Podcast appearances and mentions of george tenet

Sub to the Patreon to access all 2 & half hours of "3/22 as Mass Ritual" (Pt. II): patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping You can also support the show by making a one time donation at: https://ko-fi.com/parapowermapping We're resuming our comp paranoid analysis of the Crocus f a l s e flag, the 9/11 MegaRitual complex, & the Christopher Nolan film “Tenet” to explore the notion that said time-manipulating & C

The shocking reexamination of the failures of US government officials to use available intelligence to stop the attack on American on September 11, 2001. “The authors lay bare…an intelligence failure of historic proportions.”—John Kiriakou, former CIA officer, author, The Convenient TerroristIn 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counterterror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. In the meeting, Clarke boldly accused one-time Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet of “malfeasance and misfeasance” in the pre-war on terror. Thus began an incredible—never-before-told—investigative journey of intrigue about America's intelligence community and two 9/11 hijackers.The Watchdogs Didn't Bark details that story, unearthed over a ten-year investigation. Following the careers of a dozen counterterror employees working in different agencies of the US government from the late 1980s to the present, the book puts the government's systems of oversight and accountability under a microscope. At the heart of this book is a mystery: Why did key 9/11 plotters Khalid Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi, operating inside the United States, fall onto the radars of so many US agencies without any of those agencies succeeding in stopping the attacks?The answers go beyond mere “conspiracy theory” and “deep state” actors, but instead find a complicated set of potential culprits and an easily manipulated system. Taking readers on a character-driven account of the causes of 9/11 and how the lessons of the attacks were cynically inverted to empower surveillance of citizens, kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, torture, government-sanctioned murder, and a war on whistleblowers and journalists, an alarm is raised which is more pertinent today than ever before.https://amzn.to/3SiG4trhttps://amzn.to/3SiG4tr

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 936, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: halls of fame 1: It opened in Cooperstown, New York in 1939. Baseball Hall of Fame. 2: Wade Boggs, Satchel Paige. baseball. 3: This prodigy who won the U.S. Open at age 14 in 1957 was a charter member of the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. Bobby Fischer. 4: "King Me" if you know that Petal, Mississippi is home to the international hall of fame for this game. checkers. 5: Instead of just "standing on a corner in" this Arizona city, drop by an Astronaut Hall of Fame. Winslow. Round 2. Category: money superstitions 1: When you give one of these to a man, a coin or bill should be in it so he'll never be out of money. a wallet. 2: If your left hand does this, money is coming. itches. 3: A groom may give a bride a penny to wear in this for good luck. a shoe. 4: Turn over a silver coin in your pocket when you see this heavenly body and your wish will come true. the Moon. 5: Carrying a coin with this year stamped on it is supposed to bring you good luck. the year of your birth. Round 3. Category: stringed instruments 1: The OED says this word for a violin is "only in familiar or contemptuous use". fiddle. 2: The best classical guitars are this type named for a country, like the ones made by Alhambra. Spanish guitars. 3: Its name may come from the African "mbanza", which is a similar instrument. Banjo. 4: This instrument played by Manolis Hiotis is Greek to me (and everyone else, too). Bouzouki. 5: Jacqueline du Pre made an acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut May 14, 1965 playing Elgar's concerto for this instrument. cello. Round 4. Category: rock bands 1: Steven Tyler of this group said the Grateful Dead "were worried about us, so that gives you some idea of how (messed) up and crazy we were". Aerosmith. 2: ("Heart of Glass"). Blondie. 3: ("Fight for Your Right"). The Beastie Boys. 4: The classic "Free Bird" by this southern rock group was a tribute to Duane Allman. Lynyrd Skynyrd. 5: Fans of this current band are known as Firebreathers. Imagine Dragons. Round 5. Category: high intelligence 1: In 2004 he replaced George Tenet as the permanent head of the CIA. Porter Goss. 2: The name of this intelligence service established in 1951 is from the Hebrew for "institution". Mossad. 3: John Thurloe was this English leader's intelligence chief in the 1650s, gathering info on royalist plots. (Oliver) Cromwell. 4: During World War II Gen. Bill Donovan ran this forerunner of the CIA. the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). 5: Sanskrit for "learned man", this term was used for natives recruited into intelligence gathering in British India. pundit. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Bandar Bush Plus 911 UpdatesThe Ochelli Effect 8-16-2023 Jon GoldNotes Fron JonA good friend of the Bush family helped to finance 9/11, and was in contact with "Omar al Bayoumi, a Saudi agent who assisted two of the hijackers upon their arrival in the U.S." Omar reported "directly to Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar in Washington leading up to the attacks."That good friend, and Prince Bandar are one and the same.From Jacobinhttps://jacobin.com/2022/03/911-revelations-saudi-arabia-al-bayoumi-bandar-bush/"Despite all this, and even though FBI agents had reason to believe he was a Saudi spy — something only revealed in 2016 upon declassification of twenty-eight pages of the 9/11 Commission Report that former president George W. Bush had ordered be kept secret — US authorities exonerated him. The report ultimately concluded there was “no credible evidence” that al-Bayoumi “knowingly aided extremist groups,” while the bureau decided in 2004 that he had no “advance knowledge of the terrorist attack” nor that the two hijackers-to-be were members of al-Qaeda.This latest release makes those claims a lot less tenable. According to an FBI communiqué dated to June 2017, from the late 1990s to September 11, 2001, al-Bayoumi “was paid a monthly stipend as a cooptee of the Saudi General Intelligence Presidency (GIP),” the country's principal spy agency. The document notes that while his involvement with Saudi intelligence wasn't confirmed at the time of the 9/11 Commission Report, the bureau has now confirmed it. In a separate 2017 document, bureau officials judge that “there is a 50/50 chance [al-Bayoumi] had advanced knowledge the 9/11 attacks were to occur.”[...]"More than that, the report directly implicates a member of the Saudi royal family and government. Al-Bayoumi's monthly stipend was paid “via then ambassador [to the United States] Prince Bandar bin Sultan Alsaud,” it states, and any information al-Bayoumi collected on “persons of interest in the Saudi community in Los Angeles and San Diego and other issues, which met certain GIP intelligence requirements, would be forwarded to Bandar,” who would “then inform the GIP of items of interest to the GIP for further investigation/vetting or follow up.”'https://wewereliedtoabout911.substack.com/p/a-damned-good-question-tribute-to?fbclid=IwAR0VJzo2CMTrz5bO1mUviC78jT5mfqLkrH9yEreDo8SWfUJLqq_YO2rbTBQ"I was listening to my interview with Paul Thompson (which by the way is priceless), and we talked about the "flip theory" concerning the two alleged hijackers in San Diego put forward by Richard Clarke. The idea was so they would have operatives inside of "Al-Qaeda." I don't agree with it. What I know is that the CIA was protecting two of the alleged hijackers, and that's reason enough for people to be held accountable, and for truths to be told."[...]So I was thinking, if Prince Bandar helps to finance "Al-Qaeda" and 9/11, then that technically makes him a member of "Al-Qaeda." I can't think of a better plant to get inside of "Al-Qaeda." He was good friends with George Tenet, then the Director of the CIA. George used to go to his house, swim in his pool, and go on drunken tirades. I'm sure they spoke about A LOT of things. Prince Bandar was GOOD FRIENDS with the Bush Family. So close, he was referred to as "Bandar Bush."On March 15th 2001, George Bush was meeting with Prince Bandar, one of the financiers of "Al-Qaeda" and 9/11, and talked about Iraq. He said "if there is any military action, then it has to be decisive. That can finalize the issue," and that "the Iraqi opposition is useless and not effective." Months before the pretext (9/11) that enabled the Bush Administration to go into Iraq. One day Dick Cheney invites Prince Bandar to his West Wing Office. Donald Rumsfeld, and General Myers are present. Myers brought "a top-secret map of the war plan. And it says, 'Top secret. No foreign.' No foreign means no foreigners are supposed to see this." "They describe in detail the war plan for Bandar. And so Bandar, who's skeptical because he knows in the first Gulf War we didn't get Saddam out, so he says to Cheney and Rumsfeld, 'So Saddam this time is gonna be out, period?' And Cheney - who has said nothing - says the following: 'Prince Bandar, once we start, Saddam is toast.'"Because of the fact that the President of the United States was talking about the need for "decisive" military action in Iraq with one of the financiers of "Al-Qaeda" and 9/11, because Prince Bandar also wanted war with Iraq, and because 9/11 was the pretext that enabled the Bush Administration to go into Iraq, that brings up the question of whether or not there was a collaboration between the Bush Administration and Prince Bandar to bring about the 9/11 attacks. It's not a "theory." It's a DAMNED GOOD QUESTION.After all, 10 days after his inauguration at his very first principals meeting, Bush asked his subordinates to "go find me a way" to get into Iraq. One of the FIRST things the Bush Administration did was tell the different alphabet agencies to "BACK OFF" the Saudis and the Bin Ladens, an action that Senator Bob Graham said if true, would be a "very serious charge." It sure seems to be because the famous John O'Neill complained about it. Not to mention the "Visa Express Program" that was implemented before 9/11 which ONLYapplied to Saudi Arabia, and which some of the alleged hijackers took advantage of. Also, according to Richard Clarke, in the months before 9/11, members of the Bush Administration discussed creating a "cassus belli" for war with Iraq. When I asked Richard Clarke on Facebook his opinion on whether or not people in the Bush Administration were capable of such a thing, he said "some of them were." When 9/11 Commissioner John Lehman asked George Bush about Bandar and 9/11, he "dodged the questions," and then went outside and told the world that he "answered every question" they asked. When the 9/11 Commission questioned Bandar, they didn't even bother to ask him about his connections, financial or otherwise, to 9/11.Jacobin recently came out with this article that talks about even more incriminating information concerning Prince Bandar. In it, they cite Thomas Kean. I am FURIOUS that Kean has the gall to feign anger. As if he didn't know about the 9/11 Commission not asking Prince Bandar the tough questions or Bush dodging questions about Bandar.Anyway, I don't believe in the "flip theory." On top of that, I've shown that we had access to one of the most important insiders of "Al-Qaeda" so why the need to "flip" those two hijackers at all (I'm saying that with a sly, angry smile across my face)?Prince Bandar even admitted that Saudi intelligence was "actively following most of the terrorists with precision."He says that "U.S. Security Authorities" never "engaged their Saudi Counterparts in a serious and credible manner" and that's why 9/11 happened, but I wonder if he "engaged" members of the Bush Administration. After all, if you wanted a terrorist attack to take place, Prince Bandar WOULD be the guy to go to. Remember he threatened London with terrorist attacks "unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted." Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was his lawyer at the time. He also sent in terrorists into Syria to try and take out Assad. Because this is the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, I posted that "they're (those responsible) being invited on "Ellen" to promote their book, they're getting apologies from Keith Olbermann. Their history is being rewritten so as to put them on a pedestal instead of the Hague where they belong."Hell yes they do.By the way, isn't it a disgrace that Prince Bandar's daughter is now the Saudi Ambassador to the United States?Also, FOR SOME REASON, Bandar refuses to testify in the lawsuit brought on by the 9/11 Families against Saudi Arabia.This was recently reported on. I don't have a problem with the idea that the CIA and Saudi Arabia were “secretly working hand in glove.” I have a problem with the idea that it was “to recruit Hazmi and Mihdhar as informants.” As I showed above, the Bush Administration already had the PERFECT INSIDER INTO AL-QAEDA. It doesn't get any better than Bandar. Especially when you consider the recent news that Omar al-Bayoumi, someone who helped the alleged hijackers, “reported directly to the longtime Saudi ambassador to the United States (Prince Bandar), a close and long-standing family friend of the US president“ George W. Bush.Something not being reported on by anyone that I can see, on August 3rd, 2011, George Tenet, Cofer Black, and Richard Blee all released a statement that said “Mr. Clarke went on to speculate--which he admits is based on nothing other than his imagination--that the CIA might have been trying to recruit these two future hijackers as agents. This, like much of what Mr. Clarke said in his interview, is utterly without foundation.“Their statement was the result of work done by Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy.As well as my “Damned Good Question” many other questions need to be answered. The families and the people of the world both deserve and require it.Jon's Websitehttps://wewereliedtoabout911.com/(Note From Chuck) Ochelli Link Treehttps://linktr.ee/chuckochelliAbove is the Ochelli Link Tree. Whether you will support this network or not. It doesn't matter what we put in the Notes

