The Tucker Carlson Show - The 9⧸11 Files： The CIA’s Secret Mission Gone Wrong ｜ Ep 1

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00:01:00.220 For 24 years now, politicians, the media, intel agencies in this country and abroad

00:01:06.020 have all demanded that you believe the official story about 9-11. And here's what it is.

00:01:12.380 They tell you a group of Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists, many of whom were known to U.S.

00:01:16.900 intel services, somehow managed to evade capture for years as they planned the most significant and

00:01:23.580 elaborate terror attack in human history. We're told that despite repeated encounters with the

00:01:29.640 FBI, the CIA, local law enforcement, airport security, foreign intel organizations, the right

00:01:37.440 information somehow never made it to the right people. The government failed because it just

00:01:42.980 didn't have the intelligence it needed. That's the story. That story is a lie. Nearly 25 years later,

00:01:49.600 the families of 3,000 civilians are still mourning the murder of their loved ones.

00:01:54.560 Anyone who doubts the official narrative is cast as a kook, a criminal, a fringe conspiracy theorist, 0.66

00:02:01.240 and punished. They've been blacklisted and censored and banned. Even as the leaders who failed to

00:02:07.500 protect our country on 9-11 use these attacks as a pretense to expand their own powers and permanently

00:02:14.620 transform the United States. None of this is speculation. All of it is true. Over the course

00:02:20.540 of this series, you will hear accounts from people who lived it. CIA officers and analysts who were

00:02:25.620 there, FBI agents from the bin Laden unit, family members of the victims. None of these people are

00:02:31.820 kooks. All of them have firsthand information. What they'll tell you is that what you have been told

00:02:38.320 about September 11th is not true. Why are we doing this? Our purpose is in part to make the strongest

00:02:45.060 possible case for a real investigation into 9-11 25 years later. A new 9-11 commission. One that is

00:02:53.580 honest. One that is not guided by partisan political interests. One that is not serving foreign powers.

00:02:58.940 To do this investigation, we spent many months looking into what actually happened and speaking to people

00:03:05.620 who saw it. We poured over thousands of pages of documents, mostly primary sources, but also

00:03:11.220 contemporaneous news reports and declassified government documents. Over the course of this

00:03:15.720 investigation, we made numerous findings that shocked us, not least of which the apparent role

00:03:22.360 that former CIA director John Brennan played in helping bring the 9-11 hijackers to the United States

00:03:29.140 and the remarkable lengths the CIA went to to protect the 9-11 hijackers from the FBI and from domestic

00:03:36.400 law enforcement. Telling the full story requires starting before the attacks, going back to something

00:03:43.720 called Alec Station. That was the CIA's bin Laden unit in 1999. My name is Mark Rossini. I'm a former FBI agent.

00:03:52.500 So from January 1999 to May of 2003, I was the FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force representative

00:04:00.600 to Alec Station at CIA headquarters. Before 9-11, there were no sources in al-Qaeda. None.

00:04:11.240 There was a group of Pashtun caretakers, okay? They called them the Trodpines. Trodpines were these 1.00

00:04:20.700 Pashtun people that were bin Laden's t-boys and t-gals, right? And they were the great source 1.00

00:04:27.340 of the Pakistani intel service that was feeding information from the Trodpines to the ISI

00:04:35.960 to the CIA about what was going on in al-Qaeda. They had all the electronic communication satellite

00:04:41.620 shit in the world, imagery. I remember looking at images of bin Laden, you know, in his courtyard. 0.92

00:04:46.240 Fine. But what's in his head? What's he saying? What's he doing? These people are 10,000 miles

00:04:52.460 away. They don't give a shit about American law. They don't care about going to jail. They want to 1.00

00:04:56.040 die. How are you going to get a source inside there? Before September 11th, U.S. intel services

00:05:01.900 got most of their intelligence on bin Laden from what was called the Hada Home switchboard in Sanae,

00:05:07.580 Yemen. That was a communications hub that bin Laden and his associates used to communicate with each 0.57

00:05:12.800 other. They were, at the time, living in Yemen. The FBI gained access to this after the 1998

00:05:19.440 embassy bombings in East Africa. How did we officially get the Hada Home in Sanae, Yemen

00:05:26.260 on the books, on the radar, if you will? Okay. Nairobi, 1998, August 7th. John Antiseff,

00:05:36.800 Special Agent John Antiseff, greatest FBI agent ever in the FBI, even better than me.

00:05:40.780 John flies over to Nairobi. And one of the survivors, one of the perpetrators who chickened out and ran

00:05:47.980 and lived, Daoud Rashid al-Awali, Saudi, he gets captured by the Kenyan police. John flies over from

00:05:56.780 New York, and already there have been two FBI agents interviewing Daoud. They were getting someplace, but they

00:06:03.900 really weren't getting that far, right? John walks in. And first thing he does, says, you need some water? You want a drink?

00:06:15.020 Did you, did you eat today? Did you pray? Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. He said, just, just relax.

00:06:22.080 Just, just, just, just, just, let's have a chat. He didn't beat him with a phone book. He didn't fucking

00:06:28.140 waterboard him. He didn't pull his fingernails out. He wasn't Mr. Tough Guy, like all these fucking 0.99

00:06:33.820 assholes like Dick Cheney want to believe, right? All pieces of shit. He talked to him like a human 1.00

00:06:40.720 being. Take me through the day. Talk to me. Well, I went to the hotel and I got my stuff ready. And did you,

00:06:48.100 did you call anybody? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I called this number. And he wrote it down. And he gave John

00:06:55.720 the number of the Hadahoum in Sana'a Yemen, which was the Al-Qaeda switchboard that we in the FBI had no 0.82

00:07:03.440 fucking clue existed up until that point. CIA and NSA did, because remember, they had been listening to

00:07:11.500 the Nairobi cell and their activity since 1996. We in the FBI didn't know about that number.

00:07:19.680 The Hadahoum wasn't just a communications hub for Al-Qaeda. It was the physical home of the father-in-law

00:07:25.780 of Khalid al-Medhar, one of the future 9-11 hijackers. At the end of 1999, listening to that phone

00:07:32.720 is when the CIA learns and the NSA learns that Khalid al-Medhar is going to be traveling

00:07:40.740 from there to Dubai, and then from Dubai onward to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to meet the summit.

00:07:51.700 The summit was a meeting of an operational cadre of Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists from around the

00:07:57.700 world. He was scheduled to travel on or about January 5th, 2000. The NSA,

00:08:02.720 has the ability, did and probably still has, to get any plane, airplane reservation at once

00:08:09.660 in the world and know about it, right? We knew his passport number, we had the phone, we

00:08:12.620 have everything. So we knew his travel information, we knew what flights he was taking, who was

00:08:16.360 seen he was going to sit in. The CIA arranges for when he gets to Dubai to be secondary, okay?

00:08:25.720 Not fully questioned, but, you know, talk to him a little bit. And then he goes to his hotel

00:08:31.640 room, and they arrange to search his room and go in. And when they go in, his passport is there,

00:08:38.580 and they take pictures of it, a photocopy it. And they send back the imagery. And lo and behold,

00:08:43.740 in his passport is a visa to go to the United States of America, issued out of the American

00:08:50.920 consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

00:08:53.340 According to one recently released court filings, quote, the visas were issued to facilitate an

00:08:58.840 operation run by the Saudis and the CIA spying operation. The station chief in Riyadh at the time

00:09:05.280 was future CIA director John Brennan. The CIA continued tracking Al-Mudhar to Kuala Lumpur,

00:09:13.160 where he met up with other al-Qaeda associates, including Nawaf al-Hazmi, a second future 9-11 hijacker.

