The Tucker Carlson Show - The 9⧸11 Files： They Could Have Stopped It ｜ Ep 3

00:00:00.240 The Bush administration did everything it possibly could to undermine an actual investigation into what happened on September 11th.

00:00:08.240 But why? What were they trying to hide?

00:00:10.640 There's an old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says,

00:00:14.880 Fool me once, shame on, shame on you.

00:00:24.060 If you fool me, we can't get fooled again.

00:00:25.860 Well, for one thing, the United States had incredible intelligence on bin Laden and his plans, precise intelligence, actionable intelligence.

00:00:33.640 On August 6th, 2001, President Bush received a presidential daily briefing.

00:00:38.780 Its title, literally, Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. 0.89

00:00:43.660 It continued, Al-Qaeda members, including some who are U.S. citizens, have resided in or traveled to the U.S. for years,

00:00:50.840 and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks.

00:00:54.820 And then it added this.

00:00:56.840 FBI information indicates patterns of suspicious activity consistent with preparations for hijacking.

00:01:03.380 Bin Laden was mentioned no fewer than 40 times in the president's daily intelligence briefing.

00:01:08.240 CIA Director George Tenet said that in the summer of 2001, quote, the system was blinking red.

00:01:14.880 So how far-fetched was it that Al-Qaeda might hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings?

00:01:20.320 Not very far-fetched, it turns out.

00:01:22.100 In May 2001, an intelligence report concluded this.

00:01:26.860 Operatives may hijack airplanes, end quote.

00:01:29.580 The FAA issued a circular to airlines warning of heightened increase in hijackings.

00:01:34.920 And then in July of 2001, the FAA issued another circular, this one noting that, quote,

00:01:40.820 currently active terror groups were known to plan and train for hijackings and were able to build and conceal explosives and luggage.

00:01:49.900 Between 1999 and 2001, NORAD, which defends North American airspace, simulated a foreign hijacked airliner crashing into a building in the United States as part of a training exercise.

00:02:01.220 And they were not alone.

00:02:03.020 The National Reconnaissance Office, a little-known intelligence agency that runs our spy satellites and remote-controlled surveillance planes,

00:02:09.640 was planning an exercise in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings.

00:02:15.200 That exercise was on September 11, 2001, and planned to take place just a couple of miles from Dulles Airport.

00:02:22.700 That's where the American Airlines flight number 77 had taken off before it crashed into the Pentagon.

00:02:28.780 In other words, the idea of al-Qaeda hijacking an airplane and flying into a building was entirely plausible before 9-11.

00:02:37.380 Officials knew it could happen, and there were other signs as well.

00:02:40.660 During the presidential transition in 2000 and 2001, nine months before 9-11,

00:02:45.420 Bill Clinton told President Bush,

00:02:47.780 I think by far your greatest threat is bin Laden and al-Qaeda. 0.97

00:02:52.740 In January of 2001, Philip Zelicow, the future executive director of the 9-11 Commission,

00:02:58.940 attended a briefing in which Condoleezza Rice, the future national security advisor,

00:03:03.300 was warned by Sandy Berger, that would be Bill Clinton's outgoing national security advisor,

00:03:08.600 that, quote,

00:03:09.340 the biggest national security threat facing this country is al-Qaeda.

00:03:12.980 On July 10, 2001, the CIA director, George Tenet, and his counterterrorism deputy,

00:03:18.280 Jay Kofor Black, were so alarmed by intelligence pointing to an impending attack by al-Qaeda

00:03:23.320 that they demanded an emergency meeting at the White House with Condoleezza Rice and her Security Council staff.

00:03:29.520 In fact, on the morning of the attacks,

00:03:32.280 director of central intelligence, Tenet, told a U.S. senator,

00:03:35.260 quote,

00:03:35.500 I wonder if it has anything to do with this guy taking pilot training.

00:03:39.560 And of course it did.

00:03:40.400 By any measure, including according to the heavily biased commission report,

00:03:45.380 George W. Bush, and particularly Condoleezza Rice,

00:03:49.000 had ample warning that al-Qaeda was plotting an attack.

00:03:52.240 And by all accounts, the U.S. intel agencies were fully aware the hijackers were in the United States.

00:03:57.640 And in fact, it helped at least two of them get to the United States.

00:04:01.280 U.S. intelligence was so strong at the time, on the morning of the attacks,

00:04:04.980 the majority of the hijackers were flagged at the airport for additional screening.

