Richard Miniter
speaker
1,766 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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That say
France, Germany, Britain, Denmark don't, right?
Uh so to compromise with the Saudis, they created
uh Visa Express, which was a very quick system for getting a US visa.
So for the Saudis it was a matter of prestige.
They wanted to be treated like the Europeans and Australians.
Uh and this was the compromise.
А за результат
the people who became the hijackers were able to get to take advantage of this program.
If this program had been offered in Qatar instead of Saudi Arabia, nineteen of the hijackers would have been from Qatar, not Saudi, right?
So they had studied our system, found a weak point, took advantage of it.
How did they select the airports where the planes were going to leave?
They looked at the FAA's website.
Um, and found the airports with the largest number of security violations.
They knew that Logan Airport in Boston, for example, was run by a political appointee who had previously been the chauffeur for the governor of Massachusetts.
So they thought they picked airports, uh Dulles uh airport in Washington, for example.
was another where there were a long history of documented security lapses.
So they used US government data publicly available in a free society, it's how we work.
to plot where to
Hijacked which planes to hijack.
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