In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, many Americans have wondered if the Saudi government was somehow involved in helping the hijackers get their financial support from the United States. Did you know that 15 of the 19 9-11 hijackers were Saudi?
00:01:17.000Well, they've been behaving badly in our country.
00:01:19.000Think of them as junior embassies, operation centers.
00:01:23.000Foreign nations maintain these consulates throughout America in population centers like New York, Miami, Chicago, L.A.
00:01:31.000And the people who work at foreign consulates, they're not independent actors.
00:01:36.000They're not out doing their own thing.
00:01:38.000They are paid, tasked, and directed by a foreign power.
00:01:43.000They do their bidding, often receiving orders from secure cables.
00:01:48.000Now, we're told they do ministerial, helpful things, resolve visa issues, assist expatriates, facilitate commerce, and surely that stuff does happen.
00:01:58.000But harmless paperwork pushing is not the only thing going on at foreign consulates in America.
00:02:04.000There is a darker side, espionage, subversion, theft, recruitment, information warfare, and catastrophic terrorism.
00:02:14.000National Interest published a piece recently entitled How China Is Using Espionage to Dethrone the U.S.
00:02:21.000They Shed Light on What Is Really Happening at Consulates.
00:02:25.000Official cover is when an intelligence officer is assigned to an embassy or consulate under a diplomatic role, in addition to their diplomatic duties.
00:02:34.000These officers perform their intelligence duties during the day or at night, and they do enjoy diplomatic immunity if they are caught.
00:02:43.000Trump had to close a Chinese consulate in Houston. It was a hub of intellectual property theft.
00:02:49.000And where did one of the CCP spies run when busted, stealing from our universities?
00:02:58.000Russia's consulate in Seattle was crawling with so many spies, President Trump had to shut it down and actually had to expel the personnel from America.
00:03:08.000Foreign consulates have a sinister side.
00:03:12.000The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia deserves intense focus on this exact front.
00:03:19.000President Joe Biden recently ordered the declassification of documents evidencing Saudi Arabia's 9-11 connections.
00:03:28.000Though Biden did this under political pressure from 9-11 families who were going to exclude him from 9-11 ceremonies,
00:03:35.000we enthusiastically endorse this declassification.
00:03:42.000Saudi Arabia's Los Angeles consulate was directly involved in assisting two 9-11 hijackers.
00:03:50.000Housing, bank accounts, logistics, their American experience, coordinated and curated by Saudi government officials.
00:04:00.000Did I mention 15 of the 19 9-11 hijackers were Saudi?
00:04:04.000As you can see on this chart, Omar al-Bayomi and Fahad al-Tumari are top dogs in this uncovered Saudi Arabia-supported Los Angeles-based terror network.
00:04:23.000Al-Bayomi was the advance team for two of the 9-11 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mindhar.
00:04:30.000They had nowhere to live, fresh from the desert, probably still had sand in between the pages of their Quran, and al-Bayomi secured their housing.
00:04:41.000After meeting both of the terrorists at the Mediterranean Grill in 2000, al-Bayomi finds them an apartment in San Diego.
00:04:49.000He even signed financial documents to secure that apartment and bank accounts.
00:04:56.000On the record, Bayomi declares this a chance encounter.
00:05:00.000Now, I've had a lot of chance encounters in my life, and some of those I certainly regret.
00:05:05.000But chance encounters typically don't start with kebabs and hummus and end with opening bank accounts together.
00:05:13.000Or signing financial guarantees to lock in rent agreements.
00:05:17.000I wouldn't even co-sign a rent agreement for most of my friends, much less a chance encounter at a terrorist hangout.
00:05:23.000We are supposed to believe that the Saudi government officials who opened bank accounts with two terrorists and secured housing for terrorists were somehow not involved when those very jihadists flew planes into buildings.
00:05:38.000Oh, and speaking of flying planes, a search of al-Bayomi's belongings revealed an aviation diagram that he produced for two of the 9-11 hijackers.
00:05:50.000The diagram models the exact aerial descent that Flight 77 took in pursuit to striking the Pentagon.
00:05:57.000And American Airlines Flight 77 is the exact same plane that al-Bayomi's terrorist contacts hijacked.
00:06:24.000The aforementioned Mediterranean Grill, which hosted this infamous chance encounter, is basically a terrorist four-square check-in, by the way.
00:06:33.000The FBI report mentions that one of the individuals affiliated with the grill worked as a facilitator for the armed Islamic group, the GIA, and is associated with the Salafest group for preaching and combat.
00:06:48.000Now, both of these groups evolved into al-Qaeda and the Islamic Maghreb.
00:06:54.000And, of course, the Mediterranean Grill is linked to the Saudi consulate through Saudi official Fahad al-Tumari.
00:07:01.000Fahad al-Tumari is an accredited diplomat at the L.A. Saudi Arabia consulate, and he led an extremist faction as the imam of the King Fahd Mosque.
