* Tucker Carlson 5-Part Series Exposing The Lies Of The Official 9/11 Report *
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00:00In January 2000, as the CIA was tracking two future hijackers as they journeyed to Los Angeles,
00:08George W. Bush was seven months into his presidential campaign.
00:11What we're going to do is we're going to do something no other presidential candidate has been able to do.
00:15The near impossible, remember what it was? The near impossible turn like that.
00:20One of the most exhilarating moments of my political career in years too.
00:24His campaign was working to take down his opponent at the time, Arizona Senator John McCain,
00:30by spreading rumors he'd fathered a black bastard child with a prostitute.
00:34You should be ashamed. You should be ashamed.
00:36The following December, two other hijackers, Muhammad Adda, the ringleader of the plot,
00:41and Marwan Alshehi, were finishing their pilot training in Venice, Florida on the West Coast.
00:46In Washington, the Supreme Court ruled that George W. Bush had won the 2000 election.
00:51John McCain wanted to get political revenge.
00:55When he got his chance 10 months later, it would have historic consequences.
00:58The official story of what happened on 9-11 comes from a single report,
01:03the 9-11 final report of the National Commission.
01:06In the two decades since it was released, it has become the basis for all media coverage of terror attacks that day.
01:13What the media never mention is that the commission itself was a farce.
01:16It was intentionally underfunded.
01:18It was poorly structured.
01:20It was, from top to bottom, corrupt.
01:22Two years after the report was released, the commission's own chairman admitted it was set up to fail.
01:28Americans have many questions tonight.
01:32Americans are asking, who attacked our country?
01:36Beginning in the first hours after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
01:40the Bush administration began leveraging the tragedy to launch their next project,
01:45a so-called global war on terror.
01:47The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations
01:53known as al-Qaeda.
01:57In a normal country, its leaders would insist on an answer to the simple question,
02:02how did a terror network closely monitored by the United States intelligence agencies,
02:06including a unit dedicated to following them at CIA headquarters in Langley,
02:11how did a group like that manage to pull off the 9-11 attacks in broad daylight?
02:15That's the question.
02:18But this is not a normal country, and it was never answered.
02:21In fact, the Bush administration ferociously opposed any attempt to look carefully at what happened that day.
02:28And that presents a bigger question.
02:31Why?
02:32What did they have to hide?
02:34My name is Kristen Breitweiser.
02:36My husband, Ron, was killed on September 11th.
02:39Breitweiser is one of four 9-11 widows who became famous at the time as the, quote, Jersey girls.
02:44They were some of the only people in public life in the United States who wouldn't let it go.
02:50They didn't believe the official 9-11 story, and they often said so.
02:54They were all over the media for several years,
02:56determined to identify government officials who may have been complicit in the tragedy.
03:01In the end, they were ignored.
03:03We were looking at a Bush administration that really was not interested in looking backwards.
03:09There was a push to immediately go to war.
03:11There was an invasion into Afghanistan, and then there was the queue-up for the war in Iraq.
03:16I can hear you.
03:19The rest of the world hears you.
03:21And the people...
03:22And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
03:33Rather than get to the bottom of what actually happened,
03:37the Bush administration immediately exploited the crisis to push for what it really wanted,
03:41which was an invasion of Iraq.
03:43In his book, Against All Enemies, George W. Bush's counterterrorism's R Richard Clark
03:48said that when he went back to the White House immediately after 9-11,
03:51he, quote, expected to go back to a round of meetings
03:54examining what the next attacks would be, what our vulnerabilities were.
03:59Instead, he realized with what he called almost sharp physical pain
04:03that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were going to take advantage of the tragedy
04:07to promote their agenda about Iraq.
04:10And that's exactly what they did.
04:12On the afternoon of September 11th, Rumsfeld said his instinct was to hit Saddam Hussein
04:17at the same time, not only bin Laden.
04:20The day after the attack,
04:22Bush asked Clark to see if Saddam did this,
04:25see if he's involved in any way.
04:28And while meeting with the president on September 15th at Camp David,
04:31Wolfowitz argued that Iraq was ultimately the source of the terrorist problem
04:36and should therefore be attacked.
