The 9/11 Files: From Tragedy to Tyranny | Ep 5
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The 9-11 Commission failed to fulfill the single task it was charged with, explaining how 9-11 happened and why. Instead, it lied. But the 9-11 Commission did achieve another goal.
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It protected the Bush administration, which went on to win a resounding reelection victory in the 2004 elections. It also provided a basis to radically transform our country and our way of life in the United States. The final 70 pages of the 9-11 report detail a long list of recommended reforms. Those so-called reforms radically expanded the power of the very same agencies that failed to protect the United States from the terror attacks.
With my signature, This law will give intelligence and law enforcement officials important new tools to fight a present danger.
Some of those changes, like the Patriot Act, passed before the commission even issued its report.
We did not need new laws to allow wiretapping and surveillance because in all of the channels for the FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, we had every bit of information we needed to stop the terrorists.
Kristen Breitweiser is a lawyer. She's also a 9-11 widow who has spent decades pushing for accountability for what happened on 9-11.
The attacks 100% should have been prevented, could have been prevented. The US government had everything it needed to stop the attacks.
And yet, rather than blame the agencies for their obvious failures, Congress gave the deep state power to access your business records, including your library and bookstore records. with minimal to no judicial oversight, as if you did something wrong. Congress permitted roving wiretaps of multiple phones without specifying a specific target. Congress authorized unconstitutional searches of homes and businesses without any notification at all. Congress created something called national security letters, which enabled the FBI to get personal records without any court's approval, and also gave the FBI power to issue gag orders so you couldn't tell anyone they were doing this.
We were already wiretapping and doing surveillance just fine before the Patriot Act. So again, the attacks could have been prevented 100%. We had all the information we needed to stop the attacks. We had the hijackers fully identified. We knew exactly where they were going and we knew what they were up to. We knew that the Patriot Act, FISA warrants, they're not needed because we already had all the information we needed before 9-11 to stop the attacks.
In 2007, the National Security Agency created the PRISM program that conducted warrantless surveillance of your phone calls, your emails, and your internet activity. Much of this surveillance was conducted on American citizens who'd done nothing wrong.
My name is John Kiriakou, K-I-R-I-A-K-O-U. I'm a former CIA counterterrorism officer, former chief of counterintelligence in Alec Station, and I was in CIA Counterterrorism Center on 9-11. Within hours of the attacks, in retrospect, it's much more clear, the CIA changed from an intelligence service who saw its job as recruiting spies to steal secrets and then to analyze those secrets so policymakers could make the best informed policy, to a paramilitary organization whose job it was to capture and or kill anybody who could pose a threat to the United States. I went to Pakistan as the chief of CIA counterterrorism operations in January of 2002, and I was given no specific orders. So on my very first day in Pakistan, I went to see the station chief and I said, what do you want me to do?
And he said, I want you to come up with a plan to take down a terrorist safe house. I went back to my desk with a legal pad and thought to myself, all right, what would I do to take down a terrorist safe house? And I wrote at the top of the page, 0200, because I would want it to be dark. And then I thought, well, 9-11 is still an open criminal investigation, so I'd have to invite the FBI along, and I would have to invite the Pakistani Intelligence Service because, after all, it's their country. I figured I would need battering rams, guns, ammunition, walkie-talkies, a satellite dish, encrypted communications, all different sorts of things, which I ordered on my CIA credit card.
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