The 9/11 Files: They Could Have Stopped It | Ep 3 -- 10/7/25

The 9/11 Files: They Could Have Stopped It | Ep 3 - Tucker Carlson Summary:

- 0:00-1:08 - Bush administration actively undermined investigation into 9/11; August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." warned of hijackings, mentioned bin Laden 40 times; CIA Director George Tenet said summer 2001 "system was blinking red"

- 1:22-2:28 - Intelligence reports predicted airplane hijackings (May 2001); FAA issued warnings to airlines; NORAD simulated hijacked plane crashing into US building during training exercises; National Reconnaissance Office planned exercise on 9/11/01 involving plane crash near Dulles Airport

- 2:41-3:51 - Bill Clinton warned Bush in 2000-2001 transition: "greatest threat is bin Laden and Al Qaeda"; Sandy Berger told Condoleezza Rice Al Qaeda was "biggest national security threat"; July 10, 2001 emergency meeting with Rice about impending attack; on morning of 9/11, CIA Director Tenet mentioned "guy taking pilot training"

- 4:17-5:27 - Mike Scheuer (CIA 22 years, chief of Osama bin Laden Unit 1995-1999) explains bin Laden's history: wealthy Saudi family, fought Soviets in Afghanistan, exiled from Saudi Arabia for criticizing US ties, returned to Afghanistan 1996 and declared war on US

- 5:54-6:56 - Bin Laden's 1996 declaration of war message was "Get out of our land" - US had been repeatedly attacked in region since 1983 (Beirut barracks bombing killed 300+ Marines, 1993 World Trade Center bombing by Ramzi Yousef)

- 7:08-8:18 - CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia John Brennan refused to provide basic information on bin Laden (bank accounts, health, education); when Scheuer's unit pressed harder, Brennan called CIA Director Tenet who ordered: "Don't send Brennan any more of these notes"

- 8:22-10:14 - CIA developed plan to capture bin Laden at Tarnak Farms compound where he lived with family; plan rehearsed 3-4 times in US 1997-1998, had military support and legal justifications prepared; Clinton administration suspended operation in May 1998, less than a week before planned execution

- 12:10-13:51 - Pattern of cancelled opportunities: operation planned days before Al Qaeda bombed Kenya/Tanzania embassies in 1998; after embassy bombings, Tenet called asking to "revive the program" but became "a habit" to miss opportunities; Scheuer says bin Laden "could have been accomplished by '97" but "10 more opportunities" from 1997-1999 were not taken

- 14:54-17:09 - Scheuer removed 1999, replaced by Richard Blee; October 2000 USS Cole attack killed 17 sailors - Clinton took no action despite immediately knowing it was bin Laden; Bush administration's Paul Wolfowitz called Cole bombing "stale" by time Bush took office (just 5 months after attack)

- 18:01-18:38 - Critical period 1999-2001: CIA Director Tenet implemented "the Plan," elevated Cofer Black (who later joined Hunter Biden on Burisma board) to director of Counterterrorism Center; core of future 9/11 hijackers gathering in Afghanistan

- 18:55-21:45 - Summer 2001 warnings ignored: April-June reports on bin Laden planning attacks; June 22 CIA warned of suicide bombing in US; June 25 Clarke told Rice "something very, very, very big" about to happen; July embassies closed; Acting FBI Director told Attorney General Ashcroft about warnings, Ashcroft responded: "I don't want you to ever talk to me about Al Qaeda... I don't want to hear about Al Qaeda anymore"

- 21:55-22:42 - Unanswered questions created by lies: huge surge in airline stock put options before attacks - who profited? Did foreign governments know and not warn US? Why was debris from attacks shipped abroad immediately, preventing engineering study of crime scene?____________________________
Original Source Attribution:

'The 9/11 Files: They Could Have Stopped It | Ep 3' | Tucker Carlson
and Tucker Carlson Network | Oct 7, 2025 | https://youtu.be/Oj20sGzcAc4?si=R_wPsAy239D8EczC

Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit, reveals how the Bush and Clinton administrations repeatedly failed to act on Al-Qaeda. Despite multiple clear warnings, they slashed counterterrorism funding and called off numerous chances to take out Bin Laden—decisions that led directly to 9/11.
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