David McCloskey

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

finding bits and pieces of the operation along the way and linking them together and then unraveling it that way. matched

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That's right. matched

Failure of capabilities. matched

We talked about how matched

starved the American intelligence community was throughout the 1990s. matched

Um, you know, for for resources, a lot of the workforce had gone away. matched

I mean, again, it's a deep structural thing that I think does play a role in 9-11. matched

There's an organizational matched

problem, which we'll come to in more detail on the way the CIA and the FBI interact with one another, that does, I think, directly feed in to the failure on 9-11, which is that these two agencies matched

were not particularly good at sharing information with each other and it meant that in a world where matched

transnational terrorist groups like Al Qaeda who are you know moving people essentially from a foreign theater into the US matched

it creates an incredible awkwardness and difficulty for a domestic, essentially law enforcement agency like the FBI and a foreign intelligence service like the CIA to collaborate. matched

They have different cultures, you know, different tribes essentially that that do complicate a a fight like counterterrorism. matched

The CIA didn't think it had the authorities, the covered action authorities, to go and kill Bin Laden until the seventeenth of September two thousand and one. matched

When it gets a finding that is perhaps the most aggressive possible covert action finding you could receive. matched

Which and that feeds Kofer Black's Kofort famously dog who's off the leash. matched

action is policy. matched

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