EPISODE 86: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Three weeks ago - so quietly it has barely been noticed - the government declassified the 31-page "memorandum for the record" of the 9/11 Commission's 2004 interview with President George W. Bush (2:20) In it, Bush's words are beyond damning - they are confessional. They confirm his dereliction of duty, his culpability, his malfeasance, in the months before 9/11. Bush lied (5:38) about the August 6 President's Daily Briefing (6:58) Bush lied about the only threats being "overseas" (7:53) Bush lied about Al-Qaeda cells in the U.S. (8:23) Bush lied about aircraft as missiles (8:57) Bush lied about being warned about domestic threats (9:30) Bush lied about George Tenet never warning him (10:00) Bush lied about never being told how Al-Qaeda would attack (14:28) Sadly the 9/11 Commissioners never asked Bush about the allegation that he rushed through the August 6 2001 PDB because he wanted to go fishing and told the briefer "All right, you've covered your ass now." That's unfortunate because ALL Bush did in his interview with the Commissioners was try to cover HIS ass. For more than 20 years he's succeeded, but after the declassification of this memorandum, history will conclude two things: Osama Bin Laden attacked America - no one else. And George W. Bush made sure that America was unprepared - no one else. B-Block (19:29) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Lucky in California (20:21) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: McCarthy promises a committee to investigate the 1/6 Committee - IF he can get elected; and after promising no layoffs, CNN's Chris Licht lays off hundreds (22:26) IN SPORTS: How IS Pele? And Don Mattingly's new job and why whenever he sees me he says "That's Mel on the right!" (25:25) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The man who ignored the warning 'never drink while playing Monopoly' and the gullible website Semafor compete with Elon "I Lied About Apple" Musk for the honors. C-Block (29:31) 37 years ago this month I was new in L.A. and on my way to a great interview with baseball immortal Mickey Mantle. That's when I ran into the most elegantly dressed couple I have ever seen in my life. They were fans of my new local sportscast, and they introduced themselves as Joseph and Patricia Carlton. But who WERE they and why he look SO familiar? An amazing explanation in "Things I Promised Not To Tell."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Lev and Derek dissect the career of the most incompetent intelligence chief of all time (George Tenet) and look into the scandal that nearly ruined the legacy of the Paralympic Games (the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games Spanish Men's Paralympic Basketball Team) Now in Video Podcast format Support us on Patreon Visit our Instagram Or our Twitter Hosts: Lev & Derek https://linktr.ee/Lev_Myskin https://linktr.ee/ThatEffnGuy Artist: Sarah Chey https://www.fiverr.com/sarahchey Circus Man by Jeris (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/37243 Ft: A.M. mews by MommaLuv SKyTower --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historysgreatestidiots/support

In this episode, Lev and Derek dissect the career of the most incompetent intelligence chief of all time (George Tenet) and look into the scandal that nearly ruined the legacy of the Paralympic Games (the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games Spanish Men's Paralympic Basketball Team) Now in Video Podcast format Support us on Patreon Visit our Instagram Or our Twitter Hosts: Lev & Derek https://linktr.ee/Lev_Myskin https://linktr.ee/ThatEffnGuy Artist: Sarah Chey https://www.fiverr.com/sarahchey Circus Man by Jeris (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/37243 Ft: A.M. mews by MommaLuv SKyTower --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historysgreatestidiots/support

