansoor Adayfi born in Sanaa'Yemen was held without charge in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba from February 9, 2002, to July 11, 2016. On July 11, 2016, he and a Tajikistani captive were transferred to Serbia. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 441. Al-Dayfi came to prominence in 2022 when he alleged that Florida governor Ron DeSantis oversaw beatings and force-feedings of detainees at Guantanamo He now lives in Belgrade, Serbia where he writes, creates artwork, and advocates for prisoner and detainee rights. His memoir of his time at Guantánamo, "Don’t Forget Us Here", was published in 2021 by Hachette Books. Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Forget-Us-Here-Guantanamo/dp/0306923866 Mansoor Adayfi website: https://www.mansooradayfi.com/

Brett Eagleson is the son of the late John Bruce Eagleson who worked for Westfield Management Corp. on the 17th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center whom perished on September 11th 2001. Brett Eagleson is currently the CEO of 9/11 Justice, a grassroots movement made up of the 9/11 community, which consists of 9/11 survivors, first responders, family members of those lost, and all volunteers and lower Manhattan residents, students and workers who are now suffering fatal illnesses due to their exposure to Ground Zero. Today Brett, and other 9/11 victim family members, have hired law firms Motley Rice and Kreindler & Kreindler to push a civil litigation case against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their alleged role in having Saudi operatives give logistical and financial support to two known Al Qaeda operatives while living inside the United States, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, and later a few others, which has now been acknowledged thru the 2023 Donald Canestraro files and the FBI Operation Encore files which were declassified in 2021. In today's interview we go over the background of both father and son, Brett and his summation of what he was doing before, during and after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, the release of the Operation Encore files by Department of Justice, the release of the Donald Canestraro documents, and the State Department's continued coverup of Saudi intelligence involvement with some of the 9/11 hijackers and involvement with LIV Golf. 9/11 Justice: https://www.911justice.org/

Carol Hellermann is a former American Airlines flight attendant for Flight 1 in which 3 arab men who argued about not having to fly on September 11th 2001 when the flight could not take off due to a ground stop. Meanwhile 4 days after 9/11, Hellermann found out that those men were planning to crash into the Sears Tower in Chicago.. Hellermann is speaking out about how there were likely a dozen more planes and targets than the FBI or anyone has ever admitted. Because of employment contract restrictions Hellermann could not speak out about what took place, and since retiring from her 21 years of service she is now speaking out about her experience that day. She also states that the FBI never interviewed her about her ordeal regarding those three arab men who argued about not having to fly on Flight 1 and that the FAA didn't disclose the additional attempted hijackings due to fear of losing clientele which would cause a nationwide economic crash and cause financial loss to the airline industry as a whole.

In this episode, i talk about the motivations behind the US embassy attacks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, which were authorized by two islandic fundamentalist groups, Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri. The bombings are widely believed to have been revenge for U.S. involvement in the extradition, and alleged torture, of four members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad who had been arrested in Albania. According to Bin Laden, it was in response to the US military invasion of Iraq in 1990 and Somalia in 1994. The discussion involves the motivations and political aspirations of Al Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and the aftermath attributed to the attacks.

Anthony Shaffer is the President of the London Center for Policy Research, a New York Times bestselling author and CIA trained intelligence operations officer with 35 years of experience in global and national security. In his think-tank work he is an advisor to senior members of the White House, the Intelligence Community, Pentagon and key members of Congress. He also works with National Geographic as an Advising Producer and Co-Producer of the series “Chain of Command”. In 2017 he became the Homeland Security Advisor to the Stafford County Sheriff’s Department in Virginia and works as its member of the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau’s expanded task force. His New York Times (NYT) and International bestselling memoir, Operation DARK HEART: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan – and the Path to Victory, provides an unprecedented look at intelligence operations during a period in the Afghanistan war, in 2003, where a small number of operators were able to effectively control this large country. In recognition of successful high risk/high gain operations. In our talk we discuss the 2021 declassification of the FBI's Operation Encore" files, and the latest release from Donald Canestraro from the Office of Military Commissions. London Center For Policy Research Center: https://londoncenter.org/ Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan -- and The Path to Victory: https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Dark-Heart-Frontlines-Afghanistan/dp/031260369X Donald Canestraro Document: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23787466/att-b-2021-07-20-donald-canestraro-declaration-dated-20-july-2021.pdf Operation Encore files: https://vault.fbi.gov/9-11-attacks-investigation-and-related-materials/9-11-material-released-in-response-to-executive-order-14040

