In this episode, we cover the conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks and the possible link between the CIA and al-Qaeda. This is part 1 of a multi-part series covering the conspiracy surrounding the attacks.
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00:02:36.820So without further ado, today's episode, guys, we're going to go ahead and get into the conspiracy side of the house when it comes to 9-11.
00:02:42.340As you guys know, this is a multi-part series.
00:02:44.900Part one, we covered the 9-11 attacks and how the FBI investigated the case and was able to identify al-Qaeda.
00:02:49.540Then from there, identifying al-Qaeda, figured out bin Laden was behind it.
00:02:52.900Then we went into episode two, which covered how the CIA tracked and found bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
00:02:57.980Then part three was how the Navy SEALs raided the compound, found bin Laden, killed bin Laden, and what they actually found in his house to include his personal notes was on his hard drive, etc.
00:03:07.520And we were able to kind of get an idea of what bin Laden had planned had he not been killed by the Navy SEALs back then.
00:03:15.960Now we're going to get into part four of this 9-11 multi-part series.
00:03:21.080And we're going to go ahead and cover the conspiracy theories around this.
00:03:23.940So for all you guys out there that have been waiting, I got y'all.
00:03:26.700We're finally getting into the conspiracy part, which we're going to watch a documentary called The New Pearl Harbor.
00:03:30.840It's a five-hour long documentary, guys.
00:03:32.820More than likely, I'm going to have to break this up into either two to three parts.
00:03:36.800There's different segments of the documentary.
00:03:39.260And yeah, man, I mean, they make some valid points here.
00:04:41.880He's the one that put me onto this thing, saying to watch it.
00:04:45.160And the documentary does make some good points.
00:04:47.260So the beginning part here, guys, they're going to pretty much draw parallels between Pearl Harbor, right, from the 40s to 9-11 and some of the similarities.
00:04:56.220Let's go ahead and get right into it, guys.
00:04:57.700On the very day of September 11, several commentators drew a parallel with the historical events of Pearl Harbor.
00:05:07.860And it's a day that will, as was the case with Pearl Harbor, live in infamy in American history.
00:05:14.420The last time there was an attack like this on the United States was Pearl Harbor.
00:05:17.840Reminiscent of another terrible day, the attack on Pearl Harbor.
00:05:21.520But there was also someone on the same day who offered a prediction.
00:05:24.960After the attack on Pearl Harbor, guess what we did?
00:05:28.080We went back and found out that, yes, the evidence was there.
00:05:31.820And again, I think what we're going to see, even in this instance, this Pearl Harbor, the 21st century, is very much the same kind of thing.
00:05:38.120In fact, the more information that has been emerging about September 11, the more we have come to realize that many different aspects of the two events bear a chilling resemblance to each other.
00:06:30.340While both events were needed by the U.S. to go to war, in both cases, the ultimate goal was not the one initially stated.
00:06:42.140Roosevelt knew a surprise Japanese attack would enrage the public and jumpstart the American war machine.
00:06:48.400In this way, FDR would get backdoor entry into what he really wanted, a war with Hitler.
00:06:57.000According to their own documents, before 9-11, the neocons knew that a surprise attack, like a new Pearl Harbor, would enrage the public and jumpstart the war machine against Afghanistan.
00:07:08.220In this way, they would get a backdoor entry into what they really wanted, the war with Saddam Hussein.
00:07:13.960From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go.
00:07:22.960He says that going after Saddam Hussein was topic A 10 days after the inauguration, eight months before September 11th.
00:07:33.840Real quick so that you guys kind of understand.
00:07:35.720Because, again, some of you guys might not be geopolitically inclined.
00:07:39.800Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Takiri, his full name, was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from July 6, 1979 until April 9, 2003.
00:07:50.640And for some of you guys that are old enough to remember, this is right around the time when we invaded Iraq, which was in late March.
00:08:14.060This was public enemy number one back in the day.
00:08:15.760In the early 2000s was Saddam Hussein in Iraq because they had invited, evaded, you know, Saudi Arabia.
00:08:22.580You know, we had the whole desert storm, evading Kuwait, whatever.
00:08:25.860So Saddam Hussein was definitely an enemy of the United States back then.
00:08:29.240Before and during the war, the propaganda machine made a relentless effort to create a direct connection between Hitler and Japan.
00:08:37.960One poll taken immediately after Pearl Harbor showed that more than 60% of Americans believed that Germany was behind the attack.