04:38We learned quite quickly that we were not going to get the answers that we really wanted
04:43with regard to the murder, the homicide of our 3,000 loved ones.
04:47My husband, Ron, was 39 when he was killed.
04:51He was a really good man.
04:53He was smart and a good dad.
04:55And he had called me on the morning of September 11th.
04:59I was rushing out the door to take my daughter to speech therapy.
05:03And I had no idea what was going on.
05:04I didn't have the television on.
05:05And he was like, sweets, it's me.
05:07I'm OK.
05:07And I had no idea.
05:09I'm like, OK, I'm glad you're OK.
05:11And he was like, no, no.
05:12He's like, put the television on.
05:13And he's like, it's not my building.
05:14I knew you would be worried.
05:15It's not my building.
05:17And I put the television on.
05:18And I was still on the phone with him.
05:19And I was like, oh, my God.
05:21Like, what is that?
05:22And he was like, you know, there's an explosion in the building next to me.
05:25But it's not my building.
05:27I'm safe.
05:27I'm fine.
05:28And I was like, it's really bad.
05:30You know, it looks bad.
05:31And he was like, that's why I called.
05:33Don't worry.
05:33It's not my building.
05:34And he's like, and then his voice cracked.
05:36And he was like, sweets.
05:37He's like, people are falling out the windows.
05:40I'm like, just, you know, what are you going to do?
05:43And he's like, well, I'm going to go down to the trading floor and see if I can find
05:46a television to see what's going on.
05:47We don't know anything.
05:49He's like, but I didn't want you to worry.
05:50I love you.
05:51He's like, I'll call you back.
05:53And, you know, that was the last I spoke to him.
05:56And like three minutes after we got off the phone, I still had the TV on.
06:02And I saw his building explode right where he was.
06:05And I just, I wish I told him to run.
06:09I wish I told him to get out.
06:10I wish I told him, you know, it's not safe.
06:13Something's wrong.
06:14Get out.
06:15But I just, I didn't.
06:18I think, you know, feeling that way, feeling like, why didn't I know?
06:23Why didn't I have a woman's instinct to be like, get out?
06:27Made me want to fight for the commission and for everything else because I felt like the
06:32American public deserves to know.
06:34Well, the Bush administration, which at the time was enjoying a historic 90 percent approval
06:39rating, was pushing a very clear storyline.
06:43They told the country that Osama bin Laden had simply caught American authorities off guard.
06:48There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9-11 attacks.
06:51That was a lie.
06:53And by May of 2002, more than two-thirds of Americans understood that it was a lie.
06:58They wanted an investigation into the so-called intelligence failures that led to the attack.
07:04The initial effort to investigate 9-11 was a joint congressional commission led by Senator
07:08Bob Graham, a Democrat of Florida, and Congressman Porter Goss, a former CIA officer who would
07:14later become the agency's director, appointed by Bush.
07:17These public hearings are part of our search for truth.
07:22Cheney did not want anyone looking into his failures that day, the administration's failures,
07:27and more than anything, I think he and the political strategist Karl Rove were very focused
07:32on the president's reputation, on ensuring that he would get reelected.
07:37The lengths that the Bush administration went to kill the investigation into 9-11 are shocking.
07:42In the winter of 2002, Dick Cheney called the then-Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle of
07:48South Dakota, and made a threat.
07:50The Veep told Daschle the leaders of the war on terror would be too busy to get bogged down
07:54in preparing for and testifying in front of the committees.
07:58The strong implication of this, if you insist, will say you're interfering with the war effort.
08:04The committee moved forward anyway.
08:05On June 19, 2002, they discovered that the NSA had intercepted messages from al-Qaeda operatives
08:12from the day before the attacks, saying, quote, the match begins tomorrow, and tomorrow is
08:19zero day.
08:20It couldn't have been clearer.
08:22Someone on the committee leaked those messages to the news media.
08:25CNN broadcast them.
08:27And in retaliation for this, for telling the truth, the Bush administration sicked the FBI,
08:32then run by Robert Mueller, on the committee.
