Kristen Breitweiser

I think that

As someone who lost a loved one, I know the devastation war brings to a home and a family.

And it makes me sick to think that no one was really held accountable for the war in Iraq, for the hundreds of thousands of lives, for the tens of thousands of U.S.

soldiers.

And I'm just confounded with the fact that the American public never demanded that.

And that for all intents and purposes, they got away with 9-11 and they got away with the war in Iraq.

I mean, I think there are certainly theories out there, but I think when you look at the facts, it would be certainly more comforting for the government to come forward and prove that that's not the case, right?

Like, it's uncomfortable as an American citizen to think that members of our intelligence apparatus, our intelligence community, stood down.

greased the wheels, facilitated different fact scenarios that enabled the attacks that may or may not have already been underway.

And so there's a story out there that that happened, that, you know, the CIA might have allowed certain things to happen and to move forward because they were letting the line out.

to try to learn more about Al-Qaeda or terrorist groups, to learn more to get the big fish, quote unquote.

I think that that's an interesting, nice way to look at things, certainly a less diabolical way.

But there's a rule supposedly in the intel community that when you have actionable intelligence, you're supposed to roll up the operation.

And so one of the biggest questions that I have centers on the Yemen switchboard, the Al-Hada House switchboard.

The CIA apparently learned about that in, I think, 96.

They officially learned about it in 98 through the embassy bombing.

And of course, my question would be, if the CIA is monitoring the al-Hada switchboard, all of the communications that bin Laden is sending out to his operatives around the world to carry out attacks, when the 98 embassy bombing happened, why didn't they go in and shut down the al-Hada switchboard?

They didn't.

They, I guess, wanted to leave the line out and continue to learn more information, and they didn't want to tip off al-Qaeda or bin Laden that they had ears on him and his operations.

okay, so the embassy bombing happens, kind of not great.