Narrator / Host (Tucker Carlson Show producer/narrator)

Three days later, he told Rice that something very, very, very, very big was about to happen.

On June 30th, top US intel officials were warned Bin Laden planning high-profile attacks of catastrophic proportion.

In July, intelligence reports of an impending attack reached a fever pitch that led to the closure of US embassies in the Middle East.

None of this apparently got the attention of the White House.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the man who thought the coal bombing was, quote, stale, questioned the reporting in a conversation with Bush's deputy national security advisor.

On July 12th, 2001, acting FBI Director Thomas Picard opened Attorney General John Ashcroft's intelligence briefing with the latest on the CIA warnings about an al-Qaeda attack.

Ashcroft responded by saying, I don't want you to ever talk to me about al-Qaeda, about these threats.

I don't want to hear about al-Qaeda anymore.

Picard appealed for more counterterrorism enhancements, meaning funding, an appeal the Attorney General denied on September 10th.

The United States was attacked the very next day.

By lying to the American public serially and aggressively, the CIA, the Bush administration, and the 9-11 Commission created the perfect condition for conspiracy theories to thrive.

Consider, for example, the established fact that in the days before the attack, there was a huge surge in put options against airline stocks.

Who beside Al-Qaeda knew the attacks were coming?

And who specifically profited from these trades?

It seems possible, probably likely, that foreign governments, including supposed allies, knew the plot was coming.

Why didn't they warn the United States?

And why did U.S.

authorities rush to ship all the debris from the attacks abroad almost immediately, making it impossible for engineers to study the crime scene?

Those are just some of the questions we will address in the next installment of our series.