00:09:19.640 He lands in Kuala Lumpur. They entrust the Malaysia Special Branch, police, to surveil this

00:09:26.500 terror summit in this park in Kuala Lumpur. And so much so to tail them and to surveil them,

00:09:36.280 et cetera. And that information ends up in a communication from Kuala Lumpur Station CIA

00:09:44.300 to CIA headquarters, through Alex Station, to the computer screen of me and Special Agent

00:09:53.720 Doug Miller of Washington Field Office FBI. You have this cable that lays out the meeting

00:10:00.880 Kuala Lumpur, the photocopying of his passport in Dubai, and the learning of the visa to go to

00:10:08.560 the United States of America. Doug Miller gets up from his cubicle of power, comes over to my

00:10:13.360 cubicle of power, and says, hey, we've got to tell the FBI about this. I said, Doug, you're damn 1.00

00:10:18.220 right. He goes, I'll write up the CIR. What is a CIR? A CIR is what is a central intelligence report.

00:10:26.380 Doug writes it. He sends it to me. I approve it. And it goes to the desk of Michael Ann Casey,

00:10:31.260 the CIA officer, analyst. And it sits in her queue, her electronic queue, and it doesn't move for like

00:10:40.980 a day or two. It should move in a fucking few hours. I'll never forget, like it was yesterday. 0.95

00:10:46.740 I'll never forget. I'm standing over her. I said, hey, Doug's CIR. He's got to go to the FBI.

00:10:54.280 He said, no, it's not. I said, well, why not? He said, because it's not FBI, not an FBI matter.

00:11:03.300 It's not FBI matter. He said, it's a CIA matter. And when and if we want the FBI to know,

00:11:09.600 we will tell them. And you are not to say anything. I said, but yeah, but they got a visa to come to the

00:11:17.860 U.S. Like, she said, no, we're handling it. And when we want to tell the FBI, we will.

00:11:24.340 And I looked at her. And you remember, she got up, but she put her hands on her hip,

00:11:28.100 pointing a finger at me. Now, in my naivete,

00:11:32.900 I believed her. And I have to live with that every day of my life that I believed her.

00:11:41.460 As the CIA was blocking the FBI detail from informing the Bureau, the hijackers were moving.

00:11:50.480 On January 8th, 2000, CIA surveillance teams reported that Al-Midhar had boarded a flight

00:11:56.380 to Bangkok, Thailand. He was accompanied by a man they identified as Al-Hazmi. According to the

00:12:02.520 official account, this is where the trail went cold. The CIA placed their names on a watch list and

00:12:08.180 asked that Thai authorities track their movements. Three months later, the Thai government reported

00:12:13.860 back. Al-Hazmi had boarded a United Airlines flight to Los Angeles. Al-Midhar was with him.

00:12:20.680 The two hijackers had arrived in the United States. 0.98

00:12:23.980 But here's my problem with this whole fucking thing and the whole subsequent investigation of 9-11. 0.97

00:12:30.900 You have the CIA then following one man and then two men all over the planet and then eventually 0.99

00:12:40.900 even to America, right? Landing in Los Angeles, California, and you don't tell the FBI.

00:12:47.140 But why would the CIA want to hide the highly relevant and potentially dangerous fact that two

00:12:53.560 known Al-Qaeda terrorists had just landed in California? According to a recently released court

00:12:59.120 filing, former White House counterterrorisms, our Richard Clark, told government investigators

00:13:03.900 that the, quote, CIA was running a false flag operation to recruit the hijackers.

00:13:09.900 When Kofra Black became the head of the counterterrorism center at CIA,

00:13:14.240 he was aghast that they had no sources in Al-Qaeda. So he told me, I'm going to try to get sources in Al-Qaeda.

00:13:22.360 I can understand them possibly saying, we need to develop sources inside Al-Qaeda.

00:13:32.840 When we do that, we can't tell anybody about it.

