Last week was the 24th year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Hours after the attacks in 2001, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld decided that the attacks were an act of war, rather than a crime. That evening, President Bush declared before any investigation took place and without foundation that terrorists attacked the United States because they hated freedom.
Government officials intentionally obstructed the Joint Inquiry and the 9/11 Commission to conceal the truth from the victims’ families and the public. They did not want the truth to get in the way of their ability to wage brutal wars of aggression. The US national security state elected to torture the alleged mastermind and facilitators of the attacks, instead of putting them on trial in a court of law with due process rights. The US national security state wanted to establish their narrative of what happened instead of ascertaining the truth or providing justice to the victims and their families.
For example, the 9/11 Commission Report heavily relies on the testimony of the alleged mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, which was extracted through torture. By subjecting the detainees to torture, the military trials have been delayed for years because evidence extracted from torture is unreliable. Furthermore, one detainee Ramzi bin al-Shibh, an alleged facilitator of the 9/11 attacks, will not stand trial because the military court concluded that he is unfit to stand trial due to the torture that he endured.
Another overlooked aspect of 9/11 is the role of the NSA, CIA, and FBI. The 9/11 attacks, which were allegedly carried out by Al Qaeda, were successful despite the NSA monitoring all incoming and outgoing communications through the Al Qaeda communications hub in Yemen since 1996. What messages were being relayed through the Yemen hub? The NSA was also monitoring Osama Bin Laden’s cellphone and produced tens of thousands of pages of transcripts. What was Bin Laden saying on his cellphone and why won’t the NSA release the transcripts?
In addition, the CIA monitored incoming communications to the Yemen hub. The CIA knew that two Al Qaeda operatives, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who attended a major Al Qaeda summit in Malaysia and were associated with the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, Khallad, had US visas and traveled to the United States. Hazmi and Mihdhar were provided financial and logistical support by Saudi intelligence assets such as Omar al-Bayoumi and Osama Basnan and cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, while living openly in the United States. For years, the victims’ families have pursued litigation against Saudi Arabia for their role in 9/11. The US national security state prefers that the Saudi role in 9/11 not be revealed. Fortunately, a federal court recently ruled that the lawsuit against Saudi Arabia may continue.
The CIA prohibited two FBI agents, Doug Miller and Mark Rossini, who were assigned to the CIA’s Bin Laden Station (Alec Station), from notifying the FBI about Hazmi and Mihdhar’s visas and presence in the United States because the CIA alleged that the next attack would be overseas, which would not be a matter for the FBI. Finally, less than 3 weeks before 9/11, the CIA notified the FBI about Hazmi and Mihdhar’s presence in the United States, yet the FBI failed to apprehend them despite the fact that simple searches would have enabled the FBI to have located them.
The CIA knew that Hazmi and Mihdhar would be involved in an upcoming attack and notified the FBI so the CIA would not be blamed for failing to inform the FBI. The deputy head of Alec Station, Tom Wilshire, wrote in July 2001, “When the next big op is carried out by UBL, hardcore cadre, Khallad [bin Attash] will be at or near the top of the command food chain—and probably nowhere near either the attack site or Afghanistan. Khalid Midhar [sic] should be [of] very high interest anyway, given his connection to the [redacted].”
The head of Alec Station, Richard Blee, said in July 2001 to National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and CIA Director George Tenet, “there will be significant terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months. The attacks will be spectacular.”
Prior to 9/11, FBI Headquarters prevented the Minneapolis FBI station from obtaining a warrant to search Zacