1 00:00:00,34 --> 00:00:05,35 The end. 2 00:00:14,85 --> 00:00:18,39 The percent of the questions about I answered was there the thanks 3 00:00:18,40 --> 00:00:22,43 a maiden thirty percent got touched upon seven percent didn't the stuff that's 4 00:00:22,44 --> 00:00:27,97 included the ISA stuff that they have too much choice in recording because they 5 00:00:27,98 --> 00:00:34,46 knew what we know you can do an investigation and if you don't really want to 6 00:00:34,47 --> 00:00:38,88 research an area you just don't look at it if you don't me ask them all the 7 00:00:38,89 --> 00:00:43,54 questions or you don't let them tell you the whole story. You know then you could 8 00:00:43,55 --> 00:00:43,75 write 9 00:00:43,76 --> 00:00:52,69 a report based on half truths. Am. Anyway 10 00:00:52,70 --> 00:00:56,66 what is going to join us I think just how the people who lost loved ones at nine 11 00:00:56,67 --> 00:01:00,87 eleven like the families of guys who were lost in Vietnam they just can't get over 12 00:01:00,88 --> 00:01:06,23 it sometimes people become crusaders because they they can't deal with reality the 13 00:01:06,24 --> 00:01:11,20 families I think have to understand that it's virtually impossible to conceive of 14 00:01:11,21 --> 00:01:16,12 any way in which these attacks could have been stopped even had the best things 15 00:01:16,13 --> 00:01:21,33 happened on nine eleven the media started out by doing its job and somehow got 16 00:01:21,34 --> 00:01:27,91 waylaid and stopped doing its job that began reporting solely on the administration 17 00:01:27,92 --> 00:01:33,35 and the government's activities. The news media while yielding a fact here 18 00:01:33,39 --> 00:01:39,44 a fact there failed again and again to connect the dots the one thing that I 19 00:01:39,70 --> 00:01:44,98 personally was hoping for was another word working Bernstein with regard to nine 20 00:01:44,99 --> 00:01:51,97 eleven. Someone anyone that was willing to put their 21 00:01:51,98 --> 00:01:56,05 team and to the. Families discovered 22 00:01:56,06 --> 00:02:02,99 a website created by independent investigator Paul Thompson. His complete nine 23 00:02:03,00 --> 00:02:08,09 eleven timeline to minutely the internet research stitches together information 24 00:02:08,10 --> 00:02:09,49 from over seven dollars 25 00:02:09,50 --> 00:02:16,30 a mainstream news story. It was all our behinds our ears OK 26 00:02:16,31 --> 00:02:22,34 but laid out beautifully on line and he has the ability to connect the dots he 27 00:02:22,35 --> 00:02:27,55 would put time up there and then he would back it up with mainstream media sources 28 00:02:27,56 --> 00:02:32,44 so you could understand why they were discrepancies in the timeline Flight ninety 29 00:02:32,45 --> 00:02:33,76 three crashed at ten 30 00:02:33,77 --> 00:02:37,13 o three but the seismic data says Tennessee and then he'd have 31 00:02:37,14 --> 00:02:41,05 a link so you can see the side you only she couldn't tell this is 32 00:02:41,06 --> 00:02:48,03 a reporter this. Information covertly this truth be told. Each 33 00:02:48,04 --> 00:02:52,60 year of the many. Years. Nation of one me just 34 00:02:52,61 --> 00:02:59,01 a little church your. Conscience works in game mainstream media 35 00:02:59,05 --> 00:03:05,90 exposure. Timeline is based on public documentation what we know what the 36 00:03:05,91 --> 00:03:11,47 world know about nine eleven. Changed which way it was among the first to bring 37 00:03:11,48 --> 00:03:15,96 attention to Paul Thompson's timeline you know has to be almost taken more 38 00:03:15,97 --> 00:03:22,80 seriously. Than nine eleven because I mean it's open there's nothing secret 39 00:03:22,81 --> 00:03:28,88 here. This I began researching and it is this curious phenomenon which is that 40 00:03:29,21 --> 00:03:29,39 there's 41 00:03:29,40 --> 00:03:33,01 a lot of explosive information that has come out of the mainstream press but it 42 00:03:33,02 --> 00:03:34,52 comes out buried as 43 00:03:34,53 --> 00:03:41,32 a casual observer of the news I've never noticed any of this stuff. You might find 44 00:03:41,55 --> 00:03:43,51 one important bit of information and say 45 00:03:43,52 --> 00:03:46,59 a newspaper story and another bit of information on 46 00:03:46,60 --> 00:03:52,82 a news show you know the. Right you know what we did you start to put all those 47 00:03:52,83 --> 00:03:56,66 rather obscure stories together you end up with an almost completely different 48 00:03:56,67 --> 00:04:02,38 narrative that we're just about any area relating to nine eleven the story is quite 49 00:04:02,39 --> 00:04:08,86 different to dig deeper here. And clearly. 50 00:04:10,37 --> 00:04:14,85 Something yesterday took place in New York that was not foreseen that we had no 51 00:04:14,86 --> 00:04:19,49 specific specific information about like most American the Mr Thompson initially 52 00:04:19,50 --> 00:04:23,16 didn't question the Bush administration's first statements about the attacks 53 00:04:24,03 --> 00:04:29,43 ministration consistently maintain that there were no warnings or specific threats 54 00:04:29,47 --> 00:04:29,58 of 55 00:04:29,59 --> 00:04:35,04 a threat no specific threat involving really domestic operation involving what happened 56 00:04:35,05 --> 00:04:41,59 obviously the cities airliner and so forth there were no warning signs and I'm 57 00:04:41,60 --> 00:04:47,44 aware of that would indicate this type of operation in the country I first became 58 00:04:47,45 --> 00:04:52,58 interested in nine eleven around mid two thousand and two right around the time 59 00:04:52,59 --> 00:04:56,32 that President Bush is now famous August sixth P.T.B. 60 00:04:56,73 --> 00:05:01,85 Became leaked to the press President Bush was told in August that Osama bin Laden 61 00:05:02,15 --> 00:05:05,05 might be planning an attack involving the hijacking of U.S. 62 00:05:05,06 --> 00:05:11,96 Aircraft. That it was 63 00:05:11,97 --> 00:05:15,66 a revelation that the White House had no intention of making public an official 64 00:05:15,67 --> 00:05:20,46 spent the entire day in full damage control I don't think anybody could have 65 00:05:20,47 --> 00:05:23,63 predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile 66 00:05:23,64 --> 00:05:25,11 a hijacked airplane as 67 00:05:25,12 --> 00:05:28,07 a missile the way our government at least and I don't think the prior government 68 00:05:28,08 --> 00:05:31,59 could envision flying airplanes into buildings. On such 69 00:05:31,60 --> 00:05:38,51 a massive scale. His interest piqued Thompson began to search for new stories 70 00:05:38,52 --> 00:05:42,44 that might help him determine exactly where the White House had been of all kind 71 00:05:42,45 --> 00:05:48,94 his desire to use planes as weapons. He was quickly able to compile 72 00:05:48,95 --> 00:05:54,12 a wealth of examples that any journalist should have been able to find one of the 73 00:05:54,13 --> 00:05:58,87 earliest dates back to the one nine hundred ninety find it was code named Operation 74 00:05:58,88 --> 00:06:03,05 Bojinka a terrorist plot to use commercial planes to attack U.S. 75 00:06:03,06 --> 00:06:07,71 Targets Ramzi Yousef the bomb maker responsible for the one nine hundred ninety 76 00:06:07,72 --> 00:06:13,58 three Trade Center bombing the Philippines where police discovered his bomb factory 77 00:06:14,03 --> 00:06:16,53 inside again but it was 78 00:06:16,54 --> 00:06:22,65 a complex was arrested and spoke with chilling plot. Operational chink of 79 00:06:22,88 --> 00:06:27,60 a plan to blow up multiple airliners over the Pacific was heavily reported but 80 00:06:27,61 --> 00:06:31,81 Thompson noted most journalists failed to mention the second aspect of the plot 81 00:06:32,58 --> 00:06:33,46 only C.N.N. 82 00:06:33,47 --> 00:06:38,33 International dug deeper into