00:13:36.140 After Clark made that claim publicly, he received an angry call from former director of the CIA,

00:13:41.960 George Tenet, who did not deny the allegations made by Mr. Clark, end quote.

00:13:46.400 But when we reached out to Tenet, his spokesperson denied that the CIA was recruiting hijackers,

00:13:52.020 calling it false rumors and saying, quote, that's categorically not true.

00:13:57.360 He also recalled that the executive director of the 9-11 commission, Philip Zelikow,

00:14:02.260 blocked the commission's investigation into the matter at the behest of Condoleezza Rice.

00:14:07.580 CIA had this delusional grand plan. So the CIA, with their information that they had from,

00:14:12.940 this is the Hada House, and their own psychological analysis of everybody in that team,

00:14:18.900 they figured the best way is maybe to recruit somebody who came over from Malaysia. 0.99

00:14:29.440 We kept the FBI at bay because we told Mark Rossini and Doug Miller to shut the fuck up. 0.69

00:14:36.840 So let's just try to get inside there. And that's what went wrong. 0.93

00:14:46.540 That was the grand lie, the grand risk, the grand delusion. 1.00

00:14:53.640 You had a duty to protect Americans, and you failed because of your fucking fantastical delusion 0.99

00:14:59.260 that you could recruit somebody inside the cell. 0.97

00:15:00.900 The official 9-11 report does not address the CIA's plan to recruit the hijackers.

00:15:06.980 It's not even mentioned. It's possible this is because the CIA blocked 9-11 commission investigators

00:15:13.080 from talking to the agents who participated in the plot.

00:15:17.260 Amazingly, the CIA's director of operations kept the CIA operative attempting to recruit the hijackers,

00:15:23.460 referred to as VVV in the documents, away from the commission's investigators.

00:15:28.720 The consequence of this? The commission's explanation for this story is that the CIA made an honest mistake.

00:15:36.280 The actual language in the report says the CIA played, quote,

00:15:40.220 zone defense, and the FBI had a man-to-man approach to counterterrorism.

00:15:46.020 The difference in strategies is why the CIA didn't tell the FBI that terrorists had arrived on American soil.

00:15:53.140 Well, incredibly, the commission investigators didn't ask the CIA director at the time, George Tenet,

00:15:59.760 about the summit in Kuala Lumpur, or why the CIA had blocked the FBI from being warned.

00:16:06.980 It wasn't the story they wanted.

00:16:09.140 And that is the crutch of the matter, and that is the truth, and no one has ever answered those questions. 0.60

00:16:14.160 No one has the balls to because they're afraid, because the House will come tumbling down.

00:16:18.740 So how exactly did the CIA try to recruit the 9-11 hijackers? 0.96

00:16:25.200 Well, one amazing thing about their arrival is that they didn't try to hide.

00:16:29.440 The hijackers used their real names while in the United States.

00:16:32.240 They operated in plain daylight.

00:16:34.620 Al-Hazmi and Al-Midhar lived in San Diego for more than a year before the attacks.

00:16:40.420 They lived openly.

00:16:41.260 In fact, they were so open that Hazmi's name, address, and a home phone number were listed in the San Diego phone book.

00:16:50.300 When they arrived, the hijackers encountered a Saudi intel operative called Omar al-Bayoumi.

00:16:56.540 They met at a restaurant outside of Los Angeles.

00:16:59.520 The CIA utilized the Saudis in the form of Omar al-Bayoumi to spy for them and to gather intelligence.

00:17:09.460 Before 9-11, the CIA was forbidden from engaging in domestic spying.

00:17:15.580 They used the Saudi intelligence as a workaround.

00:17:18.440 We'll rely upon the Saudi G.I.D., General Intelligence Directorate, their version of the CIA, via Prince Bandar, via their man, Omar al-Bayoumi,

00:17:29.000 to keep us informed as to the activity of these terrorists.

00:17:33.340 Bayoumi's notebook, which was uncovered when British law enforcement raided his home in the U.K.,

00:17:39.660 contained a drawing of an airplane and mathematical calculations related to flying it.