08:35The FBI, you know, really came down hard on the joint inquiry.
08:40They polygraphed, they interviewed, they made all kinds of threats.
08:46And so, you know, when the FBI comes after you, it's kind of scary, because you're looking
08:51at not only, you know, potentially losing your position in Congress, but also imprisonment.
08:58It was pure intimidation.
09:00And so it had a very chilling effect, in my opinion, on the progress of the inquiry and
09:07their investigation.
09:09In the end, Congress did make some interesting discoveries, most of which were redacted in
09:14the final report.
09:15The Jersey girls continued to push for the truth.
09:18They were furious.
09:19They demanded an independent commission.
09:21George W. Bush's political enemies agreed.
09:24John McCain's revenge was an independent commission that would explore the truth about what happened
09:28on 9-11.
09:28I think it's legislation that calls for a blue-ribbon commission to examine the facts surrounding
09:34September 11th.
09:36On November 27th, 2002, President Bush, fearing major political blowback if he vetoed the commission,
09:43signed the bill into law.
09:45But he managed to neuter the commission in the process.
09:48His allies in Congress gave the commission weak subpoena power and limited them to a strict
09:5318-month timeline.
09:54They appropriated for the entire investigation just $3 million.
09:59By Washington standards, it was nothing.
10:01By comparison, Congress gave 13 times more funding to investigate the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
10:07It appropriated 11 times more funding for Robert Mueller's investigation into Russiagate.
10:12The administration and the Congress simply didn't want the public to know what happened
10:15on 9-11.
10:16But that wasn't the only thing they did to subvert the truth.
10:20The White House, one of the ways that they controlled the commission was they were going
10:23to choose the chairman.
10:25Their first choice was Henry Kissinger.
10:27Today, I'm pleased to announce my choice for commission chairman, Dr. Henry Kissinger.
10:32At the time, I was like 30 years old, so I had known Kissinger, but I didn't really, you
10:38know, as a stay-at-home suburban housewife, it's not like I, you know, had dived into all
10:44of Henry Kissinger's horrible acts and his status as a war criminal.
10:49Dr. Kissinger is one of our nation's most accomplished and respected public servants.
10:54Kissinger had served as national security advisor and then secretary of state under Richard
10:59Nixon.
11:00He pushed a massive expansion of the Vietnam War, including secret bombings in Cambodia
11:04and Laos.
11:06There are questions about his role in Vietnam, his role in the coup in Chile.
11:10When we first met him, he gave us this long talk about how honored it was, and it was like
11:14the, you know, opportunity, not the opportunity, but like a responsibility of a lifetime.
11:19It is a great honor to be appointed by the president to be chairman of the non-partisan
11:29independent commission.
11:30In 2002, he was running a lucrative consulting business called Kissinger Associates.
11:35I really spent a bit of time researching him, predominantly his clients.
11:41And we had grave concerns that he was chosen by the vice president and the president and
11:47Karl Rove because he was really good at what he does.
11:51And so we were also concerned about his clients and that he had a huge conflict of interest.
11:55And so we were invited to meet with him at his offices on Park Avenue.
12:00We were put into his office.
12:02It was kind of close quarters.
12:03It was really, really hot.
12:05He had the heat turned up to like 100 degrees.
12:09And, you know, it was the winter.
12:11So we had like turtlenecks on and sweaters and stuff.
12:14So we're like sitting there like sweating.
12:16And he's just sitting there calmly.
12:17Cranking up the thermostat is a well-known manipulation strategy.
12:20If you make a room uncomfortably hot, the discomfort puts pressure on the other negotiating
12:26party to make concessions more quickly.
12:28So at one point after we got through the niceties, one of the widows had asked him whose
12:34clients were.
12:34Do you represent any Saudi royals?
12:36Do you represent anyone in the bin Laden family?
12:38And, you know, at the time, it wasn't that much of an outrageous question because there
12:44were members of the bin Laden family who had relationships with, you know, the Bush family
12:51and others.
12:53And so it wasn't like it was an outrageous question.