this story in confidential documents from the 83 00:06:38,34 --> 00:06:40,06 Philippines a team by C.N.N. 84 00:06:40,22 --> 00:06:45,47 The plan it was clear he will void any American commercial aircraft control its 85 00:06:45,48 --> 00:06:51,42 cockpit and died at the CIA headquarters other buildings targeted the Pentagon and 86 00:06:51,43 --> 00:06:54,25 the World Trade Center and the F.B.I. 87 00:06:54,29 --> 00:06:58,69 Using the Philippine documents did check the for flight schools named there but 88 00:06:58,70 --> 00:07:05,36 found no evidence of any other plan terror attacks. Only 89 00:07:05,37 --> 00:07:07,87 N.B.C. Reported a stunning confession by 90 00:07:07,88 --> 00:07:13,37 a man allegedly trained by Been lot it was over a year before nine eleven 91 00:07:13,68 --> 00:07:16,40 a Pakistani British man told the F.B.I. 92 00:07:16,41 --> 00:07:20,08 An incredible tale that he had been trained by followers of 93 00:07:20,09 --> 00:07:25,46 a sama Bin Ladin the hijacking airplanes and he can fast he was now in America to 94 00:07:25,47 --> 00:07:28,96 carry out an attack Khan was recruited into 95 00:07:28,97 --> 00:07:33,87 a kind of British mosque then flown to Lahore Pakistan for a hijack training and 96 00:07:33,88 --> 00:07:39,32 a mock seven. Sixty seven before being sent to America where it was told he would 97 00:07:39,33 --> 00:07:41,11 hijack a plane from J.F.K. 98 00:07:41,42 --> 00:07:42,53 And into 99 00:07:42,54 --> 00:07:49,14 a building. I told him before the nine eleven about more than 100 00:07:49,15 --> 00:07:55,32 a year the Hijacking America and America headline calling claims he got cold feet 101 00:07:55,65 --> 00:08:01,02 instead of meeting his contacts he slipped away gambled away all his money and in 102 00:08:01,03 --> 00:08:07,11 fear turned himself in and can that be but this I know about his hijacking 103 00:08:07,12 --> 00:08:08,95 something going on N.B.C. 104 00:08:08,96 --> 00:08:14,10 News has learned Khan was not one but two polygraphs a former F.B.I. 105 00:08:14,11 --> 00:08:19,54 Official says no work Agent down that word came from headquarters while returning 106 00:08:19,55 --> 00:08:24,49 to London and forget about it access to this exclusive footage from N.B.C. 107 00:08:24,82 --> 00:08:31,66 Is now restricted. July two thousand and one according to sixty Minutes 108 00:08:31,99 --> 00:08:33,61 Egypt's an intelligence received 109 00:08:33,62 --> 00:08:37,78 a report that twenty Hokkaido had slipped into the US and four of them 110 00:08:38,02 --> 00:08:44,77 a trained on systems. That are the Egyptian pilots of planes didn't sound terribly 111 00:08:44,78 --> 00:08:49,75 alarming but they passed on the message to the CIA anyway fully expecting 112 00:08:49,84 --> 00:08:56,39 Washington to request for information requests never pay and sign Thompson 113 00:08:56,40 --> 00:09:01,17 compiled stories about fourteen different missions that are in the US prior to nine 114 00:09:01,18 --> 00:09:05,57 eleven we could have one story that comes out on the front page and another story 115 00:09:05,58 --> 00:09:10,40 that comes out on page B twelve but what I found is that many times the story that 116 00:09:10,41 --> 00:09:14,20 comes out on B twelve is more important than the story that comes out on the front 117 00:09:14,21 --> 00:09:20,85 page. March the talian intelligence gave information to the US based on their 118 00:09:20,86 --> 00:09:26,29 wiretap of an all kind of cell in the line the L A Times and The Washington Post so 119 00:09:26,30 --> 00:09:30,20 the wiretaps warrant of brothers going to the United States and 120 00:09:30,21 --> 00:09:37,08 a massive strike involving aircrafts. August according to Moroccan 121 00:09:37,09 --> 00:09:41,55 and French newspapers an intelligence agent reported that bin Laden's men were 122 00:09:41,56 --> 00:09:46,17 preparing large scale operations in New York in the summer or fall of two thousand 123 00:09:46,18 --> 00:09:49,19 and one agent was then called to the U.S. 124 00:09:49,48 --> 00:09:55,94 To report this information directly. August 125 00:09:56,67 --> 00:10:01,24 Britain warned three times of an al Qaeda attack in the US The final warning 126 00:10:01,25 --> 00:10:06,18 specifying multiple airplane hijackings According to Britain's Sunday Herald The 127 00:10:06,19 --> 00:10:08,18 warning was passed on to President Bush 128 00:10:08,25 --> 00:10:15,23 a short time later. It's unknown how many 129 00:10:15,24 --> 00:10:19,33 of these warnings reported but buried in back pages reached the White House through 130 00:10:19,97 --> 00:10:24,58 channels but one threat assessment is well known to have reached President Bush 131 00:10:24,59 --> 00:10:29,12 directly it was known as the presidential daily briefing or P.T.B. 132 00:10:29,63 --> 00:10:36,19 Of August sixth. The Bush administration kept it from the public for months until 133 00:10:36,20 --> 00:10:38,07 it was revealed in part by the C.B.S. 134 00:10:38,08 --> 00:10:43,34 News in May two thousand and two putting the White House on the defensive all of 135 00:10:43,35 --> 00:10:47,54 this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking you take 136 00:10:47,55 --> 00:10:52,89 a plane people were worried they might blow some blow one up on the I'd like to ask 137 00:10:52,90 --> 00:10:55,73 you about the August sixth P.V.P. 138 00:10:55,74 --> 00:11:00,69 Or you mentioned two years later President Bush responded to questions about what 139 00:11:00,70 --> 00:11:07,53 led him to request the August sixth briefing government. And I asked for 140 00:11:07,54 --> 00:11:12,25 the briefing. And the reason I did is because there had been 141 00:11:12,26 --> 00:11:19,21 a lot of threat. Intelligence from overseas and 142 00:11:19,22 --> 00:11:24,86 so on and that part of it had to do with the genoa G eight conference that I was 143 00:11:24,87 --> 00:11:29,43 going to attend eight of the world's most powerful leaders gathered here to discuss 144 00:11:29,54 --> 00:11:34,83 global problems and yes present fun and means the having to keep the world at bay 145 00:11:35,43 --> 00:11:38,15 just prior to the G eight summit C.N.N. 146 00:11:38,16 --> 00:11:42,48 Dot com reported the head of Russia's federal bodyguard service has warned of 147 00:11:42,49 --> 00:11:48,75 a plot by terrorist Osama bin Laden to assassinate George W. Bush. The L.A. 148 00:11:48,76 --> 00:11:49,97 Times reported U.S. 149 00:11:49,98 --> 00:11:51,01 Officials were warned of 150 00:11:51,02 --> 00:11:56,08 a threat posed from the air by commercial airliners it's terrorists as well as 151 00:11:56,09 --> 00:12:02,31 protesters the Italian government fears so. We're on standby at the airport 152 00:12:03,08 --> 00:12:09,63 Congolese So Rice was present there President Bush Ari Fleischer Karl 153 00:12:09,64 --> 00:12:15,48 Rove President Bush's own family they were going to sleep on the boat so that 154 00:12:15,67 --> 00:12:16,83 a plane couldn't go into 155 00:12:16,84 --> 00:12:21,58 a bell that this place in result will be home for three days of the G eight leaders 156 00:12:21,65 --> 00:12:28,64 necessary for their safety. If the August sixth P.T.B. 157 00:12:28,65 --> 00:12:29,47 Was prompted by 158 00:12:29,48 --> 00:12:35,88 a threat from the air in Genoa. Clearly President Bush his spokesperson Ari 159 00:12:35,89 --> 00:12:40,50 Fleischer and his National Security Adviser Condi Rice were more than aware of the 160 00:12:40,51 --> 00:12:47,26 threat of planes as weapons but the news media appeared to mislead. Give 161 00:12:47,27 --> 00:12:53,87 information about simultaneous hijackings. No specific threat 162 00:12:53,99 --> 00:13:00,65 planes being used as weapons. I don't think anybody could have predicted 163 00:13:01,11 --> 00:13:05,71 specific targets including mentions the Pentagon the World Trade Center. 