Lindsay Moran is a former clandestine officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. She is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today. In 2005, she published her memoir Blowing My Cover, My Life As A Spy, in which she wrote about her experiences as a case officer from 1998 to 2003. After graduating from Harvard and submitting an application that included her language skills and her time living in Eastern Europe as a Fulbright scholar, Moran was recruited to work for the CIA. She began her orientation in the Directorate of Operations (DO), the clandestine branch of the Agency, after which she was sent to "The Farm", the field academy for clandestine officers. at a base Her year of training included paramilitary exercises, mock ambushes, parachute jumps, car crashes, and driving powerboats.  She completed the training course in December 1999, a year after the CIA's director George Tenet declared war on Al-Qaeda.  After graduating from "The Farm", Moran was deployed under the official cover of a foreign diplomat. As a case officer for the CIA, Moran's primary job was to spot, assess, develop, and recruit foreigners willing to sell secrets, as well as maintaining the agents who were already under her control. Her interest in spy work gradually diminished because of the pressure her career had put on her personal life, and her growing disillusionment with the CIA's bureaucracy, especially after the September 11th attacks.  She was also disappointed with the agency itself since she felt that her career advancement as a case officer, in general, depended not so much on the quality of agents that she recruited, but rather on the quantity. The more recruits they had, the better. Disapproving of the war in Iraq, she worked on the Iraq desk at headquarters during the Iraq invasion and resigned from the CIA after five years there.

The shocking reexamination of the failures of US government officials to use available intelligence to stop the attack on American on September 11, 2001. “The authors lay bare…an intelligence failure of historic proportions.”—John Kiriakou, former CIA officer, author, The Convenient TerroristIn 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counterterror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. In the meeting, Clarke boldly accused one-time Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet of “malfeasance and misfeasance” in the pre-war on terror. Thus began an incredible—never-before-told—investigative journey of intrigue about America's intelligence community and two 9/11 hijackers.The Watchdogs Didn't Bark details that story, unearthed over a ten-year investigation. Following the careers of a dozen counterterror employees working in different agencies of the US government from the late 1980s to the present, the book puts the government's systems of oversight and accountability under a microscope. At the heart of this book is a mystery: Why did key 9/11 plotters Khalid Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi, operating inside the United States, fall onto the radars of so many US agencies without any of those agencies succeeding in stopping the attacks?The answers go beyond mere “conspiracy theory” and “deep state” actors, but instead find a complicated set of potential culprits and an easily manipulated system. Taking readers on a character-driven account of the causes of 9/11 and how the lessons of the attacks were cynically inverted to empower surveillance of citizens, kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, torture, government-sanctioned murder, and a war on whistleblowers and journalists, an alarm is raised which is more pertinent today than ever before.Read less

The shocking reexamination of the failures of US government officials to use available intelligence to stop the attack on American on September 11, 2001. “The authors lay bare…an intelligence failure of historic proportions.”—John Kiriakou, former CIA officer, author, The Convenient Terrorist In 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counterterror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. In the meeting, Clarke boldly accused one-time Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet of “malfeasance and misfeasance” in the pre-war on terror. Thus began an incredible—never-before-told—investigative journey of intrigue about America's intelligence community and two 9/11 hijackers. The Watchdogs Didn't Bark details that story, unearthed over a ten-year investigation. Following the careers of a dozen counterterror employees working in different agencies of the US government from the late 1980s to the present, the book puts the government's systems of oversight and accountability under a microscope. At the heart of this book is a mystery: Why did key 9/11 plotters Khalid Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi, operating inside the United States, fall onto the radars of so many US agencies without any of those agencies succeeding in stopping the attacks? The answers go beyond mere “conspiracy theory” and “deep state” actors, but instead find a complicated set of potential culprits and an easily manipulated system. Taking readers on a character-driven account of the causes of 9/11 and how the lessons of the attacks were cynically inverted to empower surveillance of citizens, kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, torture, government-sanctioned murder, and a war on whistleblowers and journalists, an alarm is raised which is more pertinent today than ever before. Read less

The shocking reexamination of the failures of US government officials to use available intelligence to stop the attack on American on September 11, 2001. “The authors lay bare…an intelligence failure of historic proportions.”—John Kiriakou, former CIA officer, author, The Convenient Terrorist In 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counterterror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. In the meeting, Clarke boldly accused one-time Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet of “malfeasance and misfeasance” in the pre-war on terror. Thus began an incredible—never-before-told—investigative journey of intrigue about America's intelligence community and two 9/11 hijackers. The Watchdogs Didn't Bark details that story, unearthed over a ten-year investigation. Following the careers of a dozen counterterror employees working in different agencies of the US government from the late 1980s to the present, the book puts the government's systems of oversight and accountability under a microscope. At the heart of this book is a mystery: Why did key 9/11 plotters Khalid Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi, operating inside the United States, fall onto the radars of so many US agencies without any of those agencies succeeding in stopping the attacks? The answers go beyond mere “conspiracy theory” and “deep state” actors, but instead find a complicated set of potential culprits and an easily manipulated system. Taking readers on a character-driven account of the causes of 9/11 and how the lessons of the attacks were cynically inverted to empower surveillance of citizens, kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, torture, government-sanctioned murder, and a war on whistleblowers and journalists, an alarm is raised which is more pertinent today than ever before. Read less

The shocking reexamination of the failures of US government officials to use available intelligence to stop the attack on American on September 11, 2001. “The authors lay bare…an intelligence failure of historic proportions.”—John Kiriakou, former CIA officer, author, The Convenient Terrorist In 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counterterror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. In the meeting, Clarke boldly accused one-time Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet of “malfeasance and misfeasance” in the pre-war on terror. Thus began an incredible—never-before-told—investigative journey of intrigue about America's intelligence community and two 9/11 hijackers. The Watchdogs Didn't Bark details that story, unearthed over a ten-year investigation. Following the careers of a dozen counterterror employees working in different agencies of the US government from the late 1980s to the present, the book puts the government's systems of oversight and accountability under a microscope. At the heart of this book is a mystery: Why did key 9/11 plotters Khalid Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi, operating inside the United States, fall onto the radars of so many US agencies without any of those agencies succeeding in stopping the attacks? The answers go beyond mere “conspiracy theory” and “deep state” actors, but instead find a complicated set of potential culprits and an easily manipulated system. Taking readers on a character-driven account of the causes of 9/11 and how the lessons of the attacks were cynically inverted to empower surveillance of citizens, kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, torture, government-sanctioned murder, and a war on whistleblowers and journalists, an alarm is raised which is more pertinent today than ever before. Read less

The shocking reexamination of the failures of US government officials to use available intelligence to stop the attack on American on September 11, 2001. “The authors lay bare…an intelligence failure of historic proportions.”—John Kiriakou, former CIA officer, author, The Convenient Terrorist In 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counterterror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. In the meeting, Clarke boldly accused one-time Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet of “malfeasance and misfeasance” in the pre-war on terror. Thus began an incredible—never-before-told—investigative journey of intrigue about America's intelligence community and two 9/11 hijackers. The Watchdogs Didn't Bark details that story, unearthed over a ten-year investigation. Following the careers of a dozen counterterror employees working in different agencies of the US government from the late 1980s to the present, the book puts the government's systems of oversight and accountability under a microscope. At the heart of this book is a mystery: Why did key 9/11 plotters Khalid Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi, operating inside the United States, fall onto the radars of so many US agencies without any of those agencies succeeding in stopping the attacks? The answers go beyond mere “conspiracy theory” and “deep state” actors, but instead find a complicated set of potential culprits and an easily manipulated system. Taking readers on a character-driven account of the causes of 9/11 and how the lessons of the attacks were cynically inverted to empower surveillance of citizens, kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, torture, government-sanctioned murder, and a war on whistleblowers and journalists, an alarm is raised which is more pertinent today than ever before. Read less