00:04:10.320 The question is, how did they wind up on the watch list in the first place?

00:04:14.280 The report never tells us.

00:04:15.780 Well, my name is Mike Scheuer.

00:04:18.680 I worked at the CIA for 22 years.

00:04:22.200 And from 1995 until 1999, I was chief of the Osama bin Laden unit.

00:04:27.980 I would say it was 1983 to 1992.

00:04:33.160 I worked on Afghanistan.

00:04:35.980 I worked on the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.

00:04:40.940 Bin Laden was a popular name during the war against the Soviets.

00:04:44.300 We knew he was fighting in Afghanistan with the Mujahideen.

00:04:49.320 He was the poster boy for jihad in Saudi Arabia. 0.96

00:04:53.260 So he was well-known throughout the Arab world.

00:04:55.820 Osama bin Laden was born in 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, into a well-connected and wealthy family.

00:05:01.820 He was one of 50 siblings.

00:05:03.620 His father built a multi-billion-dollar construction business,

00:05:06.460 reconstructing, among other things, the cities of Mecca and Medina.

00:05:09.620 In 1979, Osama bin Laden moved to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet invasion there.

00:05:14.500 After the war, he returned to Saudi Arabia.

00:05:16.520 But he was eventually exiled to Sudan because he was openly critical of the Saudi government's close ties to the United States.

00:05:22.940 In 1996, he returned to Afghanistan and declared war on the U.S.

00:05:26.960 In 1996, bin Laden announced what he said was his declaration of war against the United States.

00:05:35.380 And it's a very compelling document to this day because it doesn't have anything to do

00:05:41.180 with what the American people were told about either Islam or al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden.

00:05:48.200 America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.

00:05:53.980 The basis of the declaration of war from him was, get out of our land. 0.98

00:05:59.280 That was a compelling message within a Middle Eastern framework that had been dominated by

00:06:05.140 the United States government and the Israelis since the end of World War II.

00:06:10.160 Since then, the United States has been repeatedly attacked in the region.

00:06:13.720 Now the fanatics behind this bomb have given the French soldiers and their American counterparts

00:06:18.400 10 days to leave Lebanon or die. 0.84

00:06:20.820 In 1983, a group called Islamic Jihad murdered more than 300 U.S. Marines at a military barracks in Beirut.

00:06:28.000 At the time, it was the largest non-nuclear explosion since Nagasaki.

00:06:32.020 The four-story concrete building collapsed in a pile of rubble.

00:06:35.560 More than 200 of the sleeping men were killed in that one hideous, insane attack.

00:06:39.800 In 1993, a Pakistani national called Ramzi Youssef bombed the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.

00:06:45.620 The key question now, was this a one-off attack or the start of a campaign of bombing?

00:06:51.660 By 1996, al-Qaeda had emerged as the single clearest threat to the United States.

00:06:56.900 In response to that threat, the CIA created something called ALEC Station,

00:07:00.640 otherwise known as the bin Laden unit, which Mike Scheuer ran.

00:07:03.880 But as it turned out, not everyone at the CIA wanted to help fight al-Qaeda.

00:07:07.980 We wanted some basic information about Osama bin Laden, his bank accounts, his health information, his educational information, very basic things.

00:07:19.340 We kept sending a message because it was important.

00:07:23.080 We were building a base of data.

00:07:25.120 And so the COS in Saudi Arabia at the time, John Brennan, we didn't know if he was dealing with them on the issue or not.

00:07:36.060 And so we finally sent a message that said, didn't say pretty please, but said, please do this as quickly as possible.

00:07:44.960 He called Tenant.

00:07:47.820 And that was the end of that.

00:07:52.060 Don't send Brennan any more of these notes.

00:07:55.500 So whatever the reason was, I don't know.

00:07:59.760 But, you know, if you identify a liaison service who you know has information you need,

00:08:06.980 it's not impossible to persuade them to do it since we defend Saudi Arabia, especially in that case.

00:08:14.040 We were told not to send any more cables on that issue to Riyadh.

00:08:18.380 Just because I was the chief of operations on Osama bin Laden didn't mean there wasn't somebody else working on the same issue in an opposite direction.

00:08:26.980 And as it turned out, the opposite direction carried the day with the approval of presidents.

00:08:34.180 As Brennan was withholding critical information on bin Laden,

00:08:37.880 the CIA's counterterrorism center started developing a plan to capture bin Laden at a terrorist training facility known as Tarnak Farms.