00:07:11.000In 1999, a seven-minute phone call occurred between al-Tumari and the Saudi Arabian family home phone of two of the brothers later detained in Guantanamo Bay.
00:07:23.000Together, al-Tumari and al-Bayomi provided English translation, employment, assistance in acquiring driver's licenses, locating flight lessons, and hijacker housing for the 9-11 attackers.
00:07:38.000Certainly, it couldn't have involved the self-proclaimed close and critical ally for the United States in the fight against terrorism, Saudi Arabia.
00:08:11.000He's a mid-level Saudi foreign ministry official and was assigned to the Saudi embassy in Washington D.C. in 1999 and 2000.
00:08:19.000His duties included overseeing the activities of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs,
00:08:24.000and it was those employees that were participating at Saudi-funded mosques and Islamic centers within the United States.
00:08:32.000According to FBI sources who pushed back against the official Saudi-covering narrative,
00:08:39.000Jara participated in numerous calls with al-Tumari and al-Bayomi in assistance to the hijackers Mindahar and Hazmi.
00:08:49.000It was believed that they may have discussed the very assistance that al-Bayomi and al-Tumari were in fact providing to these hijackers.
00:08:57.000And so now, the 9-11 families are suing the kingdom.
00:09:01.000And they'd be a lot further along in that litigation if the U.S. government would stop blocking access to the evidence that further details Saudi's involvement.
00:09:11.000Here's Jim Kreinler, attorney for the 9-11 families, on Tucker Carlson tonight.
00:09:16.000The last administrations and Directors Mueller and Comey and President Obama fought against the families and maintained a cover-up to cover up the FBI's own intelligence failures.
00:09:28.000The FBI had identified the two lead hijackers in January of 2000 in the United States, was monitoring them, and was monitoring the Saudi government officials that were helping them.
00:09:41.000The FBI, the intelligence community, lost them, and 9-11 occurred.
00:09:48.000This was an enormous embarrassment to the intelligence community and the Bureau, and they tried to hide the truth from the families.
00:09:57.000Moreover, President Obama tried to stop the families from even being able to sue Saudi Arabia and show to the world how officials in the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, and we've now identified 11 Saudi government officials, were the accomplices that provided the help al-Qaeda needed to mount the attacks.
00:10:22.000That was done by the last president to try and get Saudi Arabia not to oppose the Iran nuclear deal.
00:10:32.000So for 18 years, until this president, you've had presidents and FBI directors who stood with Saudi Arabia, and the families have had to fight not only Saudi Arabia with its trillions of dollars and enormous power, but our own FBI and the last president.
00:10:55.000The United States of America should not be engaged in a cover-up for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
00:11:02.000The victims of the actions of the kingdom are American, and we should be on their side, exposing the truth and demanding accountability, financial accountability and otherwise.
00:11:13.000In August, a letter sent to the White House and signed by 1,600 family members of the 9-11 victims called for the declassification of all remaining 9-11 documents, which will further link the Saudi Arabian government to the 9-11 attacks.
00:11:28.000This was followed by the introduction of the September 11th Transparency Act of 2021, which I am a proud co-sponsor of and fully support.
00:11:38.000This bill demanded declassification of the investigation documents concerning the foreign support for the terrorist attacks of 9-11.
00:11:47.000Now, this legislation hasn't been called up for a hearing. I wonder why.
00:11:52.000Joe Biden, he did take a very positive step, though. He ordered the declassification of more documents, and that tells us more of the story.
00:12:00.000In the FBI's mandated release of these documents, they are redacting a whole hell of a lot of names in 16 pages that we're now able to see, and those names should be revealed.
00:12:12.000The 9-11 families prosecuting litigation against Saudi Arabia, they deserve the truth. We all do.
00:12:19.000But if we rely on our intelligence agencies, we will never get to the bottom of it.
00:12:24.000Sadly, the United States intelligence agencies are complicit in the cover-up of Saudi Arabia's official assistance of the 9-11 hijackers.
00:12:33.000Special Agent Jackie McGuire was operating under now-disgraced former FBI Director Bob Mueller.
00:12:39.000She had the nerve to tell Congress in 2004 that that terrorist lunch meeting at the Mediterranean Grill was indeed a chance encounter.
00:12:49.000Just to take a step back and start from the beginning, kind of run through a chronology of our interest in Fahad al-Thumari.
00:13:00.000After September 11th, information was developed that the two hijackers had lived in San Diego.
00:13:06.000The name Omar al-Bayoumi came up in your staff statement.
00:13:10.000Our investigation has determined that al-Bayoumi had met the hijackers.
00:13:15.000All indications is that that meeting was a random encounter.
00:13:47.000But as cover-ups go, this one came from the top echelons of the system.
00:13:52.000The hard-working FBI field agents who were investigating the case.
00:13:57.000Well, they were met with constant pushback from FBI headquarters in Washington.
00:14:02.000The most political building in Washington, D.C. is the J. Edgar Hoover building.
00:14:06.000A New York Times Magazine article from January last year describes how one field officer, Daniel Gonzalez, he was in the San Diego office and was blocked in his investigation at every turn.