The shocking reexamination of the failures of US government officials to use available intelligence to stop the attack on American on September 11, 2001. “The authors lay bare…an intelligence failure of historic proportions.”—John Kiriakou, former CIA officer, author, The Convenient TerroristIn 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counterterror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. In the meeting, Clarke boldly accused one-time Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet of “malfeasance and misfeasance” in the pre-war on terror. Thus began an incredible—never-before-told—investigative journey of intrigue about America's intelligence community and two 9/11 hijackers.The Watchdogs Didn't Bark details that story, unearthed over a ten-year investigation. Following the careers of a dozen counterterror employees working in different agencies of the US government from the late 1980s to the present, the book puts the government's systems of oversight and accountability under a microscope. At the heart of this book is a mystery: Why did key 9/11 plotters Khalid Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi, operating inside the United States, fall onto the radars of so many US agencies without any of those agencies succeeding in stopping the attacks?The answers go beyond mere “conspiracy theory” and “deep state” actors, but instead find a complicated set of potential culprits and an easily manipulated system. Taking readers on a character-driven account of the causes of 9/11 and how the lessons of the attacks were cynically inverted to empower surveillance of citizens, kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, torture, government-sanctioned murder, and a war on whistleblowers and journalists, an alarm is raised which is more pertinent today than ever before.Read less

Truly a phenomenally funny human with more talent in her pinky the most of us have in our entire body. Shelly Goldstein was a great guest and she came packed with stories layered with experience wit and charm that it was impossible to not have a good time on this one. Enjoy!   Shelly Goldstein is a writer-performer who has written for every genre of TV, film and stage. Her one-woman shows play to sell-out crowds throughout the US and UK and she recently wrote the comedy special WAIT! WAIT! DON'T KILL ME & performed in it with Lily Tomlin, Pete Holmes, Kevin Nealon & Margaret Cho. She created the sitcom BINGO with Bruce Vilanch and was Script Consultant & lyricist on Liongate's UK/European series, COLD COURAGE. Her song “England's White Rose” is on the Sony Soundtrack CD. She wrote the Emmy winning PBS musical special, CHICAGO VOICES. Her lyric ILLINOIS was sung by the Chicago Gay Men's Chorus in the documentary LINCOLN IS CRYING.   She has written (or re-written) sitcoms, dramas, screenplays, lyrics, docus, animation, award shows, jokes & special material for (partial list) Stephen Colbert, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Sacha Baron Cohen, Pete Holmes, Sharon Stone, Jay Leno, Regina King, Tiffany Haddish, Barbra Streisand, Hugh Jackman, Leslie Odom Jr., Chris Pratt, rocker Joe Walsh, Larry Wilmore, Danny Trejo, Daveed Diggs, Kal Penn, Carol Burnett, J Lo, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, Laurence Fishburne, Jane Fonda, Isaiah Mustafa, Conan O'Brien, Chris Martin, Dick Van Dyke, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Diane Keaton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Henry Winkler, Robin Roberts, Quincy Jones, Demi Moore, Al Roker, Michael McKean, Eric McCormack, Cindy Crawford, Kaia Gerber, Phil Rosenthal, Norman Lear, Prince Albert & Princess Charlene of Monaco, George Tenet and Yoko Ono. SHOW LESS

