David McCloskey
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17,419 appearances
73 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
David McCloskey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and it's it's not implausible.
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That there could have been policy energy in either the Clinton administration or the Bush Bush administration to deal with this.
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You have dozens of Americans dead in the 1998 embassy bombings, and you have 17 sailors dead on the USS Coal.
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So you already have this isn't some distant threat.
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This is someone who's murdered Americans by the time we get to 2001.
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mean, impossible to answer, right?
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Because when you look back at dots, we all analytically go, well, someone should have connected these dots.
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But it's hindsight,
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It is hindsight.
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So there's tremendous hindsight bias at play here.
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But I do think as much as we can, it is useful.
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to try to put ourselves in the shoes of the actual CIA counterterrorism analysts and desk officers and the FBI special agents who were, you know, in involved in
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investigations at the time and in in the casework on Al Qaeda.
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I think, you know, the
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The nine eleven commission looked at this and they they
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They're wishy washy on.
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They never really say the plot would have failed.
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if any of those quote unquote failures of management had been addressed, but they do catalog all these missed opportunities along the way.
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Lawrence Wright in the Looming Tower, uh which is a a great history of many of these topics and Al Qaeda and the run up uh to nine eleven.
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Lawrence Wright makes the case that
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