Chris Cuomo hosts the show live from Ground Zero and reflects on 25 years since 9/11, the devastation of the attacks and the unity that followed. He examines how the country changed in the years afterward, from military interventions abroad and prolonged conflicts, to a greater emphasis on intelligence sharing and collaboration. Cuomo also revisits questions surrounding Saudi Arabia's alleged connections to the attacks and the continued calls for accountability from some 9/11 families. Chris Cuomo welcomes two people whose lives were shaped by 9/11 in very different ways. Ashley Bisman was 16 when her father, Jeffrey Goldflam, died in the attacks. She turned to journaling to help process her grief and later published a memoir for other…
The CIA has released 71 classified presidential briefings tied to the September 11 attacks, and the documents show the intelligence community warned President George W. Bush repeatedly that Osama bin Laden was planning to strike inside the United States, warnings that went unheeded. Three of the newly declassified Presidential Daily Briefings, delivered to Bush in […] The post CIA declassifies 71 presidential briefings that warned of al-Qaeda strikes weeks before 9/11 appeared first on American Almanac .
The CIA has released 71 classified presidential briefings tied to the September 11 attacks, and the documents show the intelligence community warned President George W. Bush repeatedly that Osama bin Laden was planning to strike inside the United States, warnings that went unheeded. Three of the newly declassified Presidential Daily Briefings, delivered to Bush in the summer of 2001, paint a picture of an intelligence apparatus that tracked al-Qaeda's intentions with striking specificity but failed to prevent the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. The release, timed to the 25th anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, adds fresh detail to one of the most…Open
A new book reveals the hubris and ignorance that turned the War on Terror into a disaster. The post In the Wake of Bush’s Failures appeared first on The American Conservative .
War War In the Wake of Bush’s Failures A new book reveals the hubris and ignorance that turned the War on Terror into a disaster. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images All the Presidents’ Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror, by Peter Bergen with David Sterman, W.W. Norton & Company, 401 pages. No one can forget seeing the Twin Towers collapse and the Pentagon burn. We were glued to televisions and radios before the advent of smartphones. We were terrified, confused, wounded, and, as the initial shock began to subside, vengeful. Our collective sense of safety…Open
MS NOW’s David Rohde joins Morning Joe to discuss covering 9/11 from Ground Zero 25 years ago and his reporting on Two Americans whose lives were forever changed on that day – a Marine who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a CIA officer who hunted Osama bin Laden.
In April 2023, The Grayzone exposed how Riyadh recruited then managed two would-be hijackers on behalf of the CIA
Twenty five years on, the mainstream media’s determination to reinforce the official story of 9/11 appears to be finally cracking. Major news outlets are now reporting on an ongoing civil suit in a New York court against Omar Bayoumi, long-accused of being the Saudi intelligence handler of 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Hazmi and Khalid Mihdhar. Back in April 2023, The Grayzone exposed how Riyadh recruited then managed the two would-be hijackers on behalf of the CIA. As Max Blumenthal detailed in his 2019 book, The Management of Savagery , the CIA had at least sought to recruit Hazmi and Mihdhar. When a 21-page declaration by lead investigator for the Office of Military Commissions Don Canestraro finally appeared in unredacted form in 2023, the…Open
“Most certainly [Osama Bin Laden] is a Mujahid. I do not doubt his sincerity in...
“Most certainly [Osama Bin Laden] is a Mujahid. I do not doubt his sincerity in resisting occupation for the sake of God Almighty.” – Mohammed Mahdi Akef, Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide (2008 ) The question of responsibility for 9/11 has always been a contentious issue. Not in the conspiratorial sense. There’s no doubt (among serious people) that the attacks were planned, coordinated and carried out by Mohammad Atta and his 18 fellow hijackers, all of them members of al-Qaeda operating under a plan conceived by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, and ultimately at the behest of al-Qaeda Emir Osama Bin Laden. But questions remain about how far the network of culpability should be extended. As the Center’s Dave Wursmer discussed,…Open
America says "never forget" — but a growing share of Americans don't remember. Why it matters: More Americans are coming of age with no firsthand memory of 9/11 , creating emotional distance from the trauma and more room for dark humor and reinterpretation. The big picture: For Americans under 27, 9/11 arrived through textbooks, movies, social media and family stories rather than lived experience. - That distance can make humor easier, amplified by algorithms that reward provocative content and a generational instinct to push back against mandatory reverence. By the numbers: About 83% of adults born before 2001 remember where they were or what they were doing when they heard about the attacks. - But roughly 10% of U.S. adults were…
Preventing future blowback requires a foreign policy of peace. The post Did Bin Laden Defeat America? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs Did Bin Laden Defeat America? Preventing future blowback requires a foreign policy of peace. Photo by CNN via Getty Images On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes. Two of these were flown into the Twin Towers, one into the Pentagon, and the fourth—en route to Washington, D.C.—crashed in a Pennsylvania field after its passengers heroically overpowered the hijackers. All told, 2,977 Americans were killed on that day. Shortly thereafter, the Bush administration would launch the invasion of Afghanistan and begin laying…Open
Robert O’Neill, who says he fired the shots that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, joins “Batya!” to talk about the 25th anniversary of 9/11. “I’m just making sure that I never go to bed angry with anyone in my family. And especially on Sept. 10 of every single year, I hug everyone a little bit tighter. Even if I’m in an argument, I’ll call them and let them know that I love them,” he said. #9/11 #World NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