Ngày 11/09/2001, nước Mỹ rung chuyển vì loạt tấn công khủng bố thảm khốc nhất trong lịch sử đất nước. Gần 3.000 người chết và hơn 6.000 người bị thương. Hai mươi năm sau, dư chấn vẫn còn đó, và người ta vẫn tự hỏi : Làm thế nào một kiểu khủng bố như vậy lại có thể xảy ra tại Hoa Kỳ, một cường quốc quân sự hàng đầu thế giới ? 11/9/2001: « Cứ như một trận Trân Châu Cảng ! » Đó là một ngày thứ Ba định mệnh trong lịch sử nước Mỹ đương đại. Trong vòng chưa đầy hai tiếng, 19 tên khủng bố chiếm lấy 4 chiếc máy bay hàng không dân dụng Mỹ, tiến hành loạt tấn công tại ba điểm khác nhau : Tòa tháp đôi của World Trade Center ở New York, Lầu Năm Góc – trụ sở bộ Quốc Phòng Mỹ - và Shanksville tại Pennsylvania. Tấn thảm kịch này đã cướp đi 2.977 sinh mạng. Riêng tại tòa tháp đôi, con  số tử vong là 2.753 người, trong đó có 343 lính cứu hỏa và 60 cảnh sát, nhưng chỉ có 1.643 người là được nhận dạng.   Cả thế giới chấn động. Nước Mỹ bị tấn công. Cứ như một Trân Châu Cảng. Tổng thống Mỹ George W. Bush trên chiếc Air Force One rời Florida đến căn cứ quân sự Andrews ở ngoại ô Washington, khi quan sát Lầu Năm Góc từ trên cao, đã thốt lên : « Đây mới chính là diện mạo của cuộc chiến thế kỷ XXI ! ». Vì sao nước Mỹ - một cường quốc hàng đầu thế giới về quân sự cũng như là kinh tế lại không thể dự báo và ngăn chặn được cuộc tấn công thảm khốc đó ? Trong cuộc điều tra đặc biệt nhân kỷ niệm 20 năm tấn thảm kịch này, nhà báo Gregory Philipps của đài France Inter, qua các cuộc gặp gỡ với nhiều cựu nhân viên an ninh, tình báo Mỹ và một số chuyên gia Pháp, ghi nhận cả một hệ thống kẽ hở trong ngành an ninh, tình báo Mỹ vào thời điểm đó.   Al Qaida: Những chỉ dấu báo động đỏ Nhà báo nhắc lại, ba năm sau biến cố lịch sử này, năm 2004, ông Philip Zelikow, trong bản báo cáo của ủy ban điều tra Nghị Viện đã nêu rõ hai điểm yếu ngành an ninh Mỹ : Cuộc chiến chống khủng bố trước ngày 11/9 chỉ là một ưu tiên hạng ba đối với giới chức an ninh quốc gia và việc bảo vệ không phận Mỹ trong ngày bị tấn công chỉ được thiết lập một cách vội vã.  Điều khó hiểu là trước khi xảy ra vụ tấn công, đã có nhiều chỉ dấu báo động đỏ mối đe dọa khủng bố. Ngay từ giữa những năm 1990, Al Qaida, đặc biệt là Oussama Ben Laden, người thành lập tổ chức khủng bố này, đã nằm trong tầm ngắm của tình báo Mỹ. Nhiều vụ đánh bom tự sát được cho là do Al Qaida thực hiện nhắm vào người Mỹ và những cơ quan đại diện lợi ích Mỹ ở nhiều nơi trên thế giới, đã xảy ra trong suốt giai đoạn này. Cụ thể:  Vụ khủng bố ở tầng hầm parking của World Trade Center năm 1993 làm 6 người chết, hơn 100 người bị thương.  Tháng Giêng năm 1995, an ninh Philippines phá vỡ âm mưu chuyển hướng hàng chục máy bay dân dụng của Mỹ trên Thái Bình Dương của Al Qaida, còn được gọi là « chiến dịch Bojinka ».  Năm 1996, vụ tấn công khủng bố tại khu phức hợp dân cư Dahran ở Ả Rập Xê Út làm 20 người chết, trong đó hết 19 người là công dân Mỹ, 400 người bị thương.   Ngày 07/08/1998, cuộc tấn công khủng bố kép nhắm vào hai tòa đại sứ Mỹ, một ở Nairobi, Kenya và một ở Dar es Salaam, Tanzania đã làm 224 người thiệt mạng, trong đó có 12 công dân Mỹ.  Trong tầm ngắm Ali Soufan, cựu điều tra viên của FBI, một trong số những người đầu tiên gióng chuông báo động ngay từ năm 1996 về mối đe dọa Al Qaida nhớ lại : « FBI đã bắt đầu theo dõi Al Qaida khá sớm. Từ năm 1996, 1997, chúng tôi đã chú ý đến Ben Laden. Vào thời điểm đó, nhiều người trong cơ quan tình báo kể cả bên an ninh liên bang chỉ nghĩ rằng Ben Laden là một nhà tài trợ, chứ không nghĩ là nhân vật này có khả năng chuyển sang cả hành động.  Tháng 8/1996, ông ta tuyên bố thánh chiến chống nước Mỹ. Chúng tôi nghĩ là nghiêm trọng, nhưng nhiều người khác thì không. Tháng 2/1998, ông ta phát ra một lệnh fatwa kêu gọi hạ sát người Mỹ ở bất kỳ nơi nào trên thế giới. Chúng tôi thực sự tin rằng việc này là nghiêm trọng, đến mức ngầm kết án vắng mặt Ben Laden vào tháng 6/1998. » Về điểm này, ông Philip Zelikow, có giải thích thêm như sau : « Quả thật những kẻ thực hiện vụ khủng bố ngày 11/9 đã tuyên chiến với nước Mỹ bằng một bản fax gởi đến Luân Đôn vào đầu năm 1998. Bức fax này đến từ một nhóm bí ẩn, nằm ở một nơi kém phát triển nhất của thế giới, ở phía nam Afghanistan. Trong suốt năm 2001, chúng tôi đã suy nghĩ nhiều : Nhóm khủng bố này làm gì ở Afghanistan ? Nhưng ý tưởng nước Mỹ đến xâm chiếm Afghanistan để bắt lấy những kẻ đó trước năm 2001 là điều không thể nhắm đến ! » Những kẽ hở Sau vụ tấn công này, nhiều câu hỏi được đặt ra. 19 tên khủng bố đó là ai ? Vì sao chúng không bị theo dõi ? Tại sao thông tin đồng phạm Mohammed Atta, từ Hambourg (Đức) đến Mỹ vào đầu mùa hè năm 2000, để học lái máy bay tại nhiều trường khác nhau Florida, Arizona và Minnesota đã không được chuyển đến Washington ? Trả lời câu hỏi nhà báo Gregory Philipps, nhà nghiên cứu, chuyên gia về các mạng lưới thánh chiến, ông Dominique Thomas, thuộc trường EHSS, đưa ra các nhận định : « Trước hết, một trong những lỗ hổng lớn của hệ thống dân chủ là tình trạng quan liêu, đôi khi còn thiếu cả sự phối hợp giữa các ban ngành khác nhau. Quý vị có thể có đủ hết các mảng ghép nhưng chúng lại nằm rải rác ở nhiều bộ phận khác nhau, và không có sự liên thông hay kết nối tồi (…)  Hơn nữa, tôi nghĩ rằng vào thời điểm đó, cơ quan FBI có quá ít chuyên gia đủ khả năng phân tích các mối đe dọa. Nếu như chúng ta không có người thạo tiếng Ả Rập, những người nắm rõ khu vực này, hiểu được hệ tư tưởng, cách nói chuyện, tâm lý của những nhân vật đó, thì đương nhiên quý vị thất bại trong cuộc chiến này thôi ! »  Ali Soufan là một ví dụ điển hình. Là người đầu tiên xác định được danh tính của Khaled Cheikh Mohammed, kẻ chủ mưu của loạt tấn công thảm khốc, nhưng Ali Soufan là một trong số hiếm hoi các nhà điều tra của FBI nói thạo tiếng Ả Rập, vì có gốc người Liban. Tình trạng này cũng xảy ra tương tự ở CIA. Ông nhìn nhận sự hiểu biết về ngôn ngữ và văn hóa là điều cốt lõi trong cuộc chiến chống khủng bố.  Chống khủng bố: Ưu tiên hạng ba, thất bại to lớn Bên cạnh việc thiếu hiểu biết về thế giới Ả Rập, thiếu sự liên thông giữa các ban ngành, báo cáo của ông Philip Zelikow cho ủy ban điều tra nghị viện Mỹ còn nêu rõ trách nhiệm của ngành tình báo Mỹ trước ngày 11/9, chưa bao giờ xem xét nghiêm túc mối họa khủng bố. Cuộc chiến chống khủng bố chỉ là ưu tiên thứ yếu của an ninh Mỹ thời đó, theo như giải thích của ông Mathhew Levitt, chuyên gia về chống khủng bố, với nhà báo Gregory Philipps.  « Giờ nghĩ lại người ta chợt nhận thấy có điều gì không ổn, khó tin và cảm thấy đau đớn. Vào lúc đó có quá nhiều thông tin để xử lý, các nhân viên an ninh làm việc như điên. Nhưng bộ phận chống khủng bố ở FBI lúc ấy bị ví như là thùng nấu quần áo, đó không phải là nơi để họ thăng tiến. Hoạt động chính của FBI là tập trung nhiều vào các vụ án hình sự. Làm việc cho bộ phận chống khủng bố, gián điệp thật sự không mấy gì được xướng tên trên bảng vàng. Phần lớn thời gian họ chẳng bắt được ai. Ngày nay, khi nói đến khủng bố là người ta nghĩ đến cả một mẻ lưới. Nhưng đó là một hiện tượng hậu 11/9 ».  Nhìn từ khía cạnh này, bà Valerie Plame, một cựu sĩ quan CIA, đánh giá : « Đây thật sự là một thất bại to lớn của các cơ quan tình báo Mỹ. Đó chẳng qua là do thiếu chút suy nghĩ về việc làm thế nào vụ khủng bố này có thể xảy ra. Loạt khủng bố này không tốn kém nhiều chi phí (khoảng nửa triệu đô la), chẳng cần nhiều sự huấn luyện (hai năm chuẩn bị). Những tên khủng bố này lại thoát được tầm theo dõi của FBI, cơ quan lẽ ra có trách nhiệm phải giám sát những đối tượng này.  Rồi CIA cũng có cả những thông tin nhập cảnh vào Mỹ của những nghi phạm này nữa. Làm thế nào chúng có thể thoát được sự giám sát đó ? Người ta đã phớt lờ các dấu vết của FBI. Họ đã phí quá nhiều thời gian, sức lực và năng lượng để tìm kiếm một sự mưu phản. Nhưng làm gì có sự mưu phản nào. Đó chẳng qua là sự chểnh mảng, lơ là của Mỹ mà thôi ! »  Gregory Philipps lưu ý, trước năm 2001, mối đe dọa khủng bố này được cho là « xa vời » đến mức người ta có thể mang theo cả dao rọc giấy hay một con dao nhỏ kích cỡ chưa tới 10 cm trong hành lý mà không phải lo lắng gì. Thậm chí, người thân có thể đưa hành khách đến tận cửa lên máy bay. Trước ngày 11/9, FAA – Cục Hàng không Liên bang Mỹ công bố một danh sách đen cấm một số người đáp máy bay, nhưng danh sách này chỉ có 12 tên, trong đó Cheikh Mohammed, một trong số đầu não của loạt khủng bố này.  Ben Laden và 10 năm truy nã Đương nhiên, lãnh đạo CIA lúc bấy giờ là George Tenet đã được báo động, Richard Clark – cố vấn an ninh quốc gia của tổng thống Bush có gióng chuông báo động về mối họa khủng bố Al Qaida. Dù vậy, những tên khủng bố « nằm vùng » trên đất Mỹ lại không được cảm nhận như là mối đe dọa quan trọng. Vì sao như vậy ? Ông Andrew Card, chánh văn phòng Nhà Trắng thời kỳ đó giải thích :  « Tổng thống Bush đã làm những gì ông ấy nên làm. Tôi đã đọc lại tất cả những bản báo cáo tình báo mà ông ấy đã xem qua. Và tôi còn nhớ có một bản báo cáo gây tranh cãi được đệ trình lên hồi tháng 8/2001, báo động rằng Al Qaida đang chuẩn bị làm điều gì đó với Ben Laden. Rồi sau đó cũng có lời đáp : Đúng vậy, họ muốn tấn công nước Mỹ nhưng không ai có thể dự đoán chính xác ngày xảy ra vụ khủng bố.  Ai có thể có được câu trả lời đúng ? Liệu chúng tôi có thể nào cấm các máy bay cất cánh trong ngày 11/9 hay không ? Giờ thì chúng ta biết được là những tên khủng bố đó đã khởi động vụ tấn công này trước đó vài ngày. Như vậy là chúng tôi đã có những thông tin sai và do vậy chúng tôi đã chọn nhầm ngày để chặn các chuyến bay. Giả như chúng tôi có cấm các chuyến bay trong ngày đó, trong vòng một tuần hay một tháng, điều đó sẽ tàn phá kinh tế đất nước. Quốc Hội rất có thể sẽ chất vấn chúng tôi : Các ông đang làm điều gì vậy ? Các ông không thể đóng cửa kinh tế đất nước như thế. Giờ thì chúng tôi hiểu rằng lẽ ra chúng tôi đã phải làm điều gì đó ! »  Sau vụ khủng bố này, quyền hạn của các cơ quan tình báo đã được mở rộng. Hơn 262 cơ quan liên bang đã được lập ra hay được điều chỉnh lại. Hơn 850 ngàn nhân viên được tuyển dụng tại Mỹ trong lĩnh vực thu thập tình báo có nguy cơ biến hệ thống này còn trở nên quan liêu hơn và khó thể kiểm soát.   Một điều hiển nhiên là các cơ quan an ninh Mỹ đã không thể phá vỡ vụ khủng bố ngày 11/09/2001. Và họ cũng đã phải mất đến 10 năm sau mới tìm ra được kẻ chủ mưu thực sự của loạt khủng bố này : Oussama Ben Laden ! 

