David McCloskey

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The Rest Is Classified · 192. 9/11: The War on Terror (Ep 6) · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

What is the what is the nature of the intelligence failure here? matched

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There has been a lot of ink spilled on this question in the last twenty five years. matched

You know, we have we have the nine eleven commission. matched

We have a book by the intelligence scholar Amy Ziegard called Spying Blind, Bob Graham, the senator who chaired the matched

Congressional Inquiry into 9-11 wrote a book called Intelligence Matters, which gets at this question. matched

We also have the recollections of those inside the intelligence community. matched

Michael Scheuer's memoir, Richard Clark, who'd been counter-terrorism director at the White House, George Tennant, the CIA director, Michael Morrell. matched

You know, so we have matched

a lot of different perspectives on the nature of the failure. matched

And I think matched

th the perhaps most obvious, but I would argue most important place to start, and it is it is a piece of the failure conversation. matched

Is that the American intelligence community matched

In the late nineteen nineties, failed to penetrate the upper echelons of Al-Qaeda. matched

We failed to have. matched

Well-placed sources or signals intelligence intercepts of Al-Qaeda senior leadership in the run-up to the 9-11 attack. matched

And we did not penetrate the plot. matched

Yeah. matched

We did not penetrate the plot. matched

And that is not a failure of dot collecting or analysis. matched

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