00:08:46.800The Bush-Cheney propaganda machine made an even harder effort to create a direct association between Iraq and Osama bin Laden.
00:08:53.560By the end of 2003, nearly 70% of Americans believed that Saddam was implicated in the September 11 attacks.
00:09:02.840Top levels of the Roosevelt administration knew in advance that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked.
00:09:08.400General Marshall and Admiral Stark and indeed FDR indeed knew that Pearl Harbor was being painted for a bombing run by the Japanese.
00:09:16.440Secretary of State Cordell Hull even knew the exact day of the attack a week before it took place.
00:09:21.960Cordell Hull was Secretary of State and he called me on Saturday mornings and he started to relate that Pearl Harbor would be attacked on December the 7th.
00:09:38.320Before September 11, many in the intelligence community knew the attacks were on their way.
00:09:43.560There was so much discussion about this attack.
00:09:48.400George Tenet had some meetings, other analysts had meetings at the White House.
00:09:54.200Vital information on the Japanese attack was kept from those who could have used it to defend the Hawaiian port and to minimize the number of American casualties.
00:10:02.460Two men could use that information immediately.
00:10:05.540Admiral Husband Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter Short, the commanders at Pearl Harbor.
00:10:10.460If FDR and his administration deliberately withheld the vital intelligence from Pearl Harbor and all the evidence indicates that they did,
00:10:27.060then it was certainly a deliberate conspiracy to set Pearl Harbor up for a total defeat.
00:10:32.580Before September 11, important information was kept from counterterrorism czar Richard Clark, who could have organized a defense and even have prevented the attacks altogether.
00:12:37.800But yes, this main woman right here was one of the main targeters for Bin Laden.
00:12:41.340She had been warning people about Bin Laden since the early to mid-90s, guys, in the Clinton administration.
00:12:47.580So the CIA definitely had Bin Laden on their radar.
00:12:51.100It's just that no one took it seriously, you know, and it might have been over at the White House, right?
00:12:55.960Because, you know, the conspiracy theory is that they wanted to go to war and they wanted to use this 9-11 attack as a proxy to go ahead and go after Iraq, which, you know, let's be honest here.
00:13:06.040Bin Laden, Bush's main thing is we got to go after weapons of mass destruction.
00:13:09.480That was the main point that he was using to go and attack Iraq, which they had nothing to do with 9-11.
00:13:17.380You know, Bin Laden and his crew, that's a whole other thing.
00:13:19.280Matter of fact, and you guys know this as well, Bin Laden and Hussein did not like each other.
00:13:24.400Bin Laden volunteered to fight the Iraqis when they invaded Kuwait in the 90s.
00:13:31.600The whole reason why Bin Laden hates the United States, guys, right?
00:13:34.660And I explained this, but just to give you guys a quick little thing, what happened was...
00:13:39.480Iraq invaded Kuwait, which obviously is a national security risk for Saudi Arabia.
00:13:44.720So Bin Laden, you know, off of his high of beating the Soviets in the 80s, right, in the late 70s and the 80s, and getting them out of Afghanistan.
00:13:52.460He's like, yo, I got my freedom fighters, a.k.a. what became al-Qaeda later on.
00:13:56.820He's like, yo, I got my freedom fighters.
00:14:34.540So he had to go hide out in Sudan for several years and run al-Qaeda operations there.
00:14:37.840And that's where his resentment towards the United States started to build even more.
00:14:41.080He already had issues with the United States before because of the support for Israel.
00:14:43.940But pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back was the United States protecting Saudi Arabia, his country, right, from potential invasion and or national security risks from Iraq.
00:14:57.160So Osama and Saddam didn't see eye to eye at all.
00:15:02.360So the whole we need to invade Iraq because, you know, of the war against terror, et cetera, Bin Laden and Saddam don't get along at all.
00:15:10.740As a matter of fact, that's the whole reason why Bin Laden didn't like the United States was because he wasn't allowed to fight said I'm off.
00:15:18.420But mainstream media ain't going to cover this.
00:15:20.160And I actually covered this in detail, guys, on this podcast right here, which was episode two of the of, you know, Osama Bin Laden and how the CIA found him.
00:16:12.800But basically, you know, they were spending quite a bit of time on Bin Laden and identifying his network and all the criminal activity he was involved in and his plots, etc.
00:16:43.060But, you know, it's documented that the CIA, and you guys are going to see here as well, other government agencies also notified the United States about the impending attacks on 9-11.
