Why Was the FBI Ordered to Stand Down Before 9/11?

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The CIA knew. They knew two Al-Qaeda terrorists were living openly in San Diego. They had their names. They knew they had U.S. visas. So when an FBI agent tried to sound the alarm, why was he ordered to stand down?  This is the central question of Tucker Carlson's new documentary, "The 9/11 Files," which argues the attacks were not an intelligence failure, but a deliberate cover-up. The film suggests a CIA turf war and a secret attempt to recruit the hijackers kept the FBI in the dark until it was too late. This directly challenges the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report, suggesting parts of it were a fraud designed to protect high-level officials.  Join us as we dig into one of the most disturbing questions in modern American history: Was 9/11 the result of a gamble by our own intelligence agencies?  What are your initial thoughts on these claims? Let me know in the comments. And if you think these are conversations we need to be having, go ahead and hit that subscribe button.

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00:00The CIA knew two of the 9-11 hijackers were in the United States.

00:05They weren't hiding.

00:06They were living openly in San Diego, one with his name in the phone book.

00:11So when an FBI agent tried to sound the alarm, why was he ordered to stand down?

00:17That's the explosive allegation at the heart of Tucker Carlson's new documentary, The 9-11 Files.

00:24For over two decades, the story we've been told is one of incompetence, a failure to connect the dots.

00:31But this series argues it wasn't a failure, it was active obstruction.

00:36Today we're digging into the shocking claims from Carlson's documentary and asking one simple question.

00:43What is going on here?

00:45At the center of this story is former FBI Special Agent Mark Rossini.

00:50In the year before the attacks, he was embedded inside the CIA's Bin Laden unit.

00:56Rossini claims he and another agent discovered that known al-Qaeda terrorist Khalid al-Mithar and Nawaf al-Hazmi had U.S. visas.

01:05They drafted a warning to the FBI, but that warning was never sent.

01:10Rossini alleges a CIA manager told him not to send it, saying,

01:14This is not the FBI's case.

01:16So why would the CIA block the FBI from tracking terrorists on U.S. soil?

01:22The documentary presents a terrifying theory.

01:26The CIA wasn't just watching the hijackers, it was trying to recruit them as double agents.

01:32If true, it was a high-stakes gamble that required keeping the FBI out of the loop.

01:37Making matters worse, the hijackers were living with an active FBI informant.

01:44The documentary posits this wasn't just a failure to communicate,

01:47it was a turf war that spiraled out of control and ended with nearly 3,000 dead.

01:54These are heavy allegations.

01:56What are your initial thoughts on these claims?

01:58Let me know in the comments.

02:00And if you think these are conversations we need to be having, go ahead and hit that subscribe button.

02:05These claims fly in the face of the official 9-11 commission report,

02:10which concluded the attacks happened because of a failure of imagination.

02:15Carlson's documentary challenges this head-on, suggesting parts of the official investigation were a fraud.

02:22The series argues that then-CIA director George Tenet was never properly grilled

02:27about why his agency withheld critical information.

02:30It insists this isn't wild speculation, pointing to declassified documents and Rossini's testimony as evidence.

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