00:08:45.620 Tarnak Farms is where he lived.

00:08:47.880 We knew Osama bin Laden, his family, Zawahiri's family,

00:08:54.680 and a couple of other, the most senior al-Qaeda people were going to be there.

00:09:00.380 And initially the administration went along with it.

00:09:03.620 The plan was finalized with the help of friendly Afghan tribal leaders.

00:09:07.340 It was even rehearsed twice in the United States in late 1997.

00:09:10.700 All it needed was approval from the White House.

00:09:13.900 On March 7, 1998, Richard Clark, who headed the Interagency Counterterrorism Security Group,

00:09:19.500 described the plan as embryonic to then-National Security Advisor Sandy Berger,

00:09:24.260 even as the CIA was conducting its third rehearsal of the action.

00:09:29.460 Military officers in the Pentagon reviewed the plan,

00:09:32.480 and despite some mild misgivings that could have been attributed to interdepartmental rivalries,

00:09:37.100 they generally expressed their satisfaction.

00:09:39.700 They supported it.

00:09:40.860 Legal justifications were prepared in advance from the CIA to the NSC for approval.

00:09:45.680 The Attorney General of the United States, the FBI director,

00:09:48.520 and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,

00:09:50.980 where bin Laden was to be tried if he was captured alive,

00:09:53.920 were all briefed on the plan.

00:09:55.560 The CIA ran a fourth rehearsal between May 20th and May 24th,

00:09:59.980 with the expectation that the plan would be executed in late June of that year,

00:10:04.020 and no later than late July.

00:10:05.580 And yet, less than a week later,

00:10:08.100 the CIA's assets in the field were informed that the operation

00:10:11.160 had been suspended by the Clinton administration.

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00:11:49.120 When we wrote the operational plan,

00:11:52.880 you have to keep in mind,

00:11:55.440 speaking to the policymaker,

00:11:57.180 you have to keep in mind

00:11:58.360 that they have their families there.

00:12:03.320 And if there is violence,

00:12:05.380 if they don't surrender,

00:12:06.480 they're liable to be people killed.

00:12:09.860 Noncombatants.

00:12:10.860 They said, okay, we'll go ahead with it.

00:12:12.660 So that one went almost to the starting gate,

00:12:18.500 and one of the last dumps of overhead imagery we got

00:12:23.340 happened to show a child swing set,

00:12:28.320 and they suddenly said, oh, we can't do that.

00:12:30.800 What if that picture gets out,

00:12:32.000 and we, you know, we'll be responsible.

00:12:34.080 A clear pattern emerged throughout

00:12:36.080 Shoyer's tenure at Alec Station.

00:12:38.060 Whenever there was a chance to kill or capture

00:12:40.520 Osama bin Laden,

00:12:41.660 the Clinton administration chose not to do it.

00:12:44.000 We had an operation that was planned

00:12:46.000 to kidnap bin Laden within Afghanistan.

00:12:50.260 The plan was supposed to unfold

00:12:52.280 just days before al-Qaeda

00:12:53.860 bombed the American embassies

00:12:55.420 in Kenya and Tanzania.

00:12:56.820 It was a plan that required

00:12:59.520 getting him out of the country

00:13:02.500 and then taking him to another country.

00:13:04.840 And it was approved,

00:13:06.840 and then it was, at the last minute,

00:13:08.700 it was unapproved.

00:13:10.280 And then a week later, the embassies went up.

00:13:12.700 The greatest fear tonight

00:13:13.840 is that what has happened here

00:13:15.580 will herald some alarming new phase

00:13:18.100 in international terrorism.

00:13:20.540 About four o'clock in the morning,

00:13:22.240 George Tenet, who was the DCI at the time,

00:13:25.640 calls my office number,

00:13:26.620 and I pick it up and said,

00:13:27.680 yep, Shoyer.

00:13:29.160 I said, yeah.

00:13:30.460 And somebody else put him on

00:13:32.780 and he said,

00:13:35.820 can we revive that program?

00:13:37.240 The president wants to know

00:13:38.180 if we can revive the program

00:13:39.720 on the capture operation.

00:13:42.020 By Tenet's words,

00:13:43.280 realized they missed an opportunity

00:13:44.740 perhaps to stop the operation.

00:13:46.940 But that got to be a habit

00:13:49.740 throughout the rest of my career there.