00:16:52.740Out of Pearl Harbor conspiracy, he said that three days before Pearl Harbor, the Australian government had warned Washington that a Japanese aircraft carrier was headed towards Hawaii.
00:17:05.740But, he said, that information was withheld from Kimmel and Short.
00:17:10.640After September 11, Republican Congressman Kurt Weldon denounced the pre-knowledge of information on the upcoming attacks, which was intentionally withheld from the intelligence community.
00:17:20.040This is an attempt to prevent the American people from knowing the facts about how we could have prevented 9-11, and people are covering it up today.
00:17:29.240When honest officials stumbled on important information on the Japanese attack, they went straight to their superiors, only to see that information ignored, diverted, or suppressed altogether.
00:17:39.540The chief of naval intelligence in Washington, Captain Alan Kirk, recognized the message as plans for a bombing raid, but his persistent attempts to warn Kimmel ended when he was assigned to other duties.
00:17:52.820At Pearl Harbor, the admiral had no way of knowing that Kirk had been repeatedly refused permission to warn him.
00:17:58.960In August 2001, FBI agent Colleen Rowley discovered information that could have led to uncover the September 11 plot, but her memos never got past her superiors, while she was prevented from pursuing the investigation any further.
00:18:13.840Finally, it turns out they were not read by the lawyer and the FBI who had the duty to send those over to the Department of Justice.
00:18:20.940Hours before the Japanese strike, Roosevelt's chief of staff, George Marshall, became...
00:18:25.640All right, so this woman, Colleen Rowley, real quick, I'll show y'all who this is.
00:18:38.380Colleen Rowley, born December 20, 1954, is an American former FBI special agent and whistleblower, and was a Democratic Farmer Labor Party, DFL candidate for Congress in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District.
00:18:48.120Okay, Rowley is well known for testifying as to concerns regarding the FBI ignoring information of a suspected terrorist during 9-11, which led to a two-year investigation by the Department of Justice.
00:19:04.320In 1984, she spent six years in New York field office doing Italian organized crime, right?
00:19:10.120Because as you guys know, back in the 80s, that's what they were trying to do in the 70s.
00:19:13.880Then, interestingly enough, in 1990, she was transferred to the FBI's Minneapolis field office, where she became chief division counsel.
00:19:20.780There, she taught constitutional law to FBI agents and police officers and oversaw the Freedom of Information Asset Forfeiture Program, Victim Witness, and Community Outreach Programs.
00:19:29.360After the 9-11 attacks in 2001, Rowley wrote a paper for the FBI director, Robert Mueller, documenting how FBI HQ personnel in Washington, D.C. had mishandled and failed to take action on information provided by the Minneapolis, Minnesota field office regarding its investigation of suspected terrorist, Zacharias Massawi.
00:19:45.800Now, if you guys watched the other episode I did, again, this is why you guys got to watch the 9-11 episode that I did, and I'll show you out real fast.
00:21:32.920Because this guy, just to sum it up for y'all, right?
00:21:35.380And you guys should definitely watch this episode because I go into detail about, you know, how the FBI did their 9-11 investigation, et cetera.
00:21:40.580They did it from a parking lot, amazingly.
00:21:42.140But long story short, this guy, guys, he basically came on the radar because he was trying to learn how to fly planes but not land.
00:21:53.740Which, you know, that should be a clue.
00:21:56.300Like, you know, yeah, I just want to learn how to fly.
00:22:07.000But going back to what I was saying, right, with Colleen Rowley, she criticizes Minneapolis for not getting on him sooner, okay?
00:22:15.160They only identified him after the fact once, you know, the FBI obviously had a kick in their ass that they had to go ahead and make some shit happen.
00:22:24.060Moussaoui had been suspected of being involved in preparations for a suicide hijacking similar to December 1994 Eiffel Tower hijacking of Air France 8969.
00:22:30.960Airs identified by Raleigh may have left the U.S. vulnerable to September 11th attacks.
00:22:36.660Raleigh was one of many agents frustrated by the events that led up to the attacks writing.
00:22:40.700Quote, during the early aftermath of September 11th, when I happened to be recounting the pre-September 11th events concerning the Moussaoui investigation to other FBI personnel in other divisions or in FBI HQ, almost everyone's first question was, why?
00:22:56.200Why wouldn't FBI agents deliberately sabotage a case?
