David McCloskey

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17,234 appearances 72 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 4d ago

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

It's it's a collection failure that I think obviously it in it I I start sort of upstream. matched

Because if you had that. matched

9-11 would have been prevented. matched

Totally. matched

Clearly. matched

like operational overt here with MI5 and they were inside the airliner plot. matched

And it and it matched

the the SIGINT is is matched

You would you probably wouldn't have been able to break up the plot because these guys were not matched

Speaking in anything other than code over the phone. matched

And they were using human couriers for the most important thing. matched

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When we did our our series on the on the coast bombing. matched

Which was this, you know, al Qaeda. matched

Agent who ends up matched

killing himself and seven other CI officers at Coast Afghanistan in two thousand and nine. matched

You know, we we we talked in the wash up for that episode about how matched

When these failures happen, it's kind of like a plane crash where there's a lot of different stuff that goes wrong, right? matched

And you can point to a lot of structural and organizational factors that feed into the intelligence failure. matched

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