164 00:13:09,79 --> 00:13:12,78 Now they are good places and I don't think the prior government could envision 165 00:13:12,79 --> 00:13:14,30 flying airplanes into buildings. 166 00:13:36,37 --> 00:13:43,05 Dr Rice you please rise raise your right. We 167 00:13:43,06 --> 00:13:49,98 swear or affirm tell the truth whole truth and nothing but the truth. In April 168 00:13:49,99 --> 00:13:53,90 two thousand and four public pressure finally forced the White House to allow Dr 169 00:13:53,91 --> 00:13:58,50 Rice to testify before the nine eleven Commission to answer questions about the 170 00:13:58,51 --> 00:13:59,18 P.T.B. 171 00:13:59,32 --> 00:14:06,20 And the nature of warnings given ministration. The threat reporting that we 172 00:14:06,21 --> 00:14:09,98 received in the spring and summer of two thousand and one was not specific as to 173 00:14:09,99 --> 00:14:15,56 time nor place nor manner of attack almost all of the reports focused on al Qaeda 174 00:14:15,57 --> 00:14:20,38 activities outside the United States this set in stark contrast to the warnings 175 00:14:20,39 --> 00:14:25,94 well documented in Thompson's timeline what the August sixth P.T.B. 176 00:14:25,98 --> 00:14:30,88 Said and perhaps I should read it to you we would be happy to have it the 177 00:14:30,89 --> 00:14:36,16 classified info when he was testifying one bend in nice was really trying to get 178 00:14:36,17 --> 00:14:41,62 into the nitty gritty did you tell the president at any time prior to August sixth 179 00:14:41,80 --> 00:14:48,60 of the existence of al-Qaeda cells in the United States. But first let me just make 180 00:14:48,61 --> 00:14:51,57 certain if you could just answer that all or should I only have 181 00:14:51,58 --> 00:14:54,86 a very I understand Commissioner but I did you get over impression that I also 182 00:14:54,87 --> 00:14:58,22 addressed. There was like 183 00:14:58,23 --> 00:15:02,66 a trial you can grill these people too you got the answer I really don't remember 184 00:15:03,34 --> 00:15:07,19 Commissioner whether I discussed this with the president let me move on 185 00:15:07,20 --> 00:15:14,12 a dime there were no specifics what organs six what six members say and then she 186 00:15:14,13 --> 00:15:19,90 would start going off it was historical information based on old reporting there 187 00:15:19,91 --> 00:15:24,81 was no new threat information and it did not in fact warn of any coming attacks 188 00:15:24,82 --> 00:15:29,39 inside the United States and what was the title of the memo. I believe the title 189 00:15:29,40 --> 00:15:34,84 was Finland Determined to Attack Inside the United States and now the. 190 00:15:38,38 --> 00:15:42,19 Two weeks later the White House finally declassified the P.T.B. 191 00:15:42,95 --> 00:15:44,69 There's lots of examples where it's 192 00:15:44,70 --> 00:15:49,48 a domestic threat in modern told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington you 193 00:15:49,49 --> 00:15:53,09 know bin Laden was planning to exploit the operatives access to use to the U.S. 194 00:15:53,10 --> 00:15:57,78 To mount a terrorist strike abodes Abida with planning his own U.S. Attack us F.B.I. 195 00:15:57,79 --> 00:16:02,11 Information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this 196 00:16:02,12 --> 00:16:06,56 country consistent with preparations for hijackings are other types of attacks 197 00:16:06,84 --> 00:16:11,56 including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York that's present tense 198 00:16:11,57 --> 00:16:16,72 and domestic Ari Fleischer came out right after September eleventh and said there 199 00:16:16,76 --> 00:16:23,32 were no warnings I watched him tell me there were no warnings OK I want to know 200 00:16:23,33 --> 00:16:29,70 why nobody has gone back and said What did he mean Howard Dean recently seemed to 201 00:16:29,71 --> 00:16:35,45 muse all out whether you had advance knowledge of nine eleven yeah. OK there's time 202 00:16:35,46 --> 00:16:42,30 for politics. And. Time for 203 00:16:42,31 --> 00:16:48,75 politics and. Some sort of 204 00:16:48,76 --> 00:16:55,27 situation. The press has reported this one that one 205 00:16:56,27 --> 00:17:00,78 could never really put it all together is. That how many different wordings did you 206 00:17:00,79 --> 00:17:05,34 get how many different ways was this information coming at you and why wasn't 207 00:17:05,35 --> 00:17:12,34 anything done about all these warnings. Wright is the attorney general of 208 00:17:12,35 --> 00:17:17,99 the United States doing his travel by specially chartered jet the Justice 209 00:17:17,100 --> 00:17:21,72 Department cited what it called a threat assessment by the F.B.I. 210 00:17:22,07 --> 00:17:26,34 And said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet to the remains. 211 00:17:29,05 --> 00:17:32,83 And on the night before the attacks the president may have slept more soundly 212 00:17:33,36 --> 00:17:36,63 knowing surface to air missiles were placed on the roof of the service sort of 213 00:17:36,64 --> 00:17:39,25 Florida resort where he was staying not 214 00:17:39,26 --> 00:17:46,03 a typical security procedure at the time. It seemed night. 215 00:17:47,06 --> 00:17:52,03 Particularly urgent warning may have been received causing some top Pentagon brass 216 00:17:52,04 --> 00:17:58,09 to cancel their scheduled flights the morning of nine eleven and. Why that same 217 00:17:58,10 --> 00:18:02,14 information was not available to the two hundred sixty six people who died aboard 218 00:18:02,15 --> 00:18:04,73 the four hijacked aircraft may become 219 00:18:04,74 --> 00:18:11,54 a hot topic on the Hill. It never did. We took an oath not to talk 220 00:18:11,55 --> 00:18:15,31 about their campaign and I think correctly so did increase the capacity of that 221 00:18:15,32 --> 00:18:19,13 commission's report to be heard by the People's Congress now to be on the campaign 222 00:18:19,14 --> 00:18:23,48 for the promise I had to keep this out campaign is over Mr President you are in the 223 00:18:23,49 --> 00:18:27,76 United States you are one by the CIA you know in July they were inside the United 224 00:18:27,77 --> 00:18:31,43 States you were told again by briefing officers in August that it was up to the 225 00:18:31,44 --> 00:18:34,98 dire threat didn't do anything that hard enough border security didn't do anything 226 00:18:34,99 --> 00:18:38,88 to harden airports or security didn't do anything to engage local law enforcement 227 00:18:38,89 --> 00:18:42,68 didn't do anything to round up INS and consular office and say we have to shut this 228 00:18:42,69 --> 00:18:49,51 down and didn't warn the American people. What did you do nothing so far as we can 229 00:18:49,52 --> 00:18:49,68 see. 230 00:19:06,31 --> 00:19:12,72 The government first said there were no want to use their work. Then the White 231 00:19:12,73 --> 00:19:19,67 House and the warnings were not specific as to whether when. The nine eleven 232 00:19:19,68 --> 00:19:26,38 families and the time line connected the dots with. There were many warnings 233 00:19:26,62 --> 00:19:31,28 most were detailed somewhere urgent and yet little or no difference of action was 234 00:19:31,29 --> 00:19:37,99 taken by responsible officials except for their own personal protection. The public 235 00:19:38,00 --> 00:19:41,16 was better informed in the summer of two thousand and one lives would have been 236 00:19:41,17 --> 00:19:45,27 saved maybe they wouldn't been prevented lives would have been saved my husband was 237 00:19:45,28 --> 00:19:47,46 in Tower to if he knew that it was 238 00:19:47,47 --> 00:19:51,28 a terrorist attack he would've stayed in the building when they were told that the 239 00:19:51,29 --> 00:19:55,47 building was secure and. They would have. 240 00:19:58,42 --> 00:20:05,18 Thought that the first. Plane would have thought differently. But 241 00:20:05,41 --> 00:20:07,54 again we were given information. 