00:23:01.980I know I shouldn't be flipping about this, but jokes were actually made that the key FBI HQ personnel had to be spies or moles like Robert Hansen, which I covered his case as well, by the way, guys.
00:23:11.520Robert Hansen, one of the worst intel leaks of U.S. history, who were actually working for Osama Bin Laden to have so undercut Minneapolis's efforts.
00:23:18.600So, yeah, she's making jokes that they were so – it was so bad.
00:23:22.740Now, here's the thing that I got to tell you, because I've worked with the FBI quite a bit, not a few cases – a bunch of cases with them.
00:23:58.020So I'm not surprised that an office like Minneapolis, which is probably more than likely going to be a slower office, right, in the interior, isn't going to be that busy.
00:24:06.500And guys are going to be doing stupid shit and missing a lead like that, which, you know, obviously is terrible.
00:24:52.280So, suddenly unavailable, delaying the process of communication within the chain of command.
00:24:58.960General George Marshall, the man who should have acted, was nowhere to be found.
00:25:04.940Colonel Rufus Bratton was responsible for keeping Marshall supplied with such vital information.
00:25:10.680For Bratton, Marshall's sudden unavailability at a time when America was on the brink of war could not have been accidental.
00:25:20.500In the crucial hours of September 11, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and other top military became suddenly unavailable, hampering the decisional process within the chain of command.
00:26:58.080And the vice president sort of whipped his head around and said, of course they do.
00:27:03.860It was thanks to the indignation for the 3,000 sailors killed at Pearl Harbor that President Roosevelt could finally enter a war the U.S. had been preparing for months in advance.
00:27:14.320With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph.
00:27:30.460Use it as a, you know, rallying point to go ahead and gather everybody and say, we're going to war, baby.
00:27:39.120Nation for the 3,000 victims of September 11, that President Bush could launch a war that had already been prepared in the smallest detail.
00:27:47.100CNN and Time Magazine have reported that on September 10, 2001, a military plan to attack Afghanistan had been placed on Georgia.
00:27:56.300September 10, the CIA plan to attack Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan with heavy support for the Northern Alliance is put on Bush's desk for when he returns from Florida.
00:28:03.860And for some of you guys that are wondering, on September 11, George Bush was actually, if I'm not mistaken, in Sarasota, Florida at an elementary school, you know, reading a children's book when he got the news.
00:28:15.360George Bush's desk to be signed by the president upon his return from Florida.
00:28:20.460May God grant us wisdom and may he watch over the United States of America.
00:28:26.180Then came the official commissions, which in both cases were tasked to find out whether there had been a conspiracy by the same authorities that were suspected of having participated in the conspiracy.
00:28:41.620Just three months after VJ Day, Senator Alvin Barclay of Kentucky convenes the Joint Congressional Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack.
00:28:52.520The committee lays much of the blame on the commanders at Pearl Harbor and largely exonerates FDR and his top advisors.
00:29:00.520But its conclusions draw charges of cover-up and cronyism.
00:29:05.020Gross negligence becomes high treason when the motive is discovered or understood.
00:29:14.320In July 2004, the commission published its final report.
00:29:18.500Two and a half million pages of documents.
00:29:22.060We've interviewed over 1,200 individuals, including experts and officials past and present.
00:29:29.340However, the commission report failed to meet many of the family's expectations.
00:29:33.200And guys, anytime like a tragedy, like a national tragedy occurs, typically, you know, there's going to be an investigation, you know, done by the government and they're going to go ahead and do some kind of commission report.
00:29:42.500Right. Like, I mean, when JFK was killed, 9-11, Pearl Harbor, anytime a major tragedy like this happens where it affects national security, there's going to be a huge investigation.
00:29:52.900They're going to put people on oath. They're going to be asking all types of questions.
00:29:55.960And a report is going to be done after the fact.
00:29:58.620So this is no different for the 9-11 commission report.
00:30:13.420Published in 2004, the 9-11 commission report has become the central focus of criticism by the 9-11 truth movement, a movement comprised of thousands of individuals and associations from all over the world, all connected through the Internet.
00:30:31.800The commission's report is accused of having simply rubber stamped the government's version of the events by ignoring all the evidence against it while covering up its most conspicuous holes with a long series of omissions, distortions, and even...
00:30:45.600And here it is right here, guys. 9-11 truth movement, right? Quick little thing on this.