00:17:45.340 The 9-11 Commission investigators never saw this.

00:17:48.520 At the time, al-Bayoumi had a no-show job at a Saudi aviation contractor called Avco.

00:17:54.080 The company's employees say he was one of roughly 50 ghost employees working there at the time,

00:17:59.140 taking the paycheck but never coming to work.

00:18:01.160 According to declassified government documents, an investigator from the 9-11 Commission said al-Bayoumi was receiving

00:18:07.800 substantial sums of money from the Saudi embassy in Washington prior to the 9-11 attacks,

00:18:13.600 that the money was being funneled from accounts at Riggs Bank in Georgetown,

00:18:18.280 belonging to Haifa bin Faisal, the wife of the Saudi ambassador to the United States.

00:18:22.940 By using the Saudis as a proxy to recruit the 9-11 hijackers, the CIA gave itself cover.

00:18:28.540 If things went wrong, they could push a narrative that blamed the Saudi government for the attacks, which is what they did.

00:18:35.840 For all intents and purposes, Omar al-Bayoumi was an employee of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington, D.C.,

00:18:42.240 in their consulate in Los Angeles, California.

00:18:45.000 Al-Bayoumi convinced the hijackers to move to San Diego.

00:18:48.100 He helped them find an apartment.

00:18:49.180 He served as a co-signer on the lease to that apartment.

00:18:52.640 He paid their first month's rent and deposit.

00:18:55.220 He got them bank accounts.

00:18:56.300 He got them driver's license.

00:18:57.920 He introduced them to many other radical Muslims in the area, including the cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

00:19:04.580 Eventually, al-Midhar went home to Yemen.

00:19:07.480 Khalil al-Midhar leaves America for his daughter's birth, right?

00:19:11.240 And in that time, he loses his passport.

00:19:17.340 He claims he went to Afghanistan.

00:19:20.320 He goes back to Jeddah and gets another passport.

00:19:24.220 And by this time, even prior, as I understand it now, the Saudis had identified the terrorists,

00:19:35.140 the hijackers, as potential threats to the kingdom and had put chips in their passports,

00:19:42.140 identifying them as a threat.

00:19:46.720 Al-Midhar comes back to the United States, I believe it was on July 4th, 2001.

00:19:52.060 He's allowed back in.

00:19:54.640 Not stopped, not questioned.

00:19:56.760 So here's a guy that the CIA knew came to America, had been at this terror summit meeting

00:20:03.700 in Malaysia in January 2000.

00:20:07.560 He's allowed to leave and come back.

00:20:11.540 Midhar was able to exit and enter the country at will because he was issued a multi-visit

00:20:16.220 U.S. visa.

00:20:17.640 According to a summary of an interview with an FBI agent from Alex Station, quote,

00:20:21.080 Al-Hamsi and Al-Midhar obtained their visas to enter the United States at the American consulate

00:20:26.220 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

00:20:28.020 All told, the vast majority of the 19 9-11 hijackers had their visas issued at that consulate

00:20:34.960 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

00:20:36.840 At the time, John Brennan was running the CIA station there.

00:20:42.160 Just a few days before Al-Midhar re-entered the country at JFK Airport in New York,

00:20:46.420 the FBI and the CIA held a joint meeting in New York City to discuss the bombing of the

00:20:51.800 USS Cole, which Al-Midhar was involved in.

00:20:54.640 Killed 17 soldiers on the USS Cole.

00:20:57.520 An FBI agent was shown a photograph of Al-Midhar taken at the summit in Kuala Lumpur.

00:21:02.880 The agent asked the CIA who this man was, but the CIA once again refused to tell them.

00:21:09.060 It wasn't until August of 2001 that the CIA finally alerted the FBI.

00:21:15.820 And of course, by then, it was too late.

00:21:18.120 It's not just Mark Rossini who testifies to this.

