9/11: The Intelligence Angle
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The surprise of September 11 2001 was, in part, a failure of imagination and CIA Director George Tenet did not want that to happen again. On September 13 he created the Red Cell and staffed it with “people who were willing to take their analysis to a whole new zip code.” CIA analyst Mark...
Published 08/23/12
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was behind many of the most heinous terrorist plots of the past twenty years, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Millenium Plots, and 9/11 itself.He even claims to have personally beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.Investigative journalist...
Published 08/01/12
The war with Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda did not begin on September 11th. CIA analyst Cynthia Storer was there from the beginning in the early 1990s, a member of a small band of mostly female analysts who worked on Al Qaeda long before September 11.They faced a frustrating uphill battle...
Published 09/09/11