"We Knew 9⧸11 Was Coming" – Whistleblower REVEALS Al-Qaeda Intel IGNORED By Bush Administration
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In this episode, we are joined by former Navy SEAL Team Six Chief Warrant Officer (Ret.) Erich Fromm to discuss the role of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOCOM) in the 9/11 attacks. We discuss the impact of the attacks on the United States and the role played by the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JSDDO) in identifying the al-Qaeda cell phone network.
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when's the first time you guys met uh when i oh so i was i knew they were i was down there several
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yeah well you didn't well let me explain so we were under SOCOM we were using the army and eric
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can explain the army wanted to pull out by the way army did not like the fact we were using
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their technology for our operations so why wouldn't they because well you want to explain that part of
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it is when you're doing data mining you're harvesting everything for intelligence to
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intelligence collectors are very restricted i mean on what we can collect it when the u.s persons
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comes up but when a tool does it it gets everything and so you have to you have to be able to go through
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that and excite all the information about u.s persons this is a throwback from vietnam days and
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pike and church committee 75 that kind of stuff so they wrote these regulations for intel collection
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but they never updated them well again because we were the first data mining operation we weren't
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intelligence i know this is going to sound weird we were doing our effort under title 10 title 10 is
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known as traditional military activities that's why i went to kurt as harm services not intelligence
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to ask for money for the navy well you didn't come to me yes i did i was funding it through no no no
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later later later later yeah later i mean so so and i plussed up their funding wherever they wanted
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so but i didn't need to get right in it wasn't until 9 11 i get these frantic phone calls on my
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cell phone from him from eileen pricer from scott philpot we have to meet you right away but i meet with
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them on 9 11 and they roll out the charts that's the first time i knew that they had identified all
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the al-qaeda cells in advance of 9 11 right right that's when i found out i took it right down to
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the white house to steve hadley i called rice's deputy i said i've got to see you right away
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i said he said we're under attack i said i have to see you i took dan burton with me dan burton was
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chairman of the oversight committee and i took chris shays i rolled out the charts and steve hadley
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deputy national security advisor said to me where did you get these from i said steve i've been telling
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you since you came into office in january that this team was the cutting edge the clinton administration
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ignored it you didn't take any action on it and this is what developed by them and he said to me
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i've got to show this to the man i said the man at the time the president george bush he said i've got
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to show it to them they took the charts and when in subsequent questions of steve hadley he's
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acknowledged that i gave him charts but he says i can't remember what those charts were when i met with
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seymour hirsch seymour hirsch told me those charts are still on the hard drive at the nsa that was
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five years ago so my point i'm trying to make to underscore what kurt is saying we were an operational
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unit that was designed to go do something we weren't an intelligence unit although we were
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intelligence officers we were doing operations it's there it's called j3 versus j2 and that was one of
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the controversial points because we didn't recognize the limits on u.s citizens because we
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didn't have to traditional military activities title 10 is what george washington did during the
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continental war the continental army what they did and so that was one of the controversial points
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but the bottom line is kurt funded the advanced technology that we socom figured out how to get and
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use that technology then used by by eric put together the the series of charts which then became the
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basis for the plans we were using are those the charts those are some of the charts yes those are
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the two primary charts they're they're not they're the charts that i was given by them the original
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charts went to bush in the white house so what conclusion did you guys come up because we still
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haven't talked about it right what conclusion did you come up with here's what happened here's the
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best example read this book this is not them forget them this is this is the book about our one of
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our top military generals who was on horseback he had like 9 000 soldiers under his command
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and this book keith labor i'd never met general lambert i don't but i may be admitted this book
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was a new york times bestseller and a movie on page 27 he's asked what were your thoughts when 9-11
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happened and general lambert says in his own words you can read it within seconds i knew who had done
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the attack i knew it involved muhammad adha because i had been briefed on a top secret army
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intelligence program that's able danger none of that's in the 9-11 commission report and that proves
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that what they were doing identified muhammad adha it basically calls everyone else a liar
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and because general lambert says it in his book that he knew within seconds muhammad adha was involved
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the 9-11 by the way free said afterwards that if he'd had the information we could have prevented 9-11
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from happening by the way he was one of the individuals that the ig the dod ig refused to
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interview why you're you're you're a guy that has to make investments if you have someone who's a
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principal actor in a company uh who has a major role wouldn't you go and interview them before uh anything
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else to figure out what's going on he was lambert was the chief of operations and they refused they
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dod ig during the time that he asked them to investigate our claims they refused to talk to
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lambert to this day to this day so so on the evening of 9-11 we were all on the phone with each other
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because we knew it was coming we had deep conversations the entire time we were running
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this operation that we knew something was coming so 9-11 happens we're all talking to each other
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and the watch phrase was so it begins we knew this was coming out and that was you know you knew this
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was coming we knew it was coming we were trying to you knew 9-11 was gonna we knew something we knew
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something was coming they were coming offensively and they had already established a deep footprint
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what were some of the things that you guys were speculating that could take place well was it 9-11
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you weren't you wouldn't sit there and say guys someone's about to attack world trade center was that
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it or was it no someone's gonna attack white house pentagon did you guys have the 5-10 targets
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that you thought they're gonna attack we knew where the cells were at right we knew where they
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physically were hanging out and where were those cells and uh they had different clusters one was
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new york one was maryland and the other one was florida as i recall and they were all clustered
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we had individuals linked to the al-qaeda leadership the top three new jersey new jersey new york new jersey
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