David McCloskey

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

The failure of policy here via a covert action mechanism at the CIA is that matched

You had you did have opportunities. matched

I mean, there there's a famous opportunity in the late nineteen nineties where matched

The CIA knows matched

That bin Laden is attending a meeting. matched

They know in advance. matched

And he's attending a meeting with matched

Essentially I I believe it's Emirati Sheikhs. matched

Sheikhs. matched

Yeah. matched

Fi potential financiers. matched

And the decision is made to not fire a cruise missile at the end. matched

Because you're gonna kill the matched

gonna kill these Sheikhs. matched

Now matched

You could argue till you're blue in the face that maybe at the in the moment that made sense, but it it is matched

completely true that the gloves weren't off. matched

So that was an opportunity. matched

Shoyer's Alex Station. matched

Throughout the late 1990s, had come up with various plans. matched

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