  Ray McGinnis is a Canadian author Ray's new book Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored: Paperback, Kindle How Ray got interested in the 9/11 case Book: Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow by Kristen Breitweiser: Hardcover, Kindle, Audiobook FREE Borrowable Ebook: Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow by Kristen Breitweiser Henry Kissinger was supposed to head the 9/11 commission The 9/11 commission began its investigation on a budget of 3 million USD 80 million USD was spent to investigate the Bill Clinton-Lewisnky affair and whitewater The 9/11 Family Steering Committee's (FSC) website: www.911independentcommission.org The list of the questions that went unanswered Book: The Terror Timeline by Paul Thompson: Paperback How the FSC came into being FREE Borrowable Ebook: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass 8 of the 19 alleged terrorists were found to be alive AFTER the attacks The Taliban wanted to hand over Bin Laden to the Hague (ICC) if the US produced evidence of his guilt The reluctance of the Bush administration to investigate the 9/11 attacks Video: The collapse of WTC Building 7 Video: 9/11: The Toronto Hearings Minutes after the first plane hit the north tower, CIA Director (during 9/11) George Tenet called it a "terrorist attack" And yet, he did not notify the New York Port Authority (PA) "You're safe in the building. Remain seated, or you could be fired" - PA announcement during the attacks 9/11 Commission vice-chairman Lee Hamilton was a close friend of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld The conflicts of interests with the chairman Thomas Kean Philip Zelikow was appointed as the executive director of the 9/11 commission by Kean and Hamilton Zelikow wrote the paper on preemptive war against Iraq Zelikow and Ernest May wrote an outline report prior to the first public hearing on Mar 31, 2003 Ernest May was the seniour counsel of the 9/11 commission Suspicious trading of "put" options on United Airlines stock before the attacks of 9/11 Why was it that the radar wasn't tracking the aircrafts? Why didn't NORAD scramble fighter jets to intercept the aircrafts? All civilian aircrafts were grounded after the attacks But an exception was made for the Bin Laden family Richard Clarke said that it was he who recommended that the Bin Laden family be flown out of America Documentary: 9/11 War Games by James Corbett There is no mention of Building 7 (WTC7) in the 9/11 commission report The FSC asked the 9/11 commission to find out about reports of explosions Most first responders were asked to testify before the 9/11 commission Video: 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory (James Corbett) Bush and Cheney testified in secret and they were not under oath 9/11 commission report was inviting Americans to engage in a national relish for fantasy (Benjamin Demott) "We always said if there are conspiracy theories out there then it is the government's fault because they did not ever really explain, or show, or want us to know what happened" - Lorie Van Auken Book: Conspiracy Theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle, Audiobook News: Spike Lee Removes Conspiracists From HBO 9/11 Series After Criticism Bush signed a national directive to go to war in Afghanistan on Sept 9th, 2001 Documentary: 9/11: Press for Truth Documentary: In Their Own Words: The Untold Stories of the 9/11 Families FREE Download Ebook: Fortunate: A Personal Diary of 9/11 by Janette Mackinlay Here's a great place to start your 9/11 reading/research Max Cleland resigned from the 9/11 commission in 2003 Ray's Website: www.unansweredquestions.ca Facebook page of the book Ray McGinnis' twitter profile Part B: Doug Horne; beginning at 1:14:18

https://mediaroots.org/ Since 2010, siblings and journalists Abby Martin and Robbie Martin have been doing Media Roots Radio, a political podcast with a critical eye on US foreign policy, political partisanship and what people can do to fight back. Conversational, controversial, passionate and explicit, Media Roots stands apart from the majority of podcasts coming from a similar point of view. ----- https://watchdogsbark.com/ In 2009, documentarians Duffy and Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counter-terror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. There, for the first time, Clarke boldly accused his friend and one-time Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet of “malfeasance and misfeasance” in the pre-war on terrorism. Thus began an incredible—never-before-told—investigative journey of intrigue into how the fall-out from a covert decision within America's intelligence community about two future September 11th hijackers may have come to secretly define the terror wars and launched a “war on whistleblowers.” Audio taken from: https://soundcloud.com/media-roots/the-watchdogs-didnt-bark-interview-w-john-duffy-ray-nowosielski

It's about 2.5 hours + long... we discuss a lot of shyte including George Tenet loves Awlaki, blind & deaf JTACS for @jtarticle15, @dianadeathofficial, Gran Torino, Divesity4all... & a lot more over booze.

To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ----------- We’re joined by Alex Rubinstein to talk about the leaked phone call between CIA director George Tenet and former President of Yemen Saleh—allegedly pressuring Saleh to release Anwar Al-Awlaki. realalexrubi.substack.com/p/leaked-cia-pressured-yemen-to-release

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! In The Airbnb Story, Leigh Gallagher details the unlikely story of two lax bros fresh out of RISD knocking on heavens door for angel investors. With the simple concept of classing up websites like Craigslist and Couch-surfing, Gebbia and Chesky corralled a $100B evaluation within twelve years now employing over 6,000 people. These two entrepreneurial mates raised a baby together detailing every step of its spree into adulthood. Hiring their first engineer was like designing the DNA for the company as the two aim to be a tier one tech company like Apple. After surviving the staggering infant mortality rate of small business they were onto the investors launchpad then shot into the stratosphere. Airbnb declared victory in its firefight of publicity when Obama showered them with compliments to a Cuban business relations committee. Even with black Jesus’s blessing, the onslaught of civic attacks continue as lawmakers create “minimum conference room” laws for hotels to extort higher margins from the company. So ya like bureaucratic overreach? Leigh drops some insider info on Airbnb’s mandatory CIA partnership with former director George Tenet to monitor cultural influence. Order more towels, soak in the tub and enjoy the pursuit of two men who wont take no for an answer in a game rigged against them from the start. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 00:30 Introduction 03:20 About the Author 05:10 Ch1: The Hustle 13:10 Ch2: Building a Company 19:30 Ch3: Airbnb Nation 24:20 Ch4: The Bad & The Ugly 32:30 Ch5: SwampBnb 40:10 Ch6: Hospitality Disrupted 44:50 Ch7: Learning to Lead 49:15 Ch8 What’s Next? 57:10 Next Time & Goodbye YouTube: https://youtu.be/C3n2Xfb5YRw iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nicks-non-fiction/id1450771426