242 00:20:13,23 --> 00:20:18,05 Even as the first tower burned on every channel that morning no one on the federal 243 00:20:18,06 --> 00:20:22,99 level who had received warning all summer cold New York to order an evacuation of 244 00:20:23,00 --> 00:20:29,44 tower to. No one ordered fighters to perform anytime we defensive action against 245 00:20:29,45 --> 00:20:36,43 remaining hijacked planes. No one responded adequately to the crisis. 246 00:20:41,36 --> 00:20:48,14 Have to be right one hundred percent of the time. To get lucky. This 247 00:20:48,15 --> 00:20:53,92 explanation for the devastating attack. Of September eleventh simple on its face is 248 00:20:53,93 --> 00:20:59,47 wrong in its value because the nine eleven terrorists were not just lucky ones they 249 00:20:59,48 --> 00:21:05,68 were lucky over and over again when you have this repeated pattern of broken 250 00:21:05,69 --> 00:21:12,50 protocols broken laws broken communication one cannot still call that. If at some 251 00:21:12,62 --> 00:21:17,45 point we don't look to hold the individuals accountable for not doing their jobs 252 00:21:17,93 --> 00:21:23,24 properly then how can we ever expect the terrorists to not get lucky again. 253 00:21:25,40 --> 00:21:26,46 Thank. 254 00:21:32,52 --> 00:21:34,17 The president of the United States. 255 00:21:47,69 --> 00:21:53,27 On September the eleventh. Anime's of freedom committed an act of war against our 256 00:21:53,28 --> 00:21:58,89 country and tonight the United States of America makes the following demands on the 257 00:21:58,90 --> 00:22:04,28 Taliban delivered to United States authorities all the leaders of al Qaeda who hide 258 00:22:04,29 --> 00:22:08,87 in your land Taliban must act and act immediately they will hand over the 259 00:22:08,88 --> 00:22:12,77 terrorists. Where they will share in their fate. 260 00:22:22,63 --> 00:22:28,74 We have a live picture that we're showing from. Our forces our hour and 261 00:22:28,75 --> 00:22:35,67 a trading Afghanistan. Has been taken to the house and what about 262 00:22:35,68 --> 00:22:40,64 some of been Lott's top lieutenants was killed one of the infamous paid money and 263 00:22:41,37 --> 00:22:47,94 fighters with the American bought stock. Brokers military activity the 264 00:22:48,33 --> 00:22:53,36 White House despite the crushing defeat of al Qaeda forces a Tora Bora U.S. 265 00:22:53,37 --> 00:22:58,74 Military officials still don't know where to find Osama bin Laden this is Tora Bora 266 00:22:58,91 --> 00:23:03,84 the ripping the rest of the fighters or at in the caves of Tora Bora 267 00:23:04,67 --> 00:23:10,15 a terrorist shelter about just to hold. The distinguished interim leader of 268 00:23:10,16 --> 00:23:13,53 a liberated Afghanistan chairman Hammad Karzai. 269 00:23:23,23 --> 00:23:28,62 America's apparently clear military victory in Afghanistan was not so clear cut. 270 00:23:32,23 --> 00:23:35,29 The war ended very quickly but in the end the U.S. 271 00:23:35,30 --> 00:23:40,77 Was only able to capture or kill one major figure and no Taliban figures you know 272 00:23:40,78 --> 00:23:44,93 the fact is right now today we don't have any high ranking Taliban or al Qaeda but 273 00:23:44,94 --> 00:23:49,77 we haven't really captured anybody wanted to on the fringe. His understanding of 274 00:23:49,78 --> 00:23:55,36 the. From its actions before nine eleven now fundamentally changed Thompson decided 275 00:23:55,37 --> 00:23:55,69 to take 276 00:23:55,70 --> 00:24:00,55 a similar look into what happened in Afghanistan. The pressed never looked very 277 00:24:00,56 --> 00:24:05,32 closely at how so many of these leaders were able to escape every few pieced 278 00:24:05,33 --> 00:24:05,70 together 279 00:24:05,71 --> 00:24:16,62 a number of different music yes you can begin to understand the story. Early 280 00:24:16,63 --> 00:24:22,36 November the London Times reported gun Laden's closest advisers all escaped in 281 00:24:22,37 --> 00:24:28,73 a late night convoy from the Afghan capital of Kabul. And eyewitness reported we 282 00:24:28,74 --> 00:24:33,26 don't understand how they weren't all killed the night before because they came in 283 00:24:33,27 --> 00:24:34,47 a convoy of at least 284 00:24:34,48 --> 00:24:39,21 a thousand cars and trucks it must have been easy for American pilots to see that 285 00:24:39,22 --> 00:24:46,17 lights. By the tenth bin Laden had joined the convoy in 286 00:24:46,18 --> 00:24:51,27 Jalalabad an intelligence official told Knight Ridder newspapers it was obvious 287 00:24:51,28 --> 00:24:55,87 that this area was to be the base for an exodus to Pakistan we were amazed that 288 00:24:55,88 --> 00:25:02,58 nothing was done to prepare for. On November fourteenth 289 00:25:02,87 --> 00:25:07,38 the Northern Alliance captured Jalalabad that night one thousand fighters in 290 00:25:07,39 --> 00:25:12,05 a convoy of several hundred vehicles escaped again this time with Been watch 291 00:25:12,68 --> 00:25:16,66 driving hours to the fortress in Tora Bora. The U.S. 292 00:25:16,67 --> 00:25:21,06 Bombed the nearby Jalalabad airport but apparently did not attack the convoy. 293 00:25:24,23 --> 00:25:29,41 Of Ember fifteenth at the cave complexes of Tora Bora an estimated sixteen hundred 294 00:25:29,66 --> 00:25:34,83 of bin Laden's fighters are now surrounded the most important battle the war begins 295 00:25:34,83 --> 00:25:39,67 . As warplanes are keeping a close eye on mountain passes U.S. 296 00:25:39,68 --> 00:25:43,85 Special Forces are working with Pakistani troops on the border to watch possible 297 00:25:43,86 --> 00:25:48,48 escape routes while there were two main escape routes Newsweek reported that the 298 00:25:48,49 --> 00:25:48,83 U.S. 299 00:25:48,84 --> 00:25:54,18 Bombed only one. Using the other route hundreds of all kind and Taliban including 300 00:25:54,19 --> 00:26:01,02 senior leaders escaped. In the wake of the attacks eyewitnesses told 301 00:26:01,03 --> 00:26:05,09 Britain's The Daily Telegraph that they were shocked that the US had surrounded 302 00:26:05,10 --> 00:26:11,87 Tora Bora only on three sides. Bin 303 00:26:11,88 --> 00:26:16,27 Laden walked out of the Tora Bora cave complex and into Pakistan with 304 00:26:16,28 --> 00:26:23,11 a number of loyal followers. Of course were after Saddam Hussein I mean 305 00:26:23,12 --> 00:26:23,58 that meant 306 00:26:23,59 --> 00:26:29,85 a lot and he sees is isolated. In August two thousand and five 307 00:26:30,06 --> 00:26:32,00 a story broke that gave Paul Thompson 308 00:26:32,04 --> 00:26:37,40 a missing piece of the puzzle in an exclusive interview with Newsweek the CIA field 309 00:26:37,41 --> 00:26:42,70 commander in Tora Bora during the invasion Gary Berntsen broke his silence he 310 00:26:42,71 --> 00:26:47,68 explained that his intelligence operatives had tracked bin Laden to Tora Bora Mr 311 00:26:47,69 --> 00:26:52,47 Bernstein feels so strongly about getting the story out and getting his book 312 00:26:52,48 --> 00:26:57,37 published that he actually resigned two years short of retirement from the CIA in 313 00:26:57,38 --> 00:27:02,16 order to publish his book at the time of this interview he was required to speak 314 00:27:02,17 --> 00:27:08,34 through his attorney until the CIA cleared his book for publication. At various 315 00:27:08,35 --> 00:27:13,37 points in time they did have to my understanding definitive intelligence as to his 316 00:27:13,38 --> 00:27:18,96 general location within Tora Bora I can't go into detail as to the actual. 