Jamie Rubin

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3,234 appearances 20 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

Jamie Rubin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files · Did 9/11 put the US on a permanent war footing? · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

And Donald Rumsfeld said something m reprehensible, which is I don't care how they're treated, look what they did to us on nine eleven. voice-verified

And that wa one statement about rejecting the Geneva Conventions. voice-verified

I saw, you know, cut through political uh spectrum, across the political spectrum, all over Europe, right, left, center. voice-verified

Couldn't believe that an American uh leader would say such a thing, and that began the break between the United States and the rest of the world. voice-verified

I I would market to that statement about the prisoners. voice-verified

Yes, I think that's true. voice-verified

Um in many ways this was the first attack on America's actual uh you know, continental United States. voice-verified

There had been Pearl Harbor, obviously, but that was Hawaii, that was in the middle of the Pacific. voice-verified

This was an attack on the you know, on New York City. voice-verified

And and this is really important in retrospect for people to understand the hysteria. voice-verified

Some weeks after nine eleven there was also an anthrax attack. voice-verified

And this turned out, I believe, to have been done domestically, but people didn't know that at the time, where anthrax uh was sent to many prominent figures and people in post office died, I believe, and it was a big scare about the danger of biological weapons. voice-verified

You know, Europeans had gone through World War One, World War II on their own soil. voice-verified

Many other countries had faced war on their own soil, but not the same. voice-verified

Not since the Civil War, had the United States, that is, you know, hundreds plus years, um, faced an attack on its own soil from outside. voice-verified

And it transformed American politics. voice-verified

And I remember thinking about it in the following way, and perhaps this will make people understand. voice-verified

New York is obviously known to be left of center or the liberal bastion, whatever you want to call it, especially downtown New York. voice-verified

And there voice-verified

There were those who were against various wars the United States conducted because they had always said, I'll never be for a war until we're attacked. voice-verified

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