00:21:21.560 Another anonymous FBI agent told investigators that, quote, 0.95

00:21:25.140 This is the failure of the 9-11 Commission and every other fucking commission that ever existed 0.98

00:21:48.040 after that. 0.97

00:21:49.600 But if the CIA was grooming the hijackers as sources, the FBI failed too.

00:21:56.260 When Al-Hazmi and Al-Midhar were in California, they lived for a period in the home of an FBI

00:22:01.480 informant called Abdu Sattar.

00:22:05.080 And yet somehow, the FBI never learned about this.

00:22:08.600 Then, less than a month before the terror attacks, the FBI began an investigation into a French

00:22:15.240 Moroccan national called Zacharias Moussaoui.

00:22:18.280 He had just moved to Minneapolis from Oklahoma, where he resumed aviation training.

00:22:23.880 After raising suspicions during training, he was arrested on August 16th and charged with

00:22:28.780 immigration violations.

00:22:30.620 But agents were denied permission to search his laptop and the room where he was staying.

00:22:35.540 His exact connection to the hijacking remains unclear even now.

00:22:40.220 But he did receive wire transfers from Ramzi bin al-Shib, who was also sending money to the

00:22:45.440 hijackers.

00:22:46.920 In July 2001, an FBI agent stationed in the Phoenix field office sent a memo to headquarters

00:22:52.280 theorizing that there could be, quote,

00:22:54.440 A coordinated effort by Osama bin Laden to send individuals to the United States to receive 0.94

00:22:59.240 aviation training.

00:23:00.900 For some reason, this memo was never received by headquarters,

00:23:04.760 not until after 9-11.

00:23:07.740 Why?

00:23:08.880 Possibly because, as late as 2003, the FBI didn't have a functioning internal email system.

00:23:16.040 Most case files were not digitized.

00:23:17.780 They weren't searchable.

00:23:19.200 And employees did not have access to the internet.

00:23:21.660 That's true.

00:23:23.180 By September 2001, the Bureau's computers were so out of date, it took 12 commands simply

00:23:29.120 to save a document.

00:23:30.020 And in the aftermath of the attack, the FBI distributed photographs of the suspected hijackers

00:23:35.720 via express mail.

00:23:37.540 They didn't have scanners.

00:23:39.580 The Bush administration worked hard for us not to know any of this.

00:23:43.280 They hid it.

00:23:44.440 Many of these details were discovered during the congressional joint inquiry into 9-11.

00:23:48.300 But when Congress released its report, the 28 pages dealing with the hijackers' time in

00:23:54.520 Southern California were hidden.

00:23:56.420 They were redacted.

00:23:58.540 When a man called Philip Zellicoe took over as the commission's executive director, he reached

00:24:03.140 a secret agreement with the White House to block his investigators from accessing records

00:24:08.260 related to the hijackers until the White House had already screened them.

00:24:12.240 Government documents show that the commission investigator assigned to this topic complained

00:24:17.460 that, quote, Zellicoe limited the number of witnesses that commission investigators could

00:24:21.660 interview.

00:24:23.060 And just days before the report was released, Dieter Snell, senior counsel to the commission,

00:24:28.100 attempted to remove most of the details of the Saudi collaboration with the hijackers.

00:24:32.980 Some of the findings were included in the end, but they were buried in the footnotes.

00:24:37.040 The truth is, the official 9-11 commission report, sold to the American public and the

00:24:43.100 world for decades as the definitive account of what happened that day, is a lie.

00:24:48.660 9-11 commission is a cover-up.

00:24:54.220 But how did the Bush administration manage to hijack what was sold as an independent commission?

00:25:00.480 And what exactly were they trying to hide?

00:25:03.100 We'll reveal what we found in the next episode.

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The Tucker Carlson Show - September 23, 2025

The 9⧸11 Files： The CIA’s Secret Mission Gone Wrong ｜ Ep 1

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