From Chris Whipple, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, comes a highly anticipated book, the most thorough and illuminating portrait ever of America's CIA directors-based on extensive interviews with the directors themselves-those upon whom the country depends to prevent another 9/11, or even a deadly pandemic. Epic in scope, spanning seven decades of intelligence gathering, espionage and covert warfare, and intimate in detail, featuring indelible portraits of the directors, this is the definitive story of the men-and, currently, the woman-who keep the secrets-The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future (Scribner, on-sale: September 15, 2020; $30.00/hardcover). What's the proper relationship between the CIA director and the president? Should directors obey illegal orders? How important is the director's role as the nation's honest broker of information during times of crisis? What's the truth about Gina Haspel's involvement in the brutal interrogations at a CIA "black site" in Thailand? And how, as director, does she manage Donald Trump, who famously rejects intelligence that conflicts with his beliefs? Through exclusive, unvarnished, and eye-opening interviews with former CIA directors and other top U.S. intelligence officials, including George Tenet, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, and David Petraeus, The Spymasters answers these questions and more, offering inside stories behind our country's greatest intelligence coups and blunders: . Was the coronavirus pandemic Donald Trump's preventable 9/11? The epilogue of The Spymasters reveals new details about the intelligence community's warnings about the emerging COVID-19 threat, and President Trump's failure to heed them. In January 2020, as the virus was spreading in the U.S., Trump's intelligence briefings-a daily occurrence for most presidents-had almost completely broken down. Throughout January, Trump was briefed not two or three times a week, as had become usual for him, but once a week. Items about the pandemic appeared regularly in the President's Daily Brief (PDB)-but Trump did not bother to read it. Moreover, Trump was, for all intents and purposes, unbrief-able. Convinced that the intelligence community was a deep state, honeycombed with traitors, the president rarely believed anything the CIA told him. Against this backdrop, the COVID-19 pandemic arrived with horns honking and sirens blaring. Tens of thousands of lives depended on quick action-yet Trump looked the other way. Why is it so difficult for CIA directors to convince presidents of what they don't want to hear? . Trump's difficulty understanding security briefings. In The Spymasters, a senior intelligence official described trying to brief the president: "We were talking about surveilling domestic terrorism suspects, and at some point he just said, 'Why wouldn't we just deport them?' And we had to say, 'Well, we're talking about people who are U.S. citizens, sir. So no, deporting them isn't really an option.'" . Gina Haspel's unlikely journey from shadowy covert operative to CIA Director, and how she earned the confidence of Donald Trump. But can she stand up to him? . Russia's massive interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election-despite Donald Trump's continuing effort to deny the plot's existence. The Spymasters details John Brennan's discovery of the plot, James Clapper's conclusion that it tipped the election to Trump, and the Obama administration's efforts to combat Russia's covert campaign-which were stymied by Republican antipathy toward President Obama. . The untold story of the CIA's biggest manhunt ever. The never-before-reported account of the agency's botched attempt to capture Hezbollah's operational mastermind. And new details about the joint Mossad-CIA covert operation that finally succeeded in eliminating "the Scarlet Pimpernel" of terrorism in 2008. . The failure of George W. Bush's White House to heed the CIA's urgent warnings of an imminent Al Qaeda attack prior to 9/11, sounded during a dramatic July 10, 2001 meeting with Condoleezza Rice. And how, by failing to take a simple action, the administration missed an opportunity to unravel the 9/11 plot. Sweeping, illuminating, and rivetingly told, The Spymasters offers the most revealing look yet inside the CIA's wilderness of mirrors.

From Chris Whipple, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, comes a highly anticipated book, the most thorough and illuminating portrait ever of America's CIA directors-based on extensive interviews with the directors themselves-those upon whom the country depends to prevent another 9/11, or even a deadly pandemic. Epic in scope, spanning seven decades of intelligence gathering, espionage and covert warfare, and intimate in detail, featuring indelible portraits of the directors, this is the definitive story of the men-and, currently, the woman-who keep the secrets-The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future (Scribner, on-sale: September 15, 2020; $30.00/hardcover). What's the proper relationship between the CIA director and the president? Should directors obey illegal orders? How important is the director's role as the nation's honest broker of information during times of crisis? What's the truth about Gina Haspel's involvement in the brutal interrogations at a CIA "black site" in Thailand? And how, as director, does she manage Donald Trump, who famously rejects intelligence that conflicts with his beliefs? Through exclusive, unvarnished, and eye-opening interviews with former CIA directors and other top U.S. intelligence officials, including George Tenet, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, and David Petraeus, The Spymasters answers these questions and more, offering inside stories behind our country's greatest intelligence coups and blunders: . Was the coronavirus pandemic Donald Trump's preventable 9/11? The epilogue of The Spymasters reveals new details about the intelligence community's warnings about the emerging COVID-19 threat, and President Trump's failure to heed them. In January 2020, as the virus was spreading in the U.S., Trump's intelligence briefings-a daily occurrence for most presidents-had almost completely broken down. Throughout January, Trump was briefed not two or three times a week, as had become usual for him, but once a week. Items about the pandemic appeared regularly in the President's Daily Brief (PDB)-but Trump did not bother to read it. Moreover, Trump was, for all intents and purposes, unbrief-able. Convinced that the intelligence community was a deep state, honeycombed with traitors, the president rarely believed anything the CIA told him. Against this backdrop, the COVID-19 pandemic arrived with horns honking and sirens blaring. Tens of thousands of lives depended on quick action-yet Trump looked the other way. Why is it so difficult for CIA directors to convince presidents of what they don't want to hear? . Trump's difficulty understanding security briefings. In The Spymasters, a senior intelligence official described trying to brief the president: "We were talking about surveilling domestic terrorism suspects, and at some point he just said, 'Why wouldn't we just deport them?' And we had to say, 'Well, we're talking about people who are U.S. citizens, sir. So no, deporting them isn't really an option.'" . Gina Haspel's unlikely journey from shadowy covert operative to CIA Director, and how she earned the confidence of Donald Trump. But can she stand up to him? . Russia's massive interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election-despite Donald Trump's continuing effort to deny the plot's existence. The Spymasters details John Brennan's discovery of the plot, James Clapper's conclusion that it tipped the election to Trump, and the Obama administration's efforts to combat Russia's covert campaign-which were stymied by Republican antipathy toward President Obama. . The untold story of the CIA's biggest manhunt ever. The never-before-reported account of the agency's botched attempt to capture Hezbollah's operational mastermind. And new details about the joint Mossad-CIA covert operation that finally succeeded in eliminating "the Scarlet Pimpernel" of terrorism in 2008. . The failure of George W. Bush's White House to heed the CIA's urgent warnings of an imminent Al Qaeda attack prior to 9/11, sounded during a dramatic July 10, 2001 meeting with Condoleezza Rice. And how, by failing to take a simple action, the administration missed an opportunity to unravel the 9/11 plot. Sweeping, illuminating, and rivetingly told, The Spymasters offers the most revealing look yet inside the CIA's wilderness of mirrors.