12:57And he immediately got flustered and, you know, went to pick up a cup of a cup of tea or
13:03coffee and spilled it on the table.
13:06He feigned that it was his fake eye, which didn't know that he had a fake eye.
13:12And we immediately went to, like, clean it up like moms, you know, like, oh, it's OK.
13:16And then he just never answered the question.
13:18And then the very next day he resigned.
13:21Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stepped down from the position Friday.
13:25Scrambling to find a new chairman, Bush's top political advisor, Karl Rove, called former
13:30New Jersey Governor Tom Kane and offered him the job.
13:33Why was George W. Bush's political bag man making this phone call?
13:37No one's ever explained.
13:39Tom is the nicest guy on the planet.
13:41He's very much a gentleman.
13:43He does not go for the jugular.
13:44After he accepted the job, Kane was dragged to the White House where the president's top
13:48advisors told him, we want you to stand up.
13:52You've got to stand up.
13:53You've got to have courage.
13:55We don't want to run away commission.
13:57In other words, do what we say.
14:00The White House's fingerprints were certainly all over the commission.
14:04Chairman Kane ultimately admitted the commission was, quote, set up to fail.
14:08And that's absolutely true.
14:10But in addition to a meaningless budget, the tight timeline and weak subpoena power, there
14:14was another problem.
14:15The man Kane selected to run it.
14:18On January 27th, 2003, the commission issued a press release announcing they'd selected an
14:24academic called Philip Zellico to be the commission's executive director.
14:28He was sold to us as a historian.
14:32I was responsible for the research for Zellico to make sure that he didn't have any conflicts
14:37of interest.
14:38He had a lot of conflicts of interest.
14:41The release described Zellico as, quote, a man of high stature who had distinguished himself
14:45as an academician, a lawyer, author and public servant.
14:49The release did not note that Zellico was an active Bush administration official.
14:54He served on a White House intelligence advisory panel.
14:57It also failed to note his extensive ties to Condoleezza Rice.
15:01He'd served on her transition team.
15:03He'd co-authored a book with Rice in 1995.
15:06In 2002, at Rice's behest, Zellico authored a policy paper championing preemptive invasions.
15:14And this cemented his role as a key architect of the disastrous invasion of Iraq.
15:19Zellico was the perfect person to keep the commission from finding the truth.
15:23I believe he was placed there to, again, play the gatekeeper, to ensure that the commission
15:29would not unearth the truth, and more than anything, to protect the Bush administration
15:34and also lay the groundwork for the war on Iraq in addition to other things.
15:40Zellico's first move was to pre-write the entire report before the facts were in.
15:46In March of 2003, before the investigation had even begun, Zellico had already prepared
15:51a detailed outline complete with chapter headings, subheadings, and sub-subheadings.
15:57He kept all of this a secret from the rest of the staff.
15:59As it turned out, his outline is nearly verbatim to what the final book looks like.
16:05And so what I believe is that he just basically had the outline, knew that it was a quote-unquote
16:11safe outline.
16:11It was probably approved by the Bush administration.
16:14His second move was to consolidate his power.
16:17Zellico gave himself total control over the hiring process.
16:20He at first tried to block the staffers from communicating with the commissioners.
16:25In a now-public memo, Zellico cut off his staff's access to the commissioners.
16:30Quote, if you were contacted by a commissioner with questions, please contact Deputy Director
16:35Chris Kojum or me.
16:37Zellico restricted access to documents.
16:40He divided the staff into separate teams.
16:42He siloed them from each other.
16:43And he closely supervised Team 3.
16:45That was the group that dealt with classified information from the White House and the CIA.
16:49One of Zellico's first moves was a secret agreement with the Justice Department to block
16:54access to the files of the congressional inquiry until the White House had had a chance to
16:59review them first.
16:59Zellico was sort of limiting access to documents when people were requesting specific things.
17:06Zellico would block it.
17:08Notably, the final report contains a full 61 references to finding no evidence of certain
17:15claims about 9-11.
17:16The cute way of explaining why Zellico uses that phrase is that if you don't look for the
17:22evidence, you don't find the evidence.