Elizabeth L. Miller is the Project Director for September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a nonprofit 9/11 family member organization that promotes peace. Miller earned an MA in Middle Eastern Studies (2020) at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Her research has focused on the complexities of women’s involvement in terrorism, and examination of human rights abuses in a post-9/11 world. Elizabeth lost her father, firefighter Douglas Miller on September 11th 2001. She appeared in dozens of broadcast interviews and panels, in the U.S. and abroad, around the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Elected in 2021, she currently serves on the city council of Port Jervis, NY. In our discussion, Miller talks about her father, how she became emotionally driven to understand what Al Qaeda is, and how she ultimately became the Project Director for the September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: https://peacefultomorrows.org/

We continue off of Part 1 of the episode, as NYPD and the NY-JTTF investigate the assassination of Jewish radical firebrand, Rabbi Meri Kahane at a downtown Manhattan hotel. His killer? El Sayyid Nosair, who also has ties to a radical cleric from Egypt from the fundamnetlist sect, Gamma Islamiyyah, known as the "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman. Investigators find incriminating items at Nosair's home which went ignored, which would have showed a brewing arab fundamentalist problem. Meanwhile the FBI begins a sting operation at Rahman's inner cell in two mosques located in Brooklyn and Jersey City, where they employ a former Egyptian military officer to act as informant, Emad Salem, Who uncovers a massive terrorist conspiracy involving bombing of NYC landmarks. operated by Nosair and Rahman. The FBI suddenly removes Salem as its highly valued "confidential source "with a dire warming from Salem. Ramzi Yousef, a Baluchi citizen, with ties to an Israeli Mossad asset, Ahmed Ajaj. Replaces Salem, and begins assembling a bomb which would be used in the World Trade Center.

In this episode, i will be giving a very lengthy and quite descriptive talk about what led up to, and what took place, on February 26th 1993, which was the bombing of the World Trade Center. Speaking from various sources, all of which i will give dates for, as well as from books and the historical record, it will give a clear and broad picture of US Foreign Policy, The essence of the Abu Nidal Organization, the issue of Israeli-Palestine in the 1980's, the meaning of Jihad and Takfir, the CIA's history involving arab mujahid in it's "Operation Cyclone" program and the individuals involved in the genesis of arab fundamentalism and it's organs. This will be the first of a two part program where i will concentrate on the multi-faceted stages and historical events leading up to the formation of the radical cells operating in Pakistan and over inside the United States with help from the intelligence services.

President and CEO Richard (Richie) Rotanz has over 45 years of experience and expertise in the fire service, emergency management, operations, research, training and academia. His eclectic career has had him functioned as program manager in New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; co-developed and performed as the Executive Director of the Applied Science Foundation for Homeland Security; co-developed Adelphi University’s graduate degree in Emergency Management; and performed as the first Commissioner for the Office of Emergency Management of Nassau County, New York. Prior to his tenure in Nassau County, he served in the New York City Fire Department, working through the ranks and special divisions such as the Safety Command and with Special Operations Command. After such an assignment, he was detailed by the Mayor’s office as Deputy Commissioner of New York City's Office of Emergency Management, located in World Trade Center 7. In this detail, he was responsible for research & planning, and to organize and manage the emergency operations center during major events. During the September 11th attacks upon New York City, and after digging his way out of World Trade Center 1 with his staff, he re-instituted and relocated the destroyed emergency operation center to Pier 92, and managed the multi-organization response of over 120 agencies, organizations, and businesses, to the 9-11 tragedy.