The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future by Chris Whipple Chriswhipple.net From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to run the world’s most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office. Only eleven men and one woman are alive today who have made the life-and-death decisions that come with running the world’s most powerful and influential intelligence service. With unprecedented, deep access to nearly all these individuals plus several of their predecessors, Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that answers to the United States president alone, but whose activities—spying, espionage, and covert action—take place on every continent. At pivotal moments, the CIA acts as a brake on rogue presidents, starting in the mid-seventies with DCI Richard Helms’s refusal to conceal Richard Nixon’s criminality and continuing to the present as the actions of a CIA whistleblower have ignited impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has been a powerful player on the world stage, operating largely in the shadows to protect American interests. For The Spymasters, Whipple conducted extensive, exclusive interviews with nearly every living CIA director, pulling back the curtain on the world’s elite spy agencies and showing how the CIA partners—or clashes—with counterparts in Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. Topics covered in the book include attempts by presidents to use the agency for their own ends; simmering problems in the Middle East and Asia; rogue nuclear threats; and cyberwarfare. A revelatory, behind-the-scenes look, The Spymasters recounts seven decades of CIA activity and elicits predictions about the issues--and threats—that will engage the attention of future operatives and analysts. Including eye-opening interviews with George Tenet, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, and David Petraeus, as well as those who’ve just recently departed the agency, this is a timely, essential, and important contribution to current events. About Chris Whipple Chris Whipple is an acclaimed writer, documentary filmmaker, and speaker. He is the author of the upcoming book, 'The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future,' to be published by Scribner on September 15, 2020. Highly anticipated, 'The Spymasters' is the most thorough and illuminating portrait ever of America's CIA directors--based on extensive interviews with the directors themselves--those upon whom the country depends to prevent another Pearl Harbor, 9/11, or deadly pandemic. Epic in scope, spanning seven decades of intelligence gathering, espionage and covert warfare, and intimate in detail, featuring indelible portraits of the directors, this is the definitive story of the men--and, currently, the woman--who keep the secrets. Whipple's previous book, 'The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency,' was a critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller. The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the men who have been the president's closest advisers, 'The Gatekeepers' was named by both Amazon and Apple as one of their "best books of the year." The Huffington Post compared it to "classic works by Richard Neustadt, Theodore White and other White House chroniclers." A frequent guest on MSNBC and CNN, Whipple has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Politico, the Daily Beast, and many other publications. He is the chief executive officer of CCWHIP Productions, and executive producer of the Showtime film, 'The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs.' Whipple was educated at Deerfield Academy and received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in history from Yale College.

With 30 years of experience, Michael Trott is an expert on close quarters protection. Michael has served as a U.S. Air Force Security Specialist and Special Agent with the CIA, worked for Fortune 100 corporations and protected ultra-high net worth families. He continues to provide confidential advice and assistance to a diverse group of international clientele on matters of close protection, intelligence and security. “In The PROTECTED, Mike provides invaluable insights and intelligent perspectives into the world of personal protection.”- George Tenet, Former Director Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)Listen in…Michael on the Web: https://www.theprotected.us/ Michael's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Protected-Michael-W-Trott/dp/1480870994/ Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/theprotectors)

On the 18th anniversary of 9/11, Parallax Views would like to present listeners with this previously unpublished conversation with Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy, authors of The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror. Despite the cliché that "9/11 changed everything", few have proven willing to dive into the deep history of September 11th and ask the $1 million dollar question: how did this event, that constitutes not only America's worst terrorist attack but also it's greatest intelligence failure, happen? For over ten years, Nowosielski and Duffy thought to answer this question. This led them eventually being granted an interview with Richard A. Clarke, the counterrorism advisor to both President Clinton & President. What Clarke alleged to them was that the CIA, under the directorship of George Tenet, was guilty of "malfeasance and misfeasance" in the lead-up to the September 11th attack. Watchdogs Didn't Bark tells the chilling story of events which culminated in the September 11th terrosist attacks including tensions between the FBI and CIA, the CIA's Alec Station or Bin Laden Unit, and key 9/11 hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. In this conversation you will hear about Bin Laden's arch-nemesis John O'Neill (who died in the WTC on that fateful September day shortly after leaving the FBI), the saga of the Alec Station's Michael Scheuer and "The Unidentified Queen of Torture" Alfreda Bikowsky, and the war on whistleblowers that was kickstarted by the War on Terror. And, by the end of it, you, dear listener, will understand that the watchdogs didn't bark. PLEASE READTHE WATCHDOGS DIDN'T BARK:THE CIA,NSA,ANDTHE CRIMES OF THE WAR ON TERROR SUPPORT PARALLAX VIEWS ON PATREON! WHERE YOU CAN HEAR... PARALLAX VIEWS AFTER HOURS! - THE LATEST FROMPARALLAX VIEWS AFTER HOURS: Matthew AlfordonWhat the Mainstream Media Won't Tell You About Western Foreign Policy

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with former career CIA official Meroe Park, who served at the agency for nearly three decades in a variety of roles -- including analyst, executive assistant to former director George Tenet, chief of payroll and, most recently, chief operating officer. Park was also acting director when President Trump made his first visit to and speech at the CIA in January 2017. She recounts the last-minute preparations for his appearance and explains why the backlash to Trump's controversial speech missed part of the story of his visit. She also discusses the CIA's efforts to boost diversity and demonstrate effective internal leadership.

By scouring the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report and some declassified CIA documents, reporter Jeff Kaye has confirmed that there were two separate rendition, detention and interrogation programs run by separate branches of the agency’s Counterterrorism Center. The first, which we refer to as “Program A” in this podcast, is already known. Consultants James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were paid over $80 million , we are told, to reverse-engineer torture techniques from the military’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program  designed to train troops and spies to resist torture. Kaye builds a strong case that this effort amounted to human experimentation — for the purpose of designed to  identifying the most effective torture techniques. “Program B” relied on “standard” interrogation tactics that included some forms of coercive interrogation, and it was not subject to the management and monitoring systems of the first one. Kaye says the separate programs were “stovepiped” so that front-line personnel assigned to one program didn’t know about the other. But top CIA management, —including current director Gina Haspel, former director George Tenet, and top lieutenants Cofer Black and Jose Rodriguez  —, had to have known about both programs., Kaye argues.   Dr. Jeff Kaye is a retired psychologist who has been practicing journalism for 15 years. His report on the two programs is here, and the article on Gina Haspel’s role at three CIA“black” sites is here.

The Ghosts Of Langley, John Prados Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series By its very nature, the Central Intelligence Agency is an organization whose operations and history are necessarily cloaked in secrecy. What can outsiders really expect to learn about how the agency operates? John Prados, a senior fellow of the National Security Archive based at George Washington University, offers a clue: Organizations reflect the characters and personalities of their founders and giants in the field-for better or worse. Through a critical examination of CIA leaders past and present, Prados offers a window into the often-unknowable workings of the world of Langley. He looks at a series of CIA leaders, including George Tenet, Richard Helms, and Frank Wisner, analyzing their influences on the spirit and direction of the agency both during and after their tenures. In the process, he surveys key operations in modern CIA history-both successful and controversial-and offers insights into the agency's potential evolution. For more details and ticket information, please check out Smithsonian Associates https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?ID=240844&utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2017FY-Trumba-TSA-ev&utm_content=SA-event&tmssource=227982  

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Jack Devine is one of the legendary spymasters of our time. He was in Chile when Allende fell; he ran Charlie Wilson’s war in Afghanistan; he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it; he caught Pablo Escobar in Colombia; and he tried to warn George Tenet that there was a bullet coming from Iraq with his name on it. His new book, Good Hunting, is Devine’s guide to the art of spycraft and his belief in the CIA’s vital importance as a tool of American statecraft. Although it has been caricatured by Hollywood, lionized by the right, and pilloried by the left, Devine believes the CIA remains one of the least understood instruments of the United States government.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Upside-down and Backward: Finding Faith to Read Reality* for Sunday, 3 June 2007; book review: *At the Center of the Storm; My Years at the CIA* by George Tenet (2007); film review: *Volver* (2006, Spain); poem review: *The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation* by John Bunyan.

Hindsight once again bites us in the ass