17:24And so you're not lying when you say we found no evidence.
17:27At one point, a staffer overheard Zellico pressuring a CIA employee to accept Condoleezza
17:33Rice's recollection of intel briefings before the 9-11 attacks.
17:37Most damning of all, phone logs kept by Zellico's assistant show that he was regularly taking
17:43calls from both Condoleezza Rice and Karl Rove, George W. Bush's top political advisor in
17:49the White House.
17:52We reached out to Karl Rove for an explanation of this, and he denied having been in regular
17:55contact with Zellico.
17:56But that is untrue.
17:58Even Zellico himself acknowledges he received multiple calls from Karl Rove, but he claims
18:04they did not discuss the commission.
18:06He doesn't say what they did discuss.
18:09None of it is plausible.
18:11It wasn't even like he was on the National Security Council.
18:13He didn't really have any information that would be helpful to the commission.
18:17Why is the commission's staff director having communications with the White House's political
18:23strategist?
18:24From the outset, the commission started to advance the interests of Bush's neocon foreign
18:29policy agenda.
18:30When Team 3, the counterterrorism group, submitted their draft to Zellico, he inserted sentences
18:35that tried to link al-Qaeda to Iraq to suggest the terrorist network had repeatedly communicated
18:40with the government of Saddam Hussein in the years before 9-11.
18:44And that bin Laden had seriously weighed moving to Iraq.
18:47In the end, those sentences were removed after staffers alerted the commissioners.
18:51But the commissioners did not prevent Zellico from stacking public hearings with discredited
18:55neocons who towed the White House line about Iraq's connections to al-Qaeda, none of which
19:01were real.
19:02The first outside expert to testify to the commission was the Hoover Institute's Abraham
19:06Sofar.
19:07His written remarks to the commission include eight references to Iraq and five references
19:12to Saddam Hussein.
19:13Keep in mind, this was a hearing on 9-11, which had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein
19:18or Iraq.
19:19Sofar spent most of his time at the public hearing talking about the need for preemptive invasions.
19:25The need for preemptive actions stems ultimately from the conditions of modern life.
19:31At the third hearing, Zellico produced a florid and widely discredited neocon called Lori
19:37Milroy from the American Enterprise Institute.
19:40She appeared as a witness.
19:41There is substantial reason to believe that these masterminds are Iraqi intelligence agents.
19:46By April of 2004, former Senator Bob Terry of Nebraska, a Democrat, confronted Rice about
19:52Zellico's ties to the administration.
19:54Let me just ask you directly, and you can just give me a, keep it relatively short, but
19:59I wanted to get it on the record.
20:00Since he was an expert on terrorism, did you ask Philip Zellico any questions about terrorism
20:04during transition?
20:05Since he was a second person carded in the National Security Office and had considerable expertise.
20:12Philip and I had numerous conversations about the issues that we were facing.
20:19Philip was, in fact, as you know, had worked in the campaign and helped with the transition
20:24plan, so yes.
20:25Yes, you did talk to him about terrorism?
20:27We talked, Philip and I, over a period of, you know, we worked closely together as academics.
20:32Just in the, during the transition, did you instruct him to do anything on terrorism?
20:36Oh, to do anything on terrorism?
20:38To help us think about the structure of the terrorism, the, Dick Clark's operations, yes.
20:46Incredibly, the man in charge of the official story of 9-11, Philip Zellico, was the Bush
20:51administration advisor who decided to demote the White House's counterterrorisms, our
20:56Dick Clark, in the months before 9-11.
20:59Yet somehow, these details, central though they are, were left out of the commission's
21:05final report.
21:06The 9-11 commission report was a cover-up from beginning to end.
21:10That is true.
21:12And that's the most important starting point for those seeking to understand what actually
21:16happened on September 11th.
21:18The official story is a lie.
21:21What isn't clear is why our government and subsequent governments under subsequent presidents
21:27would want to continue that lie and cover up what actually happened on 9-11.
21:32What exactly were they hiding?
21:34And more important, who were they protecting?
21:38We found out.
21:39That's in the next installment of our 9-11 series.
21:429-11 series.
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