00:14:20.000During the last 15 years of his FBI career, Gonzalez was a central figure in the Bureau's effort to understand the Saudi connections to 9-11.
00:14:29.000But even on the inside, Gonzalez often felt as if our own government wanted no part of what he was finding.
00:14:37.000From the day of the attacks, the trail seemed to point to Saudi Arabia.
00:14:42.000But as the details of the 9-11 plot came into focus, the FBI line on possible Saudi involvement begins to shift.
00:14:51.000Low-level Saudi government officials with no ties to anyone important.
00:14:55.000Well, they may have helped some hijackers in California, but there's no indication that they knew that these men were terrorists, much less planning on murdering thousands of Americans.
00:15:05.000But according to current and former officials, requests for assistance that might have rattled the Saudi security agencies were frequently balanced against the FBI and the CIA's need for Saudi help abroad.
00:15:18.000So think about that. The desire for expeditionism abroad was so strong that it overwhelmed the pursuit of the truth at home.
00:15:29.000In reality, our relationship with Saudi Arabia goes much deeper than national security.
00:15:35.000Here's what I said about it on Tucker Carlson.
00:15:37.000The U.S. government. What's baffling to me is how there is resilient, bipartisan support for maintaining this relationship with one of the creepiest, most repressive nations on Earth when we're energy independent.
00:15:51.000Well, because they trade in the U.S., they trade oil in the U.S. dollar.
00:15:54.000I mean, if you really want to have a little truth talk about Saudi Arabia, it's that we need them selling oil in the U.S. dollar in order to maintain the dominance of the dollar to be able to make our sanctions effective elsewhere in the world, especially among oil producing nations.
00:16:07.000The petrodollar, Saudi Arabia's oil production, is exchanged in dollars, and that's been underlying the world's economy for decades.
00:16:17.000The bottom line here is that with evidence that Saudi Arabia's government might have aided in the planning and execution of the 9-11 atrocities,
00:16:25.000the Saudis could probably rest assured that the interest of the petrodollar system coupled with the ever-growing grift of the American military-industrial complex,
00:16:35.000well, that would overwhelm any damning evidence that might negatively impact this long-standing and highly lucrative relationship between the American elite and their Saudi counterparts, all government-connected.
00:16:50.000The only thing standing between plausible and convincing questions and irrevocable conclusion on Saudi Arabia's involvement in 9-11 rests with the FBI deciding to release the complete truth, all the names.
00:17:09.160Meanwhile, as information involving Saudi Arabian government officials has been slowly trickling out into the public, we remain the country's best friend.
00:17:19.160Now, I've called on the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, to close the Los Angeles-Saudi Arabian consulate.
00:17:29.220When countries like Russia and China subvert our country, when they direct actions against our interests, we closed their Seattle and their Houston consulates.
00:17:40.560There should be no special exemption for Saudi Arabia, especially not just based on the petrodollar.
00:17:45.940It's now clear that Saudi Arabia harbored and protected some of the most radical clerics who preached the same interpretations of the Quran as the leaders of Al-Qaeda.
00:17:55.680The Taliban, the Taliban, and ISIS, Saudi funding expanded the religious schools around Pakistan, where young men were indoctrinated in these fundamental violent incarnations of Islam.
00:18:08.240And in the kingdom, not exactly a human rights Mecca.
00:18:12.340Spousal rape isn't a crime, and they throw gay people off of buildings.
00:18:15.900So I don't think that closing their consulate in San Diego, in Los Angeles, in any of these places would be the worst thing.
00:18:23.360Now, the king of Saudi Arabia's official's title is the custodian of the two holy mosques.
00:18:30.440And it seems to me that as custodian, he has a lot of unfinished business to clean up.
00:18:36.600And the dirtiest place of all may be the Saudi consulate system operating right here in the United States of America.
00:18:46.600There is another consulate operating in the United States raising disturbing questions, and it relates directly to debunked allegations about me, rooted in an extortion scheme.
00:18:59.000The DOJ indicted this man, Stephen Alford, under fraud statutes because he worked with others to falsify accusations against me while demanding $25 million to make all my problems go away.
00:19:15.180The fraud feasors called this scheme Project Homecoming.
00:19:19.000Project Homecoming calls on my dad to pay $25 million to a former DOJ official, ostensibly to rescue a Jewish-American spy held in Iran named Bob Levinson.
00:19:32.180Project Homecoming is a criminal fraud scheme.
00:19:35.700This, according to the DOJ's indictment of Alford.
00:19:39.420This man, Jake Novak, is the broadcast media director at the Israeli consulate in New York City.
00:19:47.260Everybody has a day job at the consulate, remember?
00:19:51.840Jake Novak, Israel's main media man in D.C., directly implicates himself in Project Homecoming in texts with political commentator Scott Adams.
00:20:02.940Philip Nieto wrote a great piece about these exchanges in Spectator World, and we'll post that again on social media.