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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to go deep on this question of well really could it have been prevented? matched

And I think it's a helpful for me, it's a helpful exercise to kind of split the questions up a bit and to say, well, there's a question of what's the nature of the intelligence failure? matched

Because there obviously was one. matched

And then there's a question of given matched

reality at the time. matched

have been prevented? matched

And I you know, I think my my view of the of the first question, the failure is that. matched

It has to be seen as a national failure, not just an intelligence failure. matched

It is an intelligence failure, but it's it's more than that because it is a failure. matched

At the intelligence level, it is absolutely a failure of collection. matched

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And I think you could you could matched

Plausibly make the case that it is an analytical failure to do some of this dot connecting. matched

And to share the information. matched

It's a fail, it's an organizational failure between the CIA and the FBI, but it is also, it is a massive failure of our nation's counter-terrorism policy. matched

And the covert action authorities that go along with that, I think from 1996, when bin Laden declares war, up to September 11, 2001. matched

It is it is a primarily, I think, because the Intel feeds into the policy. matched

So it's for me, it is primarily a national failure to deal with an emerging counter-terrorism. matched

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