David McCloskey

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

Yeah, here's the thing. matched

The FBI can't open his laptop. matched

There's a legal back and forth over the type of criminal warrant that the FBI has. matched

And the FBI eventually decides it doesn't have the legal grounding. matched

To search his laptop. matched

A headquarters agent c is complaining, is saying to the Minneapolis field office guys, he's saying, You've written your your FISA request, your foreign intelligence surveillance request to get access, particular type of warrant to get access to this laptop. matched

He's a you wrote this to get people spun up. matched

And the Minneapolis FBI supervisor says, but you're you're damn right. matched

And this is a direct quote. matched

I'm trying to keep someone from taking a plane and crashing into the World Trade Center. matched

Wow. matched

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Broadly in two thousand and one. matched

In the summer. matched

You know, neither CA nor FBI connect the presence of Midar, Hazmi, or Musawi to the flood of general reporting about imminent attacks. matched

And it's interesting because there was a a report that made it to George Tennant's desk at CIA in late August that was titled Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly. matched

I mean and it was about Musawi. matched

there's a cliche that has emerged in the years since 9-11 that it was a failure. matched

It could be a failure of imagination, but also a failure to connect the matched

will probably return. matched

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