Ray Nowosielski is an Emmy-nominated non-fiction filmmaker, producer, and writer. Nowosielski worked on many successful projects, one in which he personally directed, 9/11 Press For Truth" where the film surrounds the lives and activism of widows of husbands who were killed in the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001.John Duffy is a writer and activist. He wrote and produced the critically-acclaimed documentary Press for Truth, His 2011 Who Is Rich Blee? was among the first podcasts to explore the true crime investigative genre, three years before Serial, exposing an alleged human rights abuser inside the CIA and resulting in a well-publicized threat of prosecution from that agency. collaborated with Barbara Kopple on 8 films. With John Duffy he created the iHeart BLM true crime podcast After the Uprising, nominated for a 2022 NAACP Image Award. The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald later dubbed that work “fantastic” and “brave.” Both Nowosielski and Duffy would co-author an Amazon best selling book, The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror" which covers the US intelligence failures and publicly names certain CIA officers who embarked on a secret operation of hiding information from the FBI regarding two Al Qaeda operatives who would later hijack American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon on September 11th 2001. The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror: https://www.amazon.com/Watchdogs-Didnt-Bark-Crimes-Terror-ebook/dp/B06XSXQ3PD Ray Nowosielski website: https://www.raysfilmfest.com/ John F. Duffy website: https://www.johnfduffy.com/ Ray Nowosielski & John Duffy Website: https://www.doubleasteriskmedia.com/

In todays episode i invite Sean Russell and Darin Harvey, two geopolitical 9/11 researchers, writers and online activists who have created a newly formed podcast which delves into the various histories involved with the September 11th 2001 terrorists attacks. The podcast, "Beyond Ground Zero", is currently hosted at Odysee. Both Russell and Harvey have taken a passionate interest in studying the intelligence services along with domestic and foreign politics that are entwined with this event .Both Sean and Darin have come a long way, and i couldn't be more proud to watch them grow as responsible and historically accurate independent investigators over the last 4 years. During our conversation we went over Sean and Darin's initial beginnings into this subject and covered various areas, including, the Bojinka transatlantic airline bombing plot, the 1993 WTC Bombing and the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. Beyond Ground Zero - 1993 World Trade Center Bombing: https://odysee.com/@skrussellak:e/01-BGZ-1993-WTC-Full-Edit:1 The Lost Brooklyn Subway Bombing Plot of 1997, article published by Darin Harvey: https://911skepticsvstruth.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/1997-brooklyn-subway-bombing-plot/ Sean Russell YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@skrussellak/videos Darin Harvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@darinharvey9186/videos

Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini was born in Rosso, Mauritania, the ninth of twelve children of a camel herder. His family moved to the capital of Nouakchott when he was a child, where he excelled in school and earned a scholarship to study electrical engineering at Gerhard-Mercator University in Duisburg, Germany. In 2001, he was living and working in his home country of Mauritania when he was detained and renditioned to Jordan, beginning an ordeal that he would chronicle in his internationally bestselling Guantánamo Diary. The manuscript, which he wrote in his isolation cell in the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, remained classified for almost eight years and was finally declassified, with substantial redactions, in 2013. It was first published in the United States and United Kingdom in January 2015 and has since been published in 25 languages. After 15 years of detention, Mohamedou was released on October 17, 2016, to Mauritania. The following year he published a “restored edition” of Guantánamo Diary, filling in the U.S. government’s redactions, and in 2021, his first novel, The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga, is being published by Ohio University Press. In 2021, a theatrical film was released, entitled The Mauritanian, which is of course based on Slahi's detention and torture, in which actor Tahar Rahim, played the part of Slahi in which was nominated for two Golden Globe awards and five nominations at the British Film Academy Awards as well. In todays episode, Mohamedou extensively talks about his upbringing in Mauritania, his life in countries such as Canada, Germany, his experience in Afghanistan and training in an Al Qaeda camp (Al Farouq), his extradition to Jordan and his kidnap and torture by US authorities while to Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. Guantanamo Diary: https://www.amazon.com/Guant%C3%A1namo-Diary-Mohamedou-Ould-Slahi/dp/0316389250 The Mauritanian: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4761112/