00:30:50.960The 9-11 truth movement supports a conspiracy theory that disputes the general consensus in the September 11th attacks that a group of al-Qaeda terrorists would hijack four airliners and crash them into the Pentagon and the original World Trade Center Twin Towers,
00:31:01.040which consequently collapsed. The primary focus is on missed information that adherents allege is not adequately explained in the official NASA Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST.
00:31:11.080Guys, remember, these guys are going to be a big part of this documentary, okay?
00:31:14.920Such as the collapse of World Trade 7, the 7 World Trade Center.
00:31:18.540They suggest a cover-up and at least complicity by insiders.
00:31:22.600They analyze evidence from the attacks, discuss different theories about how the attacks happen, and call for a new investigation into the attacks.
00:31:27.500Some of the organizations assert that there is evidence that individuals within the United States government may have been either responsible for or knowingly complicit in the September 11th attacks.
00:31:36.220Motives suggested by the movement include the use of the attacks as a pretext to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to create opportunities to curtail American civil liberties.
00:31:45.360Support for the movement is negligible from professionals in relevant fields such as civil and aerospace engineering, okay?
00:31:51.240So that kind of gives you guys an idea of where we're going here.
00:31:54.980And you can't even find the website, really, when you Google it.
00:32:09.840Led by researcher David Ray Griffin, an international panel of 20 experts on 9-11 has compiled a list of the strongest evidence against the official version that has emerged to this day.
00:32:20.640This evidence is available to the public on their website in four different languages.
00:32:24.740Despite all the evidence that has emerged in the last decades, there are many who still reject the idea of a conspiracy at Pearl Harbor and prefer to reassert the much more simplistic explanation called the official version.
00:32:38.520There was no conspiracy. FDR did not know. Cornell Hall did not know. The American government did not know that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.
00:32:51.480It was a, what has been called a failure of imagination.
00:32:55.820Despite all the evidence presented in the last 10 years by the 9-11 truth movement, there are many who openly support the official version by the government and dismiss such evidence as irrelevant.
00:33:06.920These people are known as debunkers, as their stated intent is to debunk the evidence presented by the 9-11 truth movement against the official version.
00:33:15.400The most authoritative debunker in Italy is Paolo Attivissimo, a member of an organization called CICAP, which has openly declared war on the so-called conspiracy theorists.
00:33:26.180Attivissimo has held numerous conferences on 9-11 in which he has covered all the most important aspects of the debate.
00:33:32.860The most prominent champion for the official version in France is Jerome Quirant, who also wrote a book called September 11 and the Conspiracy Theories.
00:33:40.760Quirant also participated in numerous conferences and television debates on 9-11 in his own country.
00:33:47.360But the flagship for the debunkers worldwide is certainly the American magazine Popular Mechanics.
00:33:52.960In 2006, they published a book called Debunking 9-11 Myths, in which the authors purport to have refuted all the major claims against the official version by the 9-11 truth movement.
00:34:03.660Jim Miggs is the editor of Popular Mechanics magazine.
00:34:07.520In 2005, he and a staff of reporters decided to take on the factual and scientific claims made by members of the 9-11 conspiracy movement.
00:34:17.900The results were first published in a magazine article, then more fully developed in a...
00:34:22.560So as you guys can see, man, you know, for several, damn near over two decades, they've been going back and forth with this, you know, between conspiracy theorists and debunkers, back and forth with, was it an inside job?
00:34:48.800So I'll pull that one up here to show you guys, but let's keep going.
00:34:53.160Book titled Debunking 9-11 Myths, Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts.
00:34:59.980I think what Popular Mechanics did with the 9-11 conspiracy theory was just about one of the best things ever done in the history of skepticism.
00:35:07.340That is exactly how it should be done.
00:35:31.260A series of films released between 2005 and 2009 that argue in favor of certain conspiracy theories related to the 9th of September 11th attacks.
00:35:37.000The films were written and directed by Dylan Avery and produced by Corey Rowe, Jason Bermas, and Matthew Brown.
00:35:41.540The original 2005 film was edited and re-released as Lose Change 2, second edition, a third time for the second edition, recut 2006, and then subsequently edited for a fourth time for the HD remastered edition 2017.
00:35:52.560Lose Change Final Cut deemed the third and final release of this documentary series was released on DVD and web stream format in November 11th, 2017.
00:36:45.140Okay, so guys, focus on this because this right here is going to outline, okay, the entire documentary, okay?