00:13:51.840 Less than two weeks after the attacks,

00:13:54.260 Clinton launched cruise missiles

00:13:55.620 at targets he said

00:13:56.800 were associated with bin Laden.

00:13:58.000 Today, I ordered our armed forces

00:13:59.580 to strike at terrorist-related facilities

00:14:01.960 in Afghanistan and Sudan.

00:14:04.160 Our mission was clear.

00:14:06.440 To strike at the network

00:14:07.720 of radical groups

00:14:08.800 affiliated with

00:14:09.920 and funded by

00:14:11.060 Osama bin Laden.

00:14:12.440 But the strike was worthless.

00:14:14.880 In fact, it was embarrassing.

00:14:16.940 The Pentagon targeted

00:14:17.800 suspected terrorist training facilities

00:14:19.600 in Afghanistan

00:14:20.280 and a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan,

00:14:22.940 which U.S. intelligence falsely claimed

00:14:24.860 was making chemical weapons.

00:14:26.440 The pattern became clearer over time.

00:14:28.720 The CIA would offer a way

00:14:30.060 to capture or kill bin Laden

00:14:31.600 and then somebody would call off 0.92

00:14:33.100 the strike at the last moment.

00:14:34.360 To me, it's a mystery.

00:14:35.960 To me, going after Osama bin Laden 0.64

00:14:39.360 was hard work,

00:14:40.900 but it could have been accomplished

00:14:42.580 by 97.

00:14:44.160 And then from 97

00:14:45.220 till I left in 99,

00:14:46.620 there were 10 more opportunities.

00:14:48.460 And none of them

00:14:49.240 were taken advantage. 0.92

00:14:50.540 Kill, capture, 0.99

00:14:51.580 whatever the government wanted to do. 0.93

00:14:53.200 And the chances kept coming.

00:14:54.780 In May of 1999,

00:14:56.180 U.S. intelligence services

00:14:57.300 had a credible lead

00:14:58.300 that bin Laden was at his compound

00:14:59.780 near Kandahar, Afghanistan.

00:15:01.700 Officials in both the U.S. military

00:15:03.500 and the CIA agreed

00:15:04.960 this was the best opportunity

00:15:06.700 they could hope for 0.99

00:15:07.340 to kill bin Laden.

00:15:08.420 They had at least 0.90

00:15:09.300 three opportunities to strike,

00:15:11.280 but they never did.

00:15:12.700 Somebody got wet feet.

00:15:14.340 Schoyer was removed from his role

00:15:15.900 running Alex Station in 1999.

00:15:18.500 He was replaced

00:15:19.160 with a figure called Richard Blee,

00:15:21.200 who barely comes up

00:15:22.380 in the 9-11 commission report.

00:15:23.860 On October 12, 2000,

00:15:25.800 the failure to act in bin Laden

00:15:27.160 caught up to the agency

00:15:28.480 and with our country

00:15:29.740 when the USS Cole,

00:15:31.480 a destroyer anchored

00:15:32.400 in Aden, Yemen,

00:15:33.860 was attacked

00:15:34.420 by a suicide bomber.

00:15:35.720 Killed 17 soldiers

00:15:37.100 on the USS Cole.

00:15:38.700 17 American servicemen died,

00:15:41.160 but this time,

00:15:42.140 the government didn't strike

00:15:43.160 anyone or anything

00:15:44.520 in retaliation.

00:15:46.040 The official reason

00:15:46.940 given by the report

00:15:47.900 for the lack of action

00:15:48.860 was that the administration

00:15:50.100 lacked definitive proof

00:15:51.420 that al-Qaeda was responsible

00:15:52.700 for the terror attack.

00:15:54.140 We knew right away

00:15:54.940 it was Osama bin Laden.

00:15:55.940 And then I hear Clinton

00:15:57.260 on the radio

00:16:00.060 or on the television

00:16:01.800 saying,

00:16:03.480 well, my experts,

00:16:05.600 my team,

00:16:06.460 my intelligence community

00:16:08.560 says we can't be sure

00:16:09.780 if it's Osama bin Laden

00:16:12.460 or not,

00:16:13.680 or al-Qaeda or not.

00:16:15.680 And we just stood there

00:16:16.620 and said,

00:16:17.000 no, what is he talking about?

