Jamie Rubin

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

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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 I think it was that guilt that they knew they were partly responsible for not working hard enough to prevent that attack, because in retrospect, it was preventable in the sense that the be pieces of the puzzle were findable when the 9-11 Commission did its work. voice-verified

It's clear that if the FBI and the CIA had been pressured by the President and the White House to force uh cooperation, it was possible to voice-verified

Put these threads together and possibly stop the attack. voice-verified

So their guilt, I think, made them worry too much about this weapons of mass destruction, and they overreacted. voice-verified

They did not want to make that mistake again. voice-verified

And then they did it badly. voice-verified

Not only were they wrong about the existence of biological weapons and chemical weapons, they exaggerated the likelihood of nuclear weapons. voice-verified

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And then they didn't have a plan to do what to do when Saddam fell. voice-verified

And so they did it terribly. voice-verified

And I think that shocked people because they people expected America to do it well. voice-verified

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could just add there, because I know that just one small point, because I know people will think about I just want people to understand that I read this material for many, many years. voice-verified

Almost all of the experts that I knew, who were honest men and women, thought he had some biological and chemical weapons. voice-verified

And Saddam Hussein himself later admitted he wanted us to think that. voice-verified

He wanted the Iranians to think. voice-verified

So it was one of these mind-boggling mistakes on the part of of our assessment and his judgment that led to a war that needn't have happened if he had just admitted that he had getting rid of them all. voice-verified

Let me put together several things you said, and I think there's a theme here, which is that nine eleven militarized American foreign policy because the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies took the lead, because President Bush gave them the lead over the State Department, because diplomacy was sidelined. voice-verified

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Diplomatic options were not pursued as long as possible with Iraq. voice-verified

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