00:36:52.680And what I'll do is when we break this up into parts, I'll start it at a certain section so that we have one section completely covered, okay?
00:37:00.680But let's go ahead and get into the main things.
00:37:03.500Roughly be divided into these areas of discussion.
00:37:05.920We have the four hijackings as the overarching event of the day, and we have the three different locations that were hit by the four airplanes.
00:37:13.140So, bam, part one, four hijackings, the three locations, which they're going to go into detail on each one.
00:37:21.660Another crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
00:37:23.880The other two hit the Twin Towers in New York.
00:37:27.280The debate on the hijackings is divided in three parts.
00:37:30.340The first one focuses on the air defense and whether the failure to intercept the hijacked airplanes was accidental or intentional.
00:37:37.660The second focuses on the hijackers and whether they were actually aboard the airplanes or just the usual patsies.
00:37:43.540The third part focuses on the aircraft themselves and whether the four airplanes used in the attacks were the same ones that took off from the airports that morning or were something that only resembled them from the outside.
00:37:54.680What initially raised suspicions on the true role of the military on September 11 is the fact that the U.S. air defense, which is arguably the most advanced and sophisticated in the world, was unable to intercept even one of the four hijacked airplanes in the course of over one and a half hours.
00:38:13.080I remember thinking, where on earth are the interceptors?
00:38:20.160And it's absolutely unbelievable that hijacked airliners could fly around for an hour and 40 minutes without being intercepted.
00:38:31.620As a former minister of national defense, why did airplanes fly around for an hour and a half without interceptors being scrambled?
00:38:39.080We'll take them, you know, with a quick reaction alert.
00:38:41.660They should have been in the air in five minutes or 10 minutes.
00:38:44.040If not, as a minister of national defense, which I would want to say, why not?
00:38:49.740This astonishing failure to respond was remarked by Senator Mark Dayton in the post 9-11 congressional hearings.
00:38:55.880But what I find much more shocking and alarming were the repeated and catastrophic failures of the leaders in charge and the other people responsible to do their jobs, to follow established procedures, to follow direct orders from civilian and military commanders.
00:39:11.480The official justification for this failure is a series of...
00:39:15.180And I like how they go back and forth.
00:39:16.760You guys are going to notice this trend in the documentaries.
00:39:21.120What they'll do is they'll talk about what the debunkers explain as to why something may have not occurred.
00:39:26.440If they weren't aware, why it was strange.
00:39:28.200And then they'll go ahead and make an argument against it, which is, you know, it's great content, you know.
00:39:34.940Blunders, miscommunications and mistakes that has come to be known as the incompetence theory.
00:39:39.840On that day, you saw a lot of well-meaning, confused people struggling to make sense of a terrible situation.
00:39:45.160They didn't even know where the planes were.
00:39:46.520One argument for the incompetence theory is that the air defense was conceived to protect the U.S. from external threats, not internal ones.
00:39:54.080The fact is that our air defenses, the whole NORAD system, was not at all geared towards protecting us from domestic aircraft.
00:40:06.120It was all set up to detect aircraft coming in from overseas.
00:40:09.840Predisposta per difendersi da attacchi provenienti dall'esterno.
00:40:13.160L'America era come se fosse un castello con un fossato.
00:40:16.760Questi hanno usato una catapulta per entrare saltando il fossato e si sono provato all'interno, nel ventre e mori all'America, e l'hanno potuta esforzare.
00:40:24.740What the debunkers forget to mention is that the responsibility for tracking internal hijacks has never fallen on the military to begin with.
00:40:32.460This has always been the duty of the civil air traffic controllers, the FAA, as explained by the Secretary of Defense himself.
00:40:39.220So the Department of Defense was oriented externally.
00:40:44.680And the FAA was the one that then had the responsibility to say there's a hijack.
00:40:51.360Only then, explains author and researcher Nafiz Ahmed, is the military requested for assistance in scrambling their jets.
00:40:58.400Standard operating procedures dictate that as soon as a plane flies off course, the FAA will contact the plane and try to ask them what is going on.
00:41:08.040If there is a problem or if they cannot establish radio contact, then immediately the FAA will contact the Pentagon,
00:41:16.320who will, within a matter of minutes, a maximum of 10 minutes normally, will scramble fighter jets to intercept the civilian plane and to analyse the situation and see what is going on.
00:41:27.120The FAA authority over the national airspace is clearly acknowledged in this exchange between the military from September 11th.