In todays episode, i go over the near obscure written memorandum from retired corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea, who also once the District Attorney for San Luis Obispo County, California from 1998 to 2013. Shea had penned an extensive memo for the 9/11 Commission which was drafted on September 15th 2004. It is a 13 point summary regarding Israeli Mossad agents which were hiding under the guise of “art students” thru-ought most of the metropolitan cities of the United States. Selling cheap art to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and even to these employees personal homes. The Israeli DEA Groups were comprised of 125 or more Israelis, and had collected sensitive data about the details of the September 11th attacks before the event happened and did not share this information with any agency inside the United States. It also goes into great length about the daily investigations of the 9/11 operatives in NYC and Florida. Operations of both the Israeli New Jersey Group and the hijackers of the Pentagon Plane which were centered in Hudson and Bergen Counties in New Jersey. The chapter in today's episode will concentrate on chapter 4 from the memo, "The Israeli DEA Groups", where i read directly from and add some additional information in between. The Gerald Shea Memorandum: https://adamfitzgerald911.wordpress.com/2019/09/01/the-shea-memorandum/

The comprehensive report detailing the National Security Agency (NSA) and their signals intelligence operation of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. This operation allegedly began in 1991-1992, that extended up until and even after the terrorist events of September 11th 2001. Over the course of these long years, the NSA had amassed upwards up to a million pages of transcripts which were gleamed from Bin Laden satellite phones from 1991-1998, and from an Al Qaeda communications hub in Yemen, from 1996-2002. What exactly did the NSA hear from Bin Laden and other top Al Qaeda officials? Well, that information is deemed "classified" and the public won't know anything about it, unless they acknowledge the extent of the operation the NSA were conducted and are being afforded protection by the CIA and White House.

Dave DeCamp is the News editor of of Antiwar.com and Host of "Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp". In today's episode, Richard Cox and myself join Dave DeCamp to talk about the current crisis in Yemen. How the war started, the terrorist Al Qaeda affiliates involved, how the United States got involved by aiding weapons to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the future prospects of peace in the region. The conflict has witnessed many horrors, including the approximate deaths of over 400,000 people, and over 1.2 million Yemeni's displaced which has caused a massive overhaul of immigration problems in nearby cities. DeCamp also speaks on the World Health Organization which talks about the violence in the country and the close proximity to the health facilities, impeding their ability to function and restricting the movement of health staff, patients and ambulances and how the military industrial complex continues to benefit to the tomes of billions as the conflict rages on with full support of the Trump and Biden administrations. Dave DeCamp articles at Antiowar.com: https://original.antiwar.com/author/Dave_DeCamp/ Antiwar News With Dave DeCamp: https://www.youtube.com/@antiwarnews/videos

As American Airlines Flight 11 steered directly into the World Trade Center's North Tower, the response by mostly everyone watching or hearing about it was unsurprising, many were in shock and in a state of paralysis. As United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower, however, many people believed the nation was under a terrorist attack. What was the government response? In this episode i specify the actions and inactions made by certain officials and the complete and utter incompetence of specific people who seemed to have either been caught "off guard" or simply just paralyzed to undertake any action that could have prevented attacks on the nations capitol and in Pennsylvania at the very least.

One of the most infamous and maligned conspiracies involving the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks has been the story of the Israeli moving company, Urban Moving Systems, and the three Israeli employees that were found celebrating the attack of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. When the East Rutherford Police Department later detailed these individuals, there seemed to be much more to their backgrounds than what was originally suspected. When the FBI field office in Newark. New Jersey became involved, it was led by Kevin Donovan (Special Agent in Charge) (SAC). Over the following 71 days until they were deported, the FBI and East Rutherford Police uncovered what seemed to be, a large illegal foreign intelligence operation, which are from Israel, which may have obtained specific data regarding the hijackers involved with the terrorist attacks. I read from, the FBI and East Rutherford redacted reports and fill in some of those blanks to the best of my knowledge using articles and archives of documents as well as media reports from the days after the events of September 11th 2001. Dancing Israelis Police and FBI Reports 9/11/01: https://archive.org/stream/DancingIsraelisFBIReport/fbi%20report%20section%202_djvu.txt