00:16:18.920 In this case,

00:16:19.800 the 9-11 commission

00:16:20.660 offers excuses for Clinton,

00:16:22.600 citing an absurd blame game

00:16:24.680 with Clinton administration officials

00:16:26.120 who claimed they were

00:16:26.840 waiting for the legal go-ahead

00:16:28.560 from the CIA and the FBI.

00:16:30.400 But at the same time,

00:16:31.580 then-CIA director George Tenet

00:16:33.200 is reported to have said

00:16:34.540 that he was surprised

00:16:35.660 to hear the White House

00:16:36.640 was awaiting a conclusion

00:16:37.740 from him

00:16:38.300 on responsibility

00:16:39.180 for the coal attack.

00:16:40.500 Everyone already knew

00:16:41.380 who did it.

00:16:42.080 My impression

00:16:42.840 over the course of my career,

00:16:44.760 after over 22 years,

00:16:46.020 is that

00:16:46.360 the first thing

00:16:47.960 the seventh floor

00:16:48.840 ever considered

00:16:50.240 when you brought them

00:16:51.920 in operation to approve

00:16:53.120 was what if we fail

00:16:55.640 and how will we get roasted

00:16:57.380 by the media?

00:16:58.480 It took Bill Clinton

00:16:59.420 just 13 days

00:17:00.740 to respond to the embassy bombings.

00:17:02.640 But for some reason,

00:17:03.720 a reason that has never

00:17:04.420 been explained,

00:17:05.600 he had no response at all

00:17:07.080 to the attack

00:17:07.880 on the USS Cole.

00:17:09.080 Even more bizarre

00:17:10.060 and telling

00:17:10.780 is the Bush administration's

00:17:12.180 explanation

00:17:12.540 for why it didn't respond.

00:17:14.500 It was most clearly

00:17:15.240 articulated

00:17:15.900 by the neocon number two

00:17:17.640 at the Pentagon,

00:17:18.640 Paul Wolfowitz.

00:17:19.560 He described the coal bombing

00:17:20.880 as stale

00:17:21.860 by the time

00:17:22.520 Bush took office.

00:17:23.540 It was just five months

00:17:24.860 after the terror attacks.

00:17:26.500 Wolfowitz wanted

00:17:27.220 something bigger

00:17:28.100 to respond to

00:17:29.060 and soon

00:17:29.800 he got it.

00:17:30.700 It was remarkable

00:17:31.480 to watch this,

00:17:33.280 especially after

00:17:33.980 the man had declared

00:17:34.820 war on us,

00:17:36.120 reiterated it,

00:17:37.440 said,

00:17:37.780 your time is coming.

00:17:39.240 We hadn't had

00:17:39.820 a friend like that

00:17:40.880 in terms of

00:17:41.900 divulging

00:17:42.480 what their true mission was

00:17:43.880 since General Giop.

00:17:45.960 And we didn't listen

00:17:46.940 to him

00:17:47.300 and look where it got us.

00:17:49.060 And look where

00:17:49.600 we are now.

00:17:50.880 Not only 9-11,

00:17:52.380 but the whole,

00:17:54.580 we lost another war

00:17:55.920 to the Afghans.

00:17:57.300 If you want to understand

00:17:58.860 why and how

00:18:00.160 9-11 happened,

00:18:01.700 the years to look at

00:18:02.600 most closely

00:18:03.440 are 1999

00:18:04.600 to 2001.

00:18:06.320 Those years

00:18:07.040 coincided with

00:18:07.780 George Tenet's

00:18:08.620 implementation

00:18:09.260 of what became

00:18:10.080 known simply as

00:18:10.980 The Plan.

00:18:12.080 To formulate this effort,

00:18:13.160 CIA Director Tenet

00:18:14.000 elevated a man

00:18:14.920 called Kofor Black,

00:18:16.680 a former spy

00:18:17.460 who'd risen to head

00:18:18.260 CIA stations

00:18:19.120 in the Sudan

00:18:19.720 and elsewhere

00:18:20.260 to Director

00:18:21.080 of the Counterterrorism Center.

00:18:22.740 To give you an idea

00:18:23.600 of Kofor Black's character,

00:18:25.020 in 2017,

00:18:26.400 he joined Hunter Biden

00:18:27.700 on the board of directors

00:18:28.780 of Burisma,

00:18:29.880 the Ukrainian gas company.