00:41:33.820If you can, hand the fighters over directly to FAA so that they're still under FAA control.
00:45:16.6808,200 feet and he's on the same code that he was before.
00:45:20.660Save for some moments of confusion, the four airplanes were being tracked by air traffic controllers all along.
00:45:26.640The real reason for the failure to intercept the four aircraft seems to have been the high number of military exercises that were being run by NORAD on September 11th out of their base in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado.
00:45:40.420All right, this is where things get a little interesting, guys, so pay attention here.
00:45:43.500As Webster Tarpley noted in his book 9-11, Synthetic Terror, staff exercises or command exercises are perfect for a rogue network, which is forced to conduct its operations using the same communications and computer systems used by other officers who are not necessarily party to the illegal operation.
00:46:02.280Interestingly enough, on the evening of September 10th, the security level for the NORAD computer system, called Infocon, had been dropped to normal, the lowest level.
00:46:12.240This made it easier for anyone to penetrate or compromise the computer.
00:46:15.420So basically, guys, what they're trying to say there is they're operating almost in the open, but there's plausible deniability for a majority of people and there's a minority that might know what is actually going on here.
00:46:26.580You know, are they, you know, that's potentially what they're inferring.
00:46:30.000Computer networks of the air defense system.
00:46:33.300On September 11th, between 4 and 10 military exercises had been scheduled, some of them involving false hijacks of commercial airplanes.
00:46:42.380This unusual number of exercises had two major consequences.
00:46:47.000One, they moved a large number of fighters out to Canada and Alaska.
00:46:51.860Two, they created a major confusion in the system as soon as the real hijackings were reported.
00:46:57.120We have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York, and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there to help us out.
00:48:00.360Apparently, someone took advantage of the situation.
00:48:03.060While the plane headed for the Pentagon was quickly approaching from the west, an unknown source, which was never identified, reported that American 11 was headed towards the Capitol,
00:48:11.640even though the plane had already crashed into the North Tower.
00:48:14.600I just had a report that American 11 is still in the air, and it's heading towards Washington.
00:52:13.020They should have had, like, backup, like, for emergencies.
00:52:15.400Yeah, that was, yeah, they had more focus on training.
00:52:19.560...who was the highest military authority on September 11th, has denied that the war games affected the military capacity of response.
00:52:26.860And the question was whether or not the activities of the four war games going on on September 11th actually impaired our ability to respond to the attacks.
00:52:40.920The answer to the question is no, did not impair our response.
00:52:43.960General Myers forgot to mention that on the morning of September 11th, only four planes were armed and ready to intercept terrorists in the eastern region of the country.
00:52:53.180I've determined, of course, that with only four aircraft, we cannot defend the whole northeastern United States.
00:52:58.240That was the sensation of frustration.
00:53:00.360Of, I don't have the forces available to do anything about this.
00:53:06.400Myers instead has even suggested that the war games helped the military response.
00:53:11.200General Eberhardt, who was in the commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command, as he testified in front of the 9-11 Commission, I believe he told them that it enhanced our ability to respond.
00:53:20.540What that means is all the battle positions that are normally not filled are indeed filled, so it was an easy transition from an exercise into a real-world situation.
00:53:31.200Again, Myers forgot to mention that the transition took place only after all tragic events had ended, around 11 o'clock.
00:53:38.860By 11 o'clock, the sense of alarm had spread across the country, fighter jets actually patrolling the skies.
00:53:45.740Our skies were turning to a war zone. Everywhere you turn, it was military jets and helicopters everywhere.
00:53:51.640George Bush returned to Washington on the evening of September 11.
00:53:54.920The president finally returns to Washington.
00:53:58.460An escort of six helicopters was waiting for him.
00:54:02.280300 fighters were defending the skies.
00:54:05.500Had there been 300 fighters ready to defend the skies on the morning of September 11, would the terrorist attacks have turned out the same way?
00:54:21.600Was the choice of scheduling so many exercises in the same day just a misfortunate call, or was it intentional?
00:54:28.740To answer this question, we need to take a closer look at some of the warnings the U.S. had received in the months prior to September 11.
00:54:35.300By the spring of 2001, the system was blinking red, according to intelligence chiefs.
00:54:41.980The U.S. administration has always maintained that they knew the attacks were on their way, but they didn't have specific information on them.
00:54:48.680I knew there was another attack planning. I knew there was another attack coming.