When the Soviets invaded the capitol of Afghanistan in 1979, Kabul, the Islamic community declared a fatwa against the secular communists from the North. Inn doing so, hundreds of thousands of Arabs from all over the world heeded the call. Making up less than 10% of the fighting force, they hardly made an impression. All except for two individuals, a Palestinian imam, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and a wealthy Saudi, Osama Bin Laden. Both men served as examples for the Afghan and Arab Mujahedeen fighters who battled long and heavy against the Soviets. By the near end of the conflict, Azzam had fell out of favor with the Arabs who gravitated towards the silent but stout, Bin Laden who by now had the full protection of Egyptian militants from groups like Egyptian Islamic Jihad under Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was let out of prison for his suspected role in the assassination of the Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat. By 1990, Azzam was assassinated, and Bin Laden and the Arab Mujahedeen had returned back to their native countries. Some, went to the United States, and continued the jihad there. Years later, many terrorist attacks in the country and outside of it, were precipitated by their years of training and funding from the intelligence services who gave them money, weapons and logistical support to defeat the Soviets. Now the war was against the very country who assisted them, in the United States. Had the CIA and US State Department not realized that the very monster they unleashed against the Soviets would return to haunt them?

In the immediate aftermath of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, US President George W. Bush, along with members of the White House Legal Counsel, went to work on circumventing domestic laws and the Constitution on two programs. The bypassing of the Geneva Convention for those suspected or labeled "enemy combatants" and the NSA warrantless wiretapping of Americans. On September 14th 2001, the Senate voted unanimously, 420 to 1, to expand on more unlimited War Powers for the President. John Yoo, Deputy Chief of the Justice Department, and Timothy Flanagan, lawyer for the White House Counsel Office, began to draft legislation by passing the Constitution regarding the Presidents checked authority during times of war, while David Addington, Cheney's person lawyer, began drafting memos regarding the Presidents authority to label any suspected of terrorism as an "enemy combatant". Meanwhile, leading Neoconservatives such as Douglas Feith, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz began pressuring Bush to engage Iraq militarily, even if no intelligence was found linking them to the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington DC. The CIA were given full authority from Bush to begin the "rendition and torture" programs which were given no vetting from any independent agency. On November 13th 2001, John Yoo had sanctioned White House plans to give the Defense Department sole authority to decide which terrorists will be tried in Military Commissions. These dangerous memos and pieces of legislation could very well, one day, be met against us,, the American people.

James Corbett is an award-winning investigative journalist, who has lectured on geopolitics at the University of Groningen's Studium Generale, and delivered presentations on open source journalism at The French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation's fOSSa conference, at TedXGroningen and at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. He started The Corbett Report website in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics. Since then he has written, recorded and edited thousands of hours of audio and video media for the website, including a podcast and several regular online video series. His latest series "False Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda" is a three part docu-series which details the initial and past history of the ultra-orthodox sect Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden. False Flags: The Secret History Of Al Qaeda: https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/alqaeda1:b The Corbett Report: https://www.corbettreport.com/

Ben and Erik, created a 9/11 geopolitically themed podcast where the public can learn about the obscure anomalies that are found in the "pre-intelligence" operations of September 11th 2001. Along with discussions surrounding US foreign policy, national security, Israel-Saudi policy issues, and foreign intelligence, Ben and Erik tend to bring a "lighter" attitude in these very tenebrous subjects. Relatively new, the PNAC duo are quite learned in their geopolitical discussions which give their listeners a full education on the many various subjects entwined with the terrorist events of September 11th 2001. In today's episode, we speak about Ben and Erik's journey into this expansive subject of 9/11, what their motivations are for the future, the intelligence history of Al Qaeda, Bojinka Plot, the 1998 East Africa bombings, the Yemen Hub, the history of Alec Station, and the Israeli-Saudi foreign intelligence operations which were involved with monitoring the 9/11 hijackers and Al Qaeda affiliates. The Podcast For The New American Century: https://podnac.libsyn.com/