317 00:27:20,43 --> 00:27:23,95 Sources of the intelligence and the collection methods because those remain 318 00:27:23,96 --> 00:27:30,79 classified However we had Osama bin Laden essentially cornered in Tora Bora and for 319 00:27:30,80 --> 00:27:35,91 whatever reasons we did not do what was necessary in order to ensure that he did 320 00:27:35,92 --> 00:27:41,79 not escape. The goal has never been to get bin Laden obviously that's desirable. 321 00:27:42,83 --> 00:27:43,78 It's interesting I just read 322 00:27:43,79 --> 00:27:48,45 a piece by some analysts that said you may not want to go after the top people in 323 00:27:48,46 --> 00:27:51,59 these organizations who may have more effect by going after the middle managers 324 00:27:51,60 --> 00:27:57,04 because they're harder to replace. Toward the end of the war when all eyes were on 325 00:27:57,05 --> 00:28:03,26 Tora Bora the news media missed another major story again thousands of Taliban and 326 00:28:03,27 --> 00:28:05,49 al Qaeda escaped without drawing U.S. 327 00:28:05,50 --> 00:28:11,75 Buyer this time from the northern city of can do. The Taliban's only stronghold in 328 00:28:11,76 --> 00:28:16,77 the region is all but full into the forces of the Northern Alliance once again the 329 00:28:16,78 --> 00:28:23,27 door was left open for us. Our side in that battle at the enemy surrounded there 330 00:28:23,28 --> 00:28:23,76 were 331 00:28:23,81 --> 00:28:28,18 a reported perhaps eight thousand enemy forces in there now they have the cream of 332 00:28:28,19 --> 00:28:32,51 the crop of al Qaeda cause journalist Seymour Hersh later broke this story in The 333 00:28:32,52 --> 00:28:35,13 New Yorker magazine briefly sparking T.V. 334 00:28:35,14 --> 00:28:37,50 News coverage and from there all of 335 00:28:37,51 --> 00:28:41,54 a sudden one night around Thanksgiving in the middle of the siege an air corridor 336 00:28:41,55 --> 00:28:45,40 was set up between condos in northern Pakistan and at night Pakistani really 337 00:28:45,41 --> 00:28:47,87 playing regularly flew through that corridor was 338 00:28:47,88 --> 00:28:52,01 a very orderly organized thing that armed men would stand on the tarmac waiting for 339 00:28:52,02 --> 00:28:57,54 a flight that would come in and then they would be taken out. As many as forty five 340 00:28:57,55 --> 00:29:02,44 thousand they were not only al Qaeda but maybe even some of Bin Ladin the media 341 00:29:02,45 --> 00:29:06,71 family were flown out on those evacuation. Had to be done with the blessing of 342 00:29:07,25 --> 00:29:12,89 exactly and of the United States. When I tell you it cams at the level of Don 343 00:29:12,90 --> 00:29:18,15 Rumsfeld that has to what we're describing here is something which would clearly be 344 00:29:18,16 --> 00:29:22,91 noticed by the United States wanted to maybe not OK an airlift of these portions It 345 00:29:22,92 --> 00:29:26,41 certainly would this is the most secure space on the face of the earth right now if 346 00:29:26,42 --> 00:29:32,33 someone's moving over Afghanistan the United States knows about no plane conduit to 347 00:29:32,37 --> 00:29:37,12 Pakistan without getting shot down unless we let it happen and we let it happen and 348 00:29:37,13 --> 00:29:41,66 I think there's just no other way to explain it my take on it basically is the fact 349 00:29:41,67 --> 00:29:42,45 there is some sort of 350 00:29:42,46 --> 00:29:46,32 a deal in place between the government of Pakistan and the United States. 351 00:29:52,51 --> 00:29:58,22 Intrigue Thompson. Deeper into Pakistan his timeline showed Osama bin Laden was 352 00:29:58,23 --> 00:30:03,46 reportedly last seen in Pakistan after escaping from Tora Bora C.B.S. 353 00:30:03,47 --> 00:30:07,81 News has exclusive information tonight but thanks to an in-depth investigation by 354 00:30:07,82 --> 00:30:08,62 C.B.S. 355 00:30:08,90 --> 00:30:13,86 He also learned bin Laden was in Pakistan on the eve of nine eleven bin Laden was 356 00:30:13,87 --> 00:30:18,90 spirited into this military hospital in relativity for kidney dialysis treatment 357 00:30:19,36 --> 00:30:23,33 the military had him surrounded says this hospital employee who also wanted his 358 00:30:23,34 --> 00:30:27,84 identity managed they were saying that Osama bin Laden had to be watched carefully 359 00:30:27,96 --> 00:30:31,96 and looked after we will make no distinction between 360 00:30:31,97 --> 00:30:38,77 a terrorist who committed these acts. And those who harbor them. To 361 00:30:38,78 --> 00:30:43,39 better understand the times between bin Laden and Pakistan Thomas and followed 362 00:30:43,40 --> 00:30:48,41 a timeline thread that began with covert Pakistan involvement in the Soviet Afghan 363 00:30:48,42 --> 00:30:55,19 war two decades ago. In one nine hundred seventy nine 364 00:30:55,36 --> 00:31:01,74 in the midst of the Cold War the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. As well 365 00:31:02,25 --> 00:31:04,30 as the Soviets battled the would jockey 366 00:31:04,83 --> 00:31:11,44 a group of anti Soviet fighters that included enlargement. The mujahideen were 367 00:31:11,45 --> 00:31:15,75 backed by the Central Intelligence Agency who hoped to give the Soviets their own 368 00:31:15,76 --> 00:31:22,34 costly Vietnam type. Rather than fund the Mujahideen directly the 369 00:31:22,35 --> 00:31:27,89 CIA covertly channeled money through the Pakistani intelligence agency the I.S.I. 370 00:31:27,89 --> 00:31:32,68 . The Washington Post has published some of the definitive accounts of the 371 00:31:32,69 --> 00:31:38,35 conflicts that have helped create that modern and the roots of al Qaeda during the 372 00:31:38,36 --> 00:31:43,53 Russian occupation of Afghanistan when this record CIA and intelligence services of 373 00:31:43,54 --> 00:31:47,79 Pakistan and Saudi Arabia created this group of people to fight the Russians in 374 00:31:47,80 --> 00:31:54,49 Afghanistan. Billions of dollars from the CIA and the 375 00:31:54,50 --> 00:31:56,54 Saudis were passed through the I.S.I. 376 00:31:56,58 --> 00:32:03,02 To support the war. The strategy worked under Soviets were 377 00:32:03,03 --> 00:32:09,93 defeated. The Taliban are widely and led to be the 378 00:32:09,94 --> 00:32:13,64 creation of Pakistan's military intelligence the I.S.I. 379 00:32:14,10 --> 00:32:19,63 Experts say that explains that with military success that emboldened by their 380 00:32:19,64 --> 00:32:23,10 victory and the influx of weapons and cash the I.S.I. 381 00:32:23,11 --> 00:32:27,65 Helped to install the Taliban and deepen their ties to Dunlop and his terror 382 00:32:27,66 --> 00:32:32,84 networks. Because there's really no difference between an I.S.I. 383 00:32:32,85 --> 00:32:38,24 a Trainee here to terrorists. You know I'll try to treat. It would have some people 384 00:32:38,28 --> 00:32:40,82 working for al Qaeda they would go out with 385 00:32:40,87 --> 00:32:45,25 a private mission that other people working for the highest sign they would go up 386 00:32:45,26 --> 00:32:52,18 to Kashmir or one of their missions. Thompson wondered if 387 00:32:52,19 --> 00:32:52,79 I.S.I. 388 00:32:52,80 --> 00:33:02,68 Involvement in terrorism included the attacks of nine eleven. We 389 00:33:02,69 --> 00:33:05,15 will. Get the facts and government 390 00:33:05,16 --> 00:33:11,81 a chance to cooperate dissipate as we. Hunt 391 00:33:11,82 --> 00:33:18,29 down. Those people who committed this unbelievable spectacle I think America 392 00:33:19,16 --> 00:33:22,81 what I am told by senior administration official that the Pakistani government has 393 00:33:22,82 --> 00:33:28,49 promised about fully cooperate the dictator Pakistan general Bashar within days of 394 00:33:28,50 --> 00:33:30,87 the attacks Pakistan was hailed as 395 00:33:30,88 --> 00:33:35,74 a major ally in the new war on terror to fight against Osama bin White House seemed 396 00:33:35,75 --> 00:33:41,58 confident that all kind of alone was behind nine eleven. Will you release publicly 397 00:33:41,59 --> 00:33:46,67 a white paper which links him and his organization to this attack we are you know 398 00:33:46,68 --> 00:33:50,65 we are hard at work bringing all the information together intelligence and for the 399 00:33:50,66 --> 00:33:55,01 good information law enforcement information and I think in the near future will be 400 00:33:55,02 --> 00:33:55,70 able to put out 401 00:33:55,75 --> 00:34:01,75 a paper document that will describe quite clearly the evidence that we have now I 402 00:34:01,76 --> 00:34:02,63 think that there was just 403 00:34:02,64 --> 00:34:06,88 a misinterpretation of the exact words such are used on the Sunday shows I'm not 404 00:34:06,89 --> 00:34:09,34 aware of anybody who said white paper the secretary and say that 405 00:34:09,35 --> 00:34:13,44 a white paper yesterday you know you're here talking about actions in other parts 406 00:34:13,45 --> 00:34:19,17 of the world. And certainly you want the support of this many people around the 407 00:34:19,18 --> 00:34:26,00 world it's possible. You know I guess it seems as though you're 408 00:34:26,07 --> 00:34:30,84 asking everyone to trust. I mean logic. 