David McCloskey

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

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actually go and try to, you know, capture bin Laden and bring him to the US and try him. matched

But I I think it I think it's true that if if you had had a really aggressive covert action finding in the latter years of the Clinton administration. matched

you probably wouldn't have had 9-11 because one or more of those opportunities would have actually been taken, or the existence of a much more muscular finding would have led to resourcing and people and and targeting opportunities which might have been disrupted. matched

contentious, but maybe more interesting, um missed chances or kind of the the matched

you know, nature of the what the nine eleven commission calls the the management failures, really operational failures, uh, to potentially unravel the plot. matched

It's worth going into these in some in some detail because we've we've talked about a few of them throughout the series. matched

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Highlights ten points. matched

In in the sort of run up to nine eleven. matched

where there were these quote unquote management failures. matched

Now, what the commission is careful to do is not to assert that had these had these dots been connected or had organizations shared information fluidly, they're careful not to then make the case that 9-11 would have been prevented. matched

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But they do identify these as missed opportunities. matched

And you know, the first one, I mean, essentially they we won't go through all ten here. matched

We've kind of synthesized it, but matched

They essentially all boil down to information sharing between the CIA and the FBI. matched

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is in early 2000, about 18 months before 9-11, that critical point where the CIA doesn't watch list Khalid al-Madar, one of the Saudi operatives, or notify the FBI when it learns that he has a valid US visa. matched

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