Immediately after the terrorist incidents of September 11th 2001, the FBI conducted the largest criminal inquiry in it's history. Thousands of leads started to come into the bureau, and the Saudi link was impossible to ignore. The operation's code name, PENTTBOM, it's name stands for "Pentagon/Twin Towers Bombing Investigation". The investigation was launched on September 11, 2001, and involved 4,000 special agents and 3,000 professional employees. On September 27, 2001, the FBI released photos of the 19 hijackers, along with information about the possible nationalities and aliases of many. Among the many affiliates and others who assisted logistical and financial support to the 9/11 operatives, were Saudi officials such as Fahad al-Thumairy, Omar al-Bayoumi, Osama Basnan, Musaed al-Jarrah, Sam Mustafa, Mohdhar Abdullah and Anwar al-Awlaki. Yet, much of the information from the FBI's PENNTBOM report, was classified, and names were redacted in a congressional inquiry headed by the House and Senate Select Committee, known as the "28 pages". Years later the 9/11 victims families asked US President Donald Trump to release documents from the FBI’s investigation into the 9/11 plot, documents that the Justice Department has long fought to keep secret. Later, the families were told that Trump ordered the attorney general, William P. Barr, to release the name of a Saudi diplomat who was linked to the 9/11 plot in an FBI report years earlier. Justice Department lawyers handed over the Saudi official’s name in a protected court filing that could be read only by lawyers for the plaintiffs. But Barr dashed the families’ hopes. The full story of the FBI’s investigation into Saudi links to the 9/11 attacks has remained largely untold. However, in 2020 Propublica in partnership with the New York Times Magazine published an article entitled "Operation Encore and the Saudi Connection: A Secret History of the 9/11 Investigation". Operation Encore, the FBI's "follow up" to PENTTBOM, where a group of FBI agents found evidence of a much larger Saudi operation which supported two known Al Qaeda operatives living inside the United States who were later involved with the 9/11 attacks. The Biden administration has declassified a 16-page FBI report tying 9/11 hijackers to Saudi nationals living in the United States. The document, written in 2016, summarized an FBI investigation into those ties called Operation Encore. In today's episode, i talk about the latest and remarkable findings under Executive Order 14040 released on September 3, 2021, which shows a larger Saudi network who collaborated with some of the 9/11 hijackers and who knew they were coming inside the United States as early as December 2000. Operation Encore and the Saudi Connection: A Secret History of the 9/11 Investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/9-11-investigation-saudi-connections-operation-encore-fbi Executive Order 14040: Operation Encore Documents: https://vault.fbi.gov/9-11-attacks-investigation-and-related-materials/9-11-material-released-in-response-to-executive-order-14040

In this episode, former guest of the show, Ed Brotherton (WeAreChangeLA) joins me in a laid back discussion of revisiting old stories of how we were led down the path of 9/11 and what we once had believed while studying the geopolitical aspects. We also speak on the actual anomalies involving the single most divisive issue that has literally created a "sectarian" divide of sorts on the 91/1 Truth Movement, the incident over what happend at the Pentagon. The signals intelligence operation involving the National Security Agency (NSA) and their foreign and domestic operations of two Al Qaeda terrorists, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation involving certain people at the Bin Laden Issue Station and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that were involved in the "cover-up" afterwards which involved, to this day, the interference of 91/1 victims families in their civil suit case against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We also spoke in depth about the Saudi and Israeli intelligence data collection operations that had seemingly knew about those involved with the 9/11 operators years, that even went back, some years prior to the 9/11 attacks. We often shoot from the hip here and even involves some "loose" language at times. Nevertheless, thank you Ed Brotherton for this very invigorating discussion about the many facts that were often blanketed by fiction from not just the 9/11 Truth Movement, but also, by the legacy national media and our own federal government.

Ben Howard is an independent researcher. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and daughter. You can follow Ben on Twitter: @housetrotter. Howard has been an ardent, often anonymous, 9/11 and geopolitical writer and student. Just last year he would so-author a 3 part series entitled "The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11" along with Aaron Good and Peter Dale Scott. In this episode, Ben and i discuss the NSA monitor of Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, the Yemen Hub, CIA operations involving surveillance of the Yemen Hub, the high level terrorist summit in Malaysia, the intentional withholding of pertinent information from the FBI concerning al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi entry into the United States while possessing US Visas, the CIA "phishing" the FBI in 2001 concerning al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, Richard Blee and Tom Wilshire's roles in the coverup and hoarding of information. This is part 1 of a series concerning the domestic and foreign intelligence involvement with Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, along with the greater geopolitical goals involved. The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/09/11/the-twenty-year-shadow-of-9-11-u-s-complicity-in-the-terror-spectacle-and-the-urgent-need-to-end-it/ American Exception: Empire and the Deep State: https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510769137/american-exception/