00:18:31.480 But at that time,

00:18:32.360 in late 1999,

00:18:33.760 the core of the future

00:18:34.900 9-11 hijackers

00:18:36.040 were gathering

00:18:36.720 in Afghanistan.

00:18:37.500 These 22 individuals

00:18:39.000 do not account

00:18:39.600 for all the terrorist

00:18:40.360 activity in the world.

00:18:42.500 But they're among

00:18:43.240 the most dangerous,

00:18:44.560 the leaders

00:18:45.660 and key supporters,

00:18:47.480 the planners

00:18:48.280 and strategists.

00:18:51.240 They must be found.

00:18:52.960 Here's a summary

00:18:53.780 of some of the warnings

00:18:54.780 they had.

00:18:55.740 In December 1999,

00:18:57.080 a 23-year-old

00:18:57.900 Algerian man

00:18:58.860 called Ahmed Rassam

00:18:59.960 attempted to cross

00:19:00.940 with a rental car

00:19:01.900 on the ferry

00:19:02.640 from Victoria,

00:19:03.560 British Columbia

00:19:04.160 to Port Angeles,

00:19:05.600 Washington State.

00:19:07.200 Thanks to alert

00:19:08.400 border security

00:19:09.220 in Port Angeles,

00:19:10.600 Rassam was apprehended

00:19:11.660 with hundreds of pounds

00:19:12.920 of explosives

00:19:13.540 in his car.

00:19:14.600 His plan had been

00:19:15.540 to set off a car bomb

00:19:16.860 at LAX

00:19:17.760 on January 1st, 2000.

00:19:20.040 But the biggest

00:19:20.920 warning signs

00:19:22.000 of an appending attack

00:19:23.040 in the United States

00:19:23.860 came in the summer

00:19:24.940 of 2001,

00:19:26.300 just months

00:19:27.060 or weeks before.

00:19:28.900 On April 20th, 2001,

00:19:30.920 a briefing to top

00:19:31.820 Bush administration

00:19:32.580 officials noted

00:19:33.780 that bin Laden 0.99

00:19:34.520 planned multiple operations

00:19:36.320 In May 2001,

00:19:38.520 a report was distributed

00:19:39.420 to Bush administration

00:19:40.340 officials noting

00:19:41.100 that bin Laden 0.99

00:19:41.860 public profile

00:19:42.820 may presage attack.

00:19:44.580 On May 16th, 2001,

00:19:46.360 an intel report

00:19:47.080 mentioned a phone call

00:19:48.100 to an embassy

00:19:48.780 that bin Laden's 0.99

00:19:49.600 supporters were planning

00:19:50.500 an attack inside

00:19:51.680 the United States.

00:19:53.160 On June 12th,

00:19:54.880 a CIA report

00:19:55.680 indicated that

00:19:56.480 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

00:19:57.500 was recruiting people

00:19:58.700 to travel to the U.S.,

00:20:00.440 possibly to aid

00:20:01.460 in terror attacks.

00:20:02.900 On June 22nd

00:20:05.640 of that year,

00:20:06.620 the CIA notified

00:20:07.620 station chiefs

00:20:08.540 about intelligence

00:20:09.440 suggesting an Al-Qaeda

00:20:10.500 suicide bombing

00:20:11.400 in the United States

00:20:12.400 could be on the way.

00:20:14.300 At about the same time,

00:20:15.640 U.S. intelligence

00:20:16.300 issued a terror

00:20:17.280 advisory threat

00:20:18.460 indicating a high

00:20:19.620 probability

00:20:20.300 of near-term

00:20:21.520 spectacular terrorist

00:20:23.140 attacks

00:20:23.640 resulting in

00:20:24.520 numerous casualties.

00:20:26.000 On June 25th,

00:20:27.300 George W. Bush's

00:20:28.080 counterterrorism's

00:20:29.100 star Richard Clark

00:20:29.800 told Condoleezza Rice

00:20:31.460 that six intelligence

00:20:32.960 reports showed

00:20:34.100 Al-Qaeda personnel

00:20:34.980 warning of an

00:20:36.020 impending terror attack.

00:20:37.600 Three days later,

00:20:38.420 he told Rice

00:20:39.240 that something

00:20:39.760 very, very, very,

00:20:41.340 very big

00:20:42.260 was about to happen.

00:20:44.520 On June 30th,

00:20:46.000 top U.S. intel officials

00:20:47.280 were warned

00:20:48.020 bin Laden planning 0.91

00:20:49.480 high-profile attacks

00:20:51.020 of catastrophic proportion.

00:20:53.800 In July,

00:20:54.480 intelligence reports

00:20:55.280 of an impending attack

00:20:56.200 reached a fever pitch

00:20:57.700 that led to the closure

00:20:58.860 of U.S. embassies

00:20:59.880 in the Middle East,

00:21:01.000 none of this

00:21:01.760 apparently got the attention

00:21:03.040 of the White House.

00:21:04.920 Deputy Secretary of Defense

00:21:06.340 Paul Wolfowitz,

00:21:07.560 the man who thought

00:21:08.180 the coal bombing

00:21:08.980 was, quote,

00:21:09.580 stale,

00:21:10.420 questioned the reporting

00:21:11.420 in a conversation

00:21:12.220 with Bush's

00:21:12.800 deputy national security

00:21:13.840 advisor.

00:21:15.120 On July 12th,

00:21:16.260 2001,

00:21:17.560 acting FBI director

00:21:18.800 Thomas Picard

00:21:19.660 opened Attorney General

00:21:21.340 John Ashcroft's

00:21:22.200 intelligence briefing

00:21:22.960 with the latest

00:21:24.080 on the CIA warnings

00:21:25.340 about an Al-Qaeda attack.

00:21:26.880 Ashcroft responded

00:21:29.040 by saying,

00:21:30.220 I don't want you

00:21:30.740 to ever talk to me

00:21:31.880 about Al-Qaeda,

00:21:32.960 about these threats.

00:21:34.160 I don't want to hear

00:21:34.940 about Al-Qaeda anymore.

00:21:37.660 Picard appealed

00:21:38.440 for more counterterrorism

00:21:39.660 enhancements,

00:21:40.280 meaning funding,

00:21:41.680 an appeal

00:21:42.060 the Attorney General

00:21:42.900 denied on September 10th.

00:21:45.980 The United States

00:21:46.460 was attacked

00:21:47.020 the very next day.

00:21:48.080 By lying

00:21:55.620 to the American public

00:21:56.860 serially

00:21:57.600 and aggressively,

00:21:59.080 the CIA,

00:21:59.980 the Bush administration,

00:22:00.980 and the 9-11 Commission

00:22:02.120 created the perfect condition

00:22:03.940 for conspiracy theories

00:22:05.320 to thrive.

00:22:06.260 Consider, for example,

00:22:07.180 the established fact

00:22:08.120 that in the days

00:22:08.740 before the attack,

00:22:09.880 there was a huge surge

00:22:11.060 in put options

00:22:12.500 against airline stocks.

00:22:14.240 Who beside Al-Qaeda 0.53

00:22:15.420 knew the attacks

00:22:16.420 were coming?

00:22:16.900 And who specifically

00:22:18.320 profited from these trades?

00:22:20.340 It seems possible,

00:22:21.480 probably likely,

00:22:22.720 that foreign governments,

00:22:23.920 including supposed allies,

00:22:25.880 knew the plot was coming.

00:22:27.480 Why didn't they warn

00:22:28.380 the United States?

00:22:29.360 And why did U.S. authorities

00:22:30.800 rush to ship

00:22:31.880 all the debris

00:22:33.020 from the attacks abroad

00:22:34.440 almost immediately,

00:22:35.880 making it impossible

00:22:36.780 for engineers

00:22:37.640 to study the crime scene?

00:22:39.600 Those are just

00:22:40.200 some of the questions

00:22:41.000 we will address

00:22:41.660 in the next installment

00:22:42.720 of our series.

00:22:46.900 of terror

00:22:50.340 that

00:22:53.860 by他說

00:22:55.160 forNathan 0.91

00:22:56.240 who puk parts 0.98

00:22:56.420 will be

00:22:57.100 and

00:22:57.740 who

00:22:58.580 likes to see

00:22:59.720 the flick.

00:23:00.400 I see

00:23:00.940 a forum

00:23:01.020 and

00:23:01.600 I see

00:23:01.880 going in the

00:23:02.060 Oder 0.90

00:23:02.220 this

00:23:02.800 or

00:23:03.800 I see

00:23:05.220 going in the

00:23:06.040 soon as you can see

00:23:06.320 in the

00:23:07.500 Sanetti

00:23:08.380 Center.

The Tucker Carlson Show - October 07, 2025

The 9⧸11 Files： They Could Have Stopped It ｜ Ep 3

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