409 00:34:33,10 --> 00:34:35,44 Intelligent they couldn't have done a wrong this was 410 00:34:35,45 --> 00:34:41,21 a sophisticated plot of bin Laden was not capable of doing this by himself and his 411 00:34:41,22 --> 00:34:45,58 group so who was cable obviously there has to be much more of an investigation in 412 00:34:45,59 --> 00:34:50,28 Pakistan but on October first the F.B.I. 413 00:34:50,29 --> 00:34:54,45 Discovered evidence linking the alleged hijackers and al Qaeda by following the 414 00:34:54,46 --> 00:35:01,18 money trail that ended at Mohamed Atta in Florida. Suspected hijacker Mohamed Atta 415 00:35:01,19 --> 00:35:03,34 received wire transfers by 416 00:35:03,35 --> 00:35:07,99 a Pakistani and then distributed the cash via Money Orders bought here and Florida 417 00:35:08,34 --> 00:35:10,84 a senior law enforcement source tells C.N.N. 418 00:35:11,08 --> 00:35:17,94 The man sending the money is believed to be Aquaman Omar Saeed Shaikh He reportedly 419 00:35:18,15 --> 00:35:24,15 is controlling certain aspects of the financial transactions of the network 420 00:35:25,05 --> 00:35:29,39 once a standout student at the London School of Economics the British born son of 421 00:35:29,63 --> 00:35:36,12 a study parents beaks five languages. The story made news in every major newspaper 422 00:35:36,12 --> 00:35:43,11 . With nine eleven paymaster identified as an alleged al Qaeda money 423 00:35:43,12 --> 00:35:48,17 man it seemed that the U.S. Finally had its proof that al Qaeda was involved in U.S. 424 00:35:48,18 --> 00:35:50,57 War on terror could now move ahead. 425 00:35:55,48 --> 00:36:00,64 But most of his post nine eleven reports about Omar Saeed shake and failed to 426 00:36:00,65 --> 00:36:02,31 mention was that at the same time 427 00:36:02,32 --> 00:36:06,82 a shaikh dropped out of the London School of Economics to presumably join al Qaeda 428 00:36:07,52 --> 00:36:09,90 he had also joined the I.S.I. 429 00:36:09,90 --> 00:36:16,29 . Arresting officer aka JANE SAYS under questioning Omar Shaykh admitted he was 430 00:36:16,30 --> 00:36:20,36 supported by the Pakistan government's intelligence service the I.S.I. 431 00:36:20,80 --> 00:36:26,63 He had gotten there he admitted to or yes and after his relief it was very clear 432 00:36:26,64 --> 00:36:32,95 that he was provided for to action and safe haven in Pakistan with the direct 433 00:36:33,63 --> 00:36:38,17 support with the knowledge and obviously with the connivance of the Pakistani 434 00:36:38,18 --> 00:36:43,71 intelligence only two days after the invasion of Afghanistan the Times of India 435 00:36:43,72 --> 00:36:44,84 reported the F.B.I. 436 00:36:44,85 --> 00:36:49,11 Discovered credible evidence that one hundred thousand dollars was wired to alleged 437 00:36:49,12 --> 00:36:55,55 hijacker Mohamed Atta by nine eleven paymaster Omar Saeed Sheikh on the orders of 438 00:36:55,85 --> 00:36:56,52 the I.S.I. 439 00:36:56,53 --> 00:37:03,14 Director Lieutenant General Mahmud. And that been the head of the Iraqi intelligence 440 00:37:03,15 --> 00:37:08,85 agency do you think we would have heard of that. You have to understand that kind 441 00:37:08,86 --> 00:37:11,62 of general Mahmoud Ahmed. Was 442 00:37:11,63 --> 00:37:17,69 a key player. William Pepper He's an international lawyer and consultant to the 443 00:37:17,70 --> 00:37:24,46 Pakistani government. Indian state intelligence came upon this 444 00:37:24,47 --> 00:37:30,09 transfer it was then you know The Times of India was able to get this information 445 00:37:30,16 --> 00:37:31,26 and the F.B.I. 446 00:37:31,45 --> 00:37:37,98 Got involved in this whole situation because this was now becoming very public as 447 00:37:37,99 --> 00:37:42,97 a result of the Indian investigation though the evidence was never publicly 448 00:37:42,98 --> 00:37:45,98 disclosed Indian intelligence claimed that the F.B.I. 449 00:37:45,99 --> 00:37:50,11 Had privately confirm the story to them and it soon made every major Indian 450 00:37:50,12 --> 00:37:51,78 newspaper in the U.S. 451 00:37:51,87 --> 00:37:52,19 Only 452 00:37:52,20 --> 00:37:56,70 a single news outlet even mentioned the allegation the information was reported as 453 00:37:56,71 --> 00:38:01,82 an Internet only story on the editorial section of The Wall Street Journal website 454 00:38:01,82 --> 00:38:07,46 . Now this cutesy title may contain this completely explosive information after the 455 00:38:07,47 --> 00:38:12,48 Times of India story broke paymaster Omar Saeed Shaykh was no longer the apparent 456 00:38:12,49 --> 00:38:17,87 proof that al-Qaeda was the sole sponsor of the attacks instead Sayed Shaikh acting 457 00:38:17,88 --> 00:38:19,32 on the orders of the I.S.I. 458 00:38:19,36 --> 00:38:25,44 Appeared to be the smoking gun of Pakistani involvement in nine eleven. And 459 00:38:25,48 --> 00:38:32,37 instantly within that they basically saved Shaikh becomes personified grata and 460 00:38:32,38 --> 00:38:32,51 then 461 00:38:32,52 --> 00:38:38,42 a whole bunch of other people are put forth as the paymaster. Over the next several 462 00:38:38,43 --> 00:38:43,06 months authorities began confusing the news media with the bill will during variety 463 00:38:43,07 --> 00:38:48,84 of alternate names for the paymaster each sounding similar to Omar Saeed Sheikh no 464 00:38:48,85 --> 00:38:54,12 it's this guy no it's this guy they keep changing the story about who the guy is it 465 00:38:54,13 --> 00:39:00,19 becomes hard to keep track. By the one year anniversary of nine eleven Newsweek had 466 00:39:00,20 --> 00:39:02,92 concluded that the paymaster remains almost 467 00:39:02,96 --> 00:39:09,20 a total mystery. The nine eleven Commission would ultimately conclude that the 468 00:39:09,21 --> 00:39:11,94 question of who financed the attacks is 469 00:39:11,95 --> 00:39:18,90 a little practical significance. And in my 470 00:39:18,91 --> 00:39:19,98 opinion it seems to be 471 00:39:19,99 --> 00:39:24,01 a bunch of smoke and mirrors to try to really hide the fact that there's money 472 00:39:24,05 --> 00:39:26,33 coming from the I.S.I. 473 00:39:26,42 --> 00:39:28,65 Going to the hijackers. 