00:54:52.820And the obvious question behind that is, well, why didn't you do something about it?
00:55:00.500It was not specific as to time, nor place, nor manner of attack.
00:55:03.980And if you guys remember, we talked about this on the CIA episode that I did with you guys.
00:55:11.060They kept telling that analyst, who I showed you earlier, when she was warning them about bin Laden, they didn't have anything like that somewhat specific.
00:55:45.700A joint congressional inquiry on September 11 has revealed that, in spring and summer of 2001, there had been a flood of warnings about possible terrorist attacks in the United States, some using airplanes as weapons.
00:55:59.060In fact, as reported by the New York Times, American aviation officials were warned as early as 1998 that Al-Qaeda could seek to hijack a commercial jet and slam it into a U.S. landmark.
00:56:09.900The London Times has revealed that the British MI-6 warned the American intelligence services about a plot to hijack aircraft and crash them into buildings two years before the September 11 attacks.
00:56:22.680Russian President Vladimir Putin has said publicly...
00:56:25.360Even Putin, who hates the United States, had to give some info out.
00:56:30.340...that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the United States last summer in 2001 that suicide pilots were training for attacks on U.S. targets.
00:56:40.500German intelligence alerted the CIA in June 2001 that Middle Eastern terrorists were training for hijackings.
00:56:47.540The Sunday Herald has confirmed that Britain gave President Bush a categorical warning to expect multiple airline hijackings one month before the September 11 attacks.
00:56:57.300Then there was the infamous August 6th memo.
00:57:46.080Break this all down if you guys want to learn more about how, you know, how the CIA notified the White House and the higher-ups several times.
00:57:54.160The two-page memo states, FBI information indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country.
00:58:02.900CIA information, actually, but let's keep going.
00:58:05.760Consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks.
00:58:10.140Maybe it's no coincidence that the FBI advised their own boss to stop flying commercial airliners as early as six weeks before 9-11.
00:58:18.620Why is the only general of the United States doing all his air travel by a specially-chartered jet?
00:58:25.200The Justice Department cited what it called a threat assessment by the FBI and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.
00:58:35.640At this point, we can pose the following question.
00:58:38.460Knowing that the attacks were imminent, knowing that they might involve hijacked airliners, but not knowing where and when they could happen,
00:58:44.720would have been a good reason to beef up the defense and keep even more jets than usual on alert all across the country.
00:58:50.900Why instead schedule so many exercises in one day while leaving only four jets on alert to defend the very sector of the country that was most...
00:58:59.940One thing I do like about this documentary is they ask some pretty good questions whenever there's intel gaps.
00:59:07.640To bring even more confusion into the situation was a series of last-minute replacements and unexplained absences within the chain of command.
00:59:15.800The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was...
00:59:18.340This is pretty interesting as well. And just so you guys know how the government operates, the government operates on a chain of command.
00:59:23.540And what that basically means is, you know, you got lower-level people, then you go up in supervisors, then a good sense of the brass.
00:59:30.240And pretty much, you know, information flows upward. You got to go through your chain of command.
00:59:33.900So, like, when I was an agent, for example, I would go to my direct supervisor. If I had an issue, he would elevate it, and then it would keep going up.
00:59:39.600You can't jump the chain of command. That's a big issue.
00:59:41.480So, if I went to, like, my assistant special agent in charge instead of my supervisor, right, without him being in the know, that could be a problem.
00:59:48.140You always got to deal with the chain of command so that you guys kind of understand where I'm about to go here.
00:59:53.020You know, I mean, this works, obviously, in the private sector as well. It's the same way.
00:59:57.400But in the government, it's even more pronounced, especially when it comes to the military.
01:00:36.600Anytime you're, like, not available, you have to always get something called an acting, okay?
01:00:41.740So when I was an agent, right, for example, and you had the group supervisor, well, you needed someone there to, like, kind of be the supervisor in case the main supervisor wasn't there.
01:00:51.000So it would be called, I'm the acting GS, and sometimes they would act for a day, sometimes they would act for months on end.
01:00:55.920But before they get the, you know, the full-time position, they actually get it officially.
01:01:00.640So whenever you're not there and you have a position of authority or supervision, you're responsible for finding someone to be the acting, okay?
01:01:08.780So in this case, the fact that he didn't have someone acting in his capacity while he was gone is very stupid and questionable.
01:01:15.740Especially someone that's high-ranking like that.