Valuetainment - May 14, 2025


"We Knew 9⧸11 Was Coming" – Whistleblower REVEALS Al-Qaeda Intel IGNORED By Bush Administration


Episode Stats

Length

6 minutes

Words per Minute

198.92609

Word Count

1,309

Sentence Count

4

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

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.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 when's the first time you guys met uh when i oh so i was i knew they were i was down there several
00:00:05.780 yeah well you didn't well let me explain so we were under SOCOM we were using the army and eric
00:00:12.320 can explain the army wanted to pull out by the way army did not like the fact we were using
00:00:16.800 their technology for our operations so why wouldn't they because well you want to explain that part of
00:00:25.020 it is when you're doing data mining you're harvesting everything for intelligence to
00:00:30.680 intelligence collectors are very restricted i mean on what we can collect it when the u.s persons
00:00:36.540 comes up but when a tool does it it gets everything and so you have to you have to be able to go through
00:00:43.120 that and excite all the information about u.s persons this is a throwback from vietnam days and
00:00:49.080 pike and church committee 75 that kind of stuff so they wrote these regulations for intel collection
00:00:54.580 but they never updated them well again because we were the first data mining operation we weren't
00:01:01.100 intelligence i know this is going to sound weird we were doing our effort under title 10 title 10 is
00:01:07.780 known as traditional military activities that's why i went to kurt as harm services not intelligence
00:01:13.560 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
00:01:18.700 later later later later yeah later i mean so so and i plussed up their funding wherever they wanted
00:01:24.260 so but i didn't need to get right in it wasn't until 9 11 i get these frantic phone calls on my
00:01:29.000 cell phone from him from eileen pricer from scott philpot we have to meet you right away but i meet with
00:01:35.120 them on 9 11 and they roll out the charts that's the first time i knew that they had identified all
00:01:40.400 the al-qaeda cells in advance of 9 11 right right that's when i found out i took it right down to
00:01:45.320 the white house to steve hadley i called rice's deputy i said i've got to see you right away
00:01:49.760 i said he said we're under attack i said i have to see you i took dan burton with me dan burton was
00:01:55.040 chairman of the oversight committee and i took chris shays i rolled out the charts and steve hadley
00:01:59.720 deputy national security advisor said to me where did you get these from i said steve i've been telling
00:02:03.620 you since you came into office in january that this team was the cutting edge the clinton administration
00:02:09.480 ignored it you didn't take any action on it and this is what developed by them and he said to me
00:02:14.780 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
00:02:21.760 to show it to them they took the charts and when in subsequent questions of steve hadley he's
00:02:27.420 acknowledged that i gave him charts but he says i can't remember what those charts were when i met with
00:02:32.380 seymour hirsch seymour hirsch told me those charts are still on the hard drive at the nsa that was
00:02:38.460 five years ago so my point i'm trying to make to underscore what kurt is saying we were an operational
00:02:46.780 unit that was designed to go do something we weren't an intelligence unit although we were
00:02:51.980 intelligence officers we were doing operations it's there it's called j3 versus j2 and that was one of
00:02:58.680 the controversial points because we didn't recognize the limits on u.s citizens because we
00:03:03.740 didn't have to traditional military activities title 10 is what george washington did during the
00:03:08.960 continental war the continental army what they did and so that was one of the controversial points
00:03:13.500 but the bottom line is kurt funded the advanced technology that we socom figured out how to get and
00:03:20.640 use that technology then used by by eric put together the the series of charts which then became the
00:03:28.200 basis for the plans we were using are those the charts those are some of the charts yes those are
00:03:35.100 the two primary charts they're they're not they're the charts that i was given by them the original
00:03:40.800 charts went to bush in the white house so what conclusion did you guys come up because we still
00:03:44.800 haven't talked about it right what conclusion did you come up with here's what happened here's the
00:03:49.080 best example read this book this is not them forget them this is this is the book about our one of
00:03:55.520 our top military generals who was on horseback he had like 9 000 soldiers under his command
00:04:00.980 and this book keith labor i'd never met general lambert i don't but i may be admitted this book
00:04:05.920 was a new york times bestseller and a movie on page 27 he's asked what were your thoughts when 9-11
00:04:11.660 happened and general lambert says in his own words you can read it within seconds i knew who had done
00:04:17.500 the attack i knew it involved muhammad adha because i had been briefed on a top secret army
00:04:22.820 intelligence program that's able danger none of that's in the 9-11 commission report and that proves
00:04:28.800 that what they were doing identified muhammad adha it basically calls everyone else a liar
00:04:35.500 and because general lambert says it in his book that he knew within seconds muhammad adha was involved
00:04:42.200 the 9-11 by the way free said afterwards that if he'd had the information we could have prevented 9-11
00:04:47.620 from happening by the way he was one of the individuals that the ig the dod ig refused to
00:04:53.320 interview why you're you're you're a guy that has to make investments if you have someone who's a
00:04:59.960 principal actor in a company uh who has a major role wouldn't you go and interview them before uh anything
00:05:07.780 else to figure out what's going on he was lambert was the chief of operations and they refused they
00:05:13.280 dod ig during the time that he asked them to investigate our claims they refused to talk to
00:05:18.020 lambert to this day to this day so so on the evening of 9-11 we were all on the phone with each other
00:05:24.720 because we knew it was coming we had deep conversations the entire time we were running
00:05:28.740 this operation that we knew something was coming so 9-11 happens we're all talking to each other
00:05:33.820 and the watch phrase was so it begins we knew this was coming out and that was you know you knew this
00:05:40.880 was coming we knew it was coming we were trying to you knew 9-11 was gonna we knew something we knew
00:05:47.140 something was coming they were coming offensively and they had already established a deep footprint
00:05:51.360 what were some of the things that you guys were speculating that could take place well was it 9-11
00:05:56.720 you weren't you wouldn't sit there and say guys someone's about to attack world trade center was that
00:06:01.600 it or was it no someone's gonna attack white house pentagon did you guys have the 5-10 targets
00:06:06.120 that you thought they're gonna attack we knew where the cells were at right we knew where they
00:06:10.060 physically were hanging out and where were those cells and uh they had different clusters one was
00:06:15.640 new york one was maryland and the other one was florida as i recall and they were all clustered
00:06:20.000 we had individuals linked to the al-qaeda leadership the top three new jersey new jersey new york new jersey
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