474 00:39:35,29 --> 00:39:39,74 If we were really going after the people who sponsored Al Qaida would we be bombing 475 00:39:39,75 --> 00:39:45,11 Pakistan are we better off in Pakistan or in Iraq in terms of being terrorism I 476 00:39:45,12 --> 00:39:49,72 would say to you if you asked me that question I would say No question let's forget 477 00:39:49,73 --> 00:39:54,76 about Iraq and let's focus on Pakistan there is no reason for the administration to 478 00:39:54,77 --> 00:40:00,09 continue to shield make believe allies who are supporting either directly or 479 00:40:00,10 --> 00:40:05,73 indirectly terrorist who's. Goal is to kill Americans and do you think that will 480 00:40:05,74 --> 00:40:10,62 ever become public which countries become public at some point when it's turned 481 00:40:10,63 --> 00:40:15,16 over to the archives but that's twenty or thirty years from now we need to have 482 00:40:15,17 --> 00:40:19,32 this information now because it's relevant to the threat that the people the United 483 00:40:19,33 --> 00:40:25,59 States are facing today. And here the story took another 484 00:40:25,63 --> 00:40:31,38 unexpected turn several top news sources had all reported that the Pakistani I.S.I. 485 00:40:31,39 --> 00:40:34,44 Director had actually been in Washington for 486 00:40:34,45 --> 00:40:40,19 a rare visit during the week of September eleventh. Are you OK are you 487 00:40:41,09 --> 00:40:46,09 hearing any force at the time that I have thanked if was in Washington on September 488 00:40:46,19 --> 00:40:52,17 eleventh and going for the most than one hundred thousand dollar life Wired If you 489 00:40:52,18 --> 00:40:58,21 think you know here in this area and life like maybe you didn't look at anybody in 490 00:40:58,22 --> 00:41:01,87 the research I'm not seeing that report and he was certainly not meeting with me 491 00:41:01,94 --> 00:41:08,88 yes. Elie Weekly reported that on the very evening 492 00:41:08,89 --> 00:41:10,67 of September eleventh U.S. 493 00:41:10,68 --> 00:41:14,80 State Department officials began negotiating the terms of the US Pakistani 494 00:41:14,81 --> 00:41:20,34 partnership with I assigned director Mahmoud I'm in the very man who was alleged to 495 00:41:20,35 --> 00:41:26,62 have ordered the wire transfer to Mohamed oughta. The talks continued over the next 496 00:41:26,63 --> 00:41:30,84 several days before the lieutenant general returned to Pakistan on September 497 00:41:30,85 --> 00:41:37,58 fourteenth. But an undercover operative named Randy 498 00:41:37,59 --> 00:41:41,85 Glass says he can prove that USA officials knew about the I.S.I. 499 00:41:41,86 --> 00:41:48,12 Role in nine eleven even as they chose to partner with Pakistan. The revelation 500 00:41:48,13 --> 00:41:53,60 came in yet another largely overlooked story this one reported by Dateline N.B.C. 501 00:41:54,05 --> 00:41:58,15 Conmen turned undercover operative brandy glass was infiltrating 502 00:41:58,16 --> 00:42:03,18 a terrorist arms buying network layer by layer former Kamen glass was part of 503 00:42:03,19 --> 00:42:07,16 a one nine hundred ninety nine government sting called Operation Diamondbacks 504 00:42:07,43 --> 00:42:09,94 a two and a half year investigation by the F.B.I. 505 00:42:10,07 --> 00:42:14,54 And the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms on July twenty second one thousand 506 00:42:14,55 --> 00:42:16,52 nine hundred nine last flew to New York for 507 00:42:16,53 --> 00:42:21,28 a meeting here at the trendy try back and grill it was dinner for four last his 508 00:42:21,29 --> 00:42:26,37 first contact via moisten the Jersey City businessman Mike Malik and the mystery 509 00:42:26,38 --> 00:42:27,87 man are G. 510 00:42:28,05 --> 00:42:33,72 Bonds and also quite funny and. As was wearing 511 00:42:33,73 --> 00:42:37,44 a wire mixed in with the dinner crowd were agents from the F.B.I. 512 00:42:37,45 --> 00:42:42,78 As terrorism task force basically what he told me was they were interested in 513 00:42:42,79 --> 00:42:48,69 purchasing. A large amount of sophisticated weapons systems and who was 514 00:42:48,70 --> 00:42:53,81 a boss representing as a boss was represented to me as being an I.S.I. 515 00:42:53,82 --> 00:42:58,71 Agent and this is where the stakes really get high because of Abbas was telling the 516 00:42:58,72 --> 00:43:03,60 truth Randy glass when the feds were about to cut any legal weapons deal with 517 00:43:03,61 --> 00:43:08,46 a Pakistani intelligence operative linked to terrorists the story of or in 518 00:43:08,47 --> 00:43:13,39 a glass that was in the kitchen the best most people have heard about this Have you 519 00:43:13,40 --> 00:43:18,37 heard about Randy glass they haven't heard about earlier today perhaps the story 520 00:43:18,38 --> 00:43:22,73 failed to spark the public imagination because the most dramatic revelation ended 521 00:43:22,74 --> 00:43:28,65 up on Dateline's cutting room floor. I had been threatened by F.B.I. 522 00:43:28,66 --> 00:43:34,56 Agents Cleburne asked me if I mention any of that I would be charged with 523 00:43:34,57 --> 00:43:41,47 obstruction of justice. Two months later the Palm Beach Post ran the story 524 00:43:42,33 --> 00:43:47,14 during the course of the conversation I asked him exactly what his intentions were 525 00:43:47,14 --> 00:43:53,81 . After dinner as we walked outside. He 526 00:43:53,82 --> 00:43:59,72 pointed in the direction of the World Trade Center. And said those towers are 527 00:43:59,73 --> 00:44:00,51 coming down. 528 00:44:11,30 --> 00:44:15,18 I'm not suggesting from this that Pakistan is the quote unquote solution in nine 529 00:44:15,19 --> 00:44:21,57 eleven because it's not. Pakistan is one part in the very complicated story. 530 00:44:22,87 --> 00:44:29,81 The question to me is who else was involved with al Qaeda was 531 00:44:29,82 --> 00:44:34,44 Al Qa to use as a tool just as in the one nine hundred eighty S. 532 00:44:34,50 --> 00:44:37,43 The Mujahedeen were basically used by the U.S. 533 00:44:37,44 --> 00:44:38,11 Government. 534 00:44:54,92 --> 00:44:58,23 In August two thousand and four after the nine eleven Commission had disappointed 535 00:44:58,24 --> 00:45:03,52 so many of the families with its report. Paul Thompson's completed timeline was 536 00:45:03,53 --> 00:45:04,07 published as 537 00:45:04,08 --> 00:45:10,89 a book by Harper Collins. The brokering themes of Paul Thomas from stime line are 538 00:45:10,90 --> 00:45:14,82 clear no accountability enters and many missed me. 539 00:45:17,84 --> 00:45:22,02 The sponsors of the attack yet to be confronted with the fact there is some sort of 540 00:45:22,03 --> 00:45:27,75 a deal in place between the government of Pakistan and the United States. The man 541 00:45:27,76 --> 00:45:32,03 named as the culprits allowed to escape but we haven't really captured anybody 542 00:45:32,04 --> 00:45:37,10 wanted to run the brain. And the government officials could Nord warnings before 543 00:45:37,11 --> 00:45:41,98 nine eleven still their position is I don't remember the al Qaeda cells as being 544 00:45:41,99 --> 00:45:47,70 something that we were told we needed to do something obviously. Still despite 545 00:45:47,71 --> 00:45:52,67 years of investigation and advocacy by their families and others the official story 546 00:45:52,68 --> 00:45:55,68 of what really happened on September eleventh remains. 547 00:46:00,58 --> 00:46:04,90 What is democracy you know it's government by the people it's 548 00:46:04,91 --> 00:46:11,47 a simple equation OK The biggest part of the mock Recy is the media 549 00:46:12,06 --> 00:46:17,62 they have the whole everyone accountable you know it would be impossible as 550 00:46:17,63 --> 00:46:23,49 a citizen to be up and informed on every single topic because it took us thousands 551 00:46:23,50 --> 00:46:28,34 of hours of research in order to be informed enough to ask the right questions here 552 00:46:28,41 --> 00:46:32,54 and that's where you need media because you know what. Somebody has to be out there 553 00:46:32,55 --> 00:46:36,44 connecting the dots. And we don't have. 554 00:46:40,13 --> 00:46:43,34 Good morning everyone thank you much the manager on the base Don't go away because 555 00:46:43,35 --> 00:46:50,01 I think news reporting drastically changed since nine eleven the Becket 556 00:46:50,05 --> 00:46:52,59 Abrams an assignment editor with A.B.C. 557 00:46:52,60 --> 00:46:58,94 News all the reporting. There is always use of 558 00:46:58,95 --> 00:47:05,87 caution. In how we cover this story. For those turning to the 559 00:47:05,88 --> 00:47:10,03 Internet rather than network news online buzz about President Bush in the Florida 560 00:47:10,04 --> 00:47:16,49 classroom had started within weeks of the attack. But most 561 00:47:16,50 --> 00:47:20,68 Americans remain unaware that for nearly three years the footage gathered dust on 562 00:47:20,69 --> 00:47:24,27 NEWSROOM shelves as the networks avoided the issue and their anniversary 563 00:47:24,28 --> 00:47:28,75 retrospective so maybe she knew it was going to be with you all day long bringing 564 00:47:28,76 --> 00:47:32,84 you the events of the day starting with the memorial here they seemed to go out of 565 00:47:32,85 --> 00:47:37,81 their way to avoid exposing the president's lack of response and president thought 566 00:47:37,82 --> 00:47:42,10 for a second or two about you know walking over there with the bros coming to 567 00:47:42,11 --> 00:47:47,17 a close and even with all our children instead Bush pauses thanks the children. 568 00:47:50,32 --> 00:47:56,96 And heads for the empty classroom next door. Finally into the void created by the 569 00:47:56,97 --> 00:48:01,99 news media crossing over the discomforting issues came filmmaker Michael Moore with 570 00:48:02,00 --> 00:48:08,20 his record breaking film Fahrenheit nine eleven. Barclay critical of the 571 00:48:08,21 --> 00:48:12,71 administration the film sparked controversy and fiery attacks on Moore himself. 572 00:48:16,23 --> 00:48:22,89 During prime time at the Republican National. Certainly not it just. 573 00:48:27,17 --> 00:48:31,57 Why had it been left to McCain's disingenuous filmmaker to bring these questions to 574 00:48:31,58 --> 00:48:38,54 the American public and I wonder what. Our record. Book E.C.U. 575 00:48:38,55 --> 00:48:43,16 News has free access to everything. And B.B.C. 576 00:48:43,26 --> 00:48:44,60 Television was 577 00:48:44,61 --> 00:48:49,69 a clue. Run the story you don't like the way Michael Moore does you think it's too 578 00:48:49,83 --> 00:48:55,58 clever by five run the hard news but. It's 579 00:48:55,59 --> 00:49:02,26 a question. We hear every day kicking and screaming in the news room 580 00:49:03,03 --> 00:49:05,28 trying to get stories out but we could do 581 00:49:05,29 --> 00:49:11,85 a story and it might not make air you have someone from the corporation making the 582 00:49:11,86 --> 00:49:16,26 editorial decisions these are not journalists another reaction from the 583 00:49:16,27 --> 00:49:20,08 administration now and again not exactly the stifling of dissent on the rise in 584 00:49:20,09 --> 00:49:25,14 America after nine eleven the tough questions were not asked much less answered 585 00:49:26,01 --> 00:49:26,25 there was 586 00:49:26,26 --> 00:49:32,51 a time in South Africa people would put flaming tires around people from next. If 587 00:49:32,52 --> 00:49:38,47 they dissented. And in some ways the fear 588 00:49:39,54 --> 00:49:43,02 is that you will. You'll be necklaced here have 589 00:49:43,03 --> 00:49:49,39 a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around from that now it's that fear. 590 00:49:50,68 --> 00:49:57,13 That keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions so all this 591 00:49:57,14 --> 00:50:02,74 information keeps popping out here and there but what happens is that no one wants 592 00:50:02,75 --> 00:50:05,92 to take the ball and run with it because all the information is there that we can 593 00:50:05,93 --> 00:50:11,61 put it together and get it into the Washington Post. A ten day series and people 594 00:50:11,62 --> 00:50:18,37 say. The facts were driven out and over 595 00:50:18,38 --> 00:50:24,23 such an extended period of time that I think that effect was lost on you Merican 596 00:50:24,24 --> 00:50:27,79 public. The press should have been doing 597 00:50:27,85 --> 00:50:34,60 a better job of putting. Conflicts if you will. You know side by 598 00:50:34,61 --> 00:50:40,21 side in reporting but that's not the job of the work that's the job of toil pages 599 00:50:40,34 --> 00:50:44,33 politicians and others to make those kinds of judgments and the public itself and 600 00:50:44,34 --> 00:50:48,97 the nine eleven relatives to make those kinds of sessions all we can do in our 601 00:50:48,98 --> 00:50:53,02 reporting is report facts that we have reporting those facts and we have held those 602 00:50:53,03 --> 00:50:56,79 facts up against public statements time which is why they know that that's that's 603 00:50:56,80 --> 00:50:58,10 what took place in my reporting. 604 00:51:24,61 --> 00:51:30,43 This is skin of tremendous proportion makes what. This strange lack of interest of 605 00:51:30,44 --> 00:51:35,52 people both on the left and on the right nobody seems to want to uncover the truth 606 00:51:35,53 --> 00:51:38,89 and just follow. I think that goes to 607 00:51:38,90 --> 00:51:43,88 a lot of really damaging place maybe we should have question whether or not 608 00:51:43,89 --> 00:51:49,10 President had any involvement in Watergate maybe we should have just accepted that 609 00:51:49,11 --> 00:51:54,42 story maybe. We should have accepted the story that President Clinton had no 610 00:51:54,43 --> 00:52:00,66 involvement had never had sex with that woman Miss Lewinsky So just because it's 611 00:52:00,67 --> 00:52:06,37 the official story of records and that we should not delve further and really. 612 00:52:09,39 --> 00:52:13,59 Yes they lie. Whether consciously or unconsciously. 613 00:52:19,75 --> 00:52:23,42 Why they. And what were the results that. 614 00:52:27,28 --> 00:52:33,56 We were going to. We have to go beyond that. 615 00:52:35,76 --> 00:52:42,76 We have to know we have to. Believe it was the biggest. 616 00:52:44,40 --> 00:52:50,83 And if it wasn't. That. We had to take 617 00:52:51,41 --> 00:52:58,05 this tragedy and do the best we could with our lives and with our 618 00:52:58,06 --> 00:53:05,04 country. To try and make. The people 619 00:53:05,08 --> 00:53:11,71 that are supposed to take the right thing. What I really wanted to happen 620 00:53:11,88 --> 00:53:18,48 here is for my child. I could have cared less. I wanted to troops and I 621 00:53:18,49 --> 00:53:25,48 wanted what was wrong. What we're left with after our journey. No 622 00:53:25,49 --> 00:53:31,00 answers no accountability and. More years of my life. 623 00:53:33,21 --> 00:53:40,06 Trying my damnedest with the other family members to make sure this never 624 00:53:40,07 --> 00:53:40,79 happens again. 625 00:53:51,33 --> 00:53:52,64 Let me just real quickly. 626 00:54:03,37 --> 00:54:06,38 How. Are you doing this for one reason. 627 00:54:14,77 --> 00:54:15,70 Because of this cover. 628 00:54:24,72 --> 00:54:25,28 TIMOTHY. 629 00:54:31,92 --> 00:54:33,47 Kramer and my big. 630 00:54:48,22 --> 00:54:48,61 Speech. 631 00:54:59,65 --> 00:55:00,03 We'll take 632 00:55:00,04 --> 00:56:49,18 a break here. I 633 00:56:49,19 --> 00:56:53,05 lost my husband I still had my uncle my note from September eleventh two thousand 634 00:56:53,06 --> 00:56:58,21 and one most people don't know with third tower fell by the government says by 635 00:56:58,22 --> 00:57:02,31 a brought it down to collapse and won't Trade Center seven was primarily due to 636 00:57:02,32 --> 00:57:06,83 five years and I along with fourteen hundred other architects and engineers have 637 00:57:06,84 --> 00:57:10,96 said on the government's conclusion to be physically impossible possible impossible 638 00:57:11,11 --> 00:57:16,53 we need the truth about what happened that day go to remember building seven why it 639 00:57:16,54 --> 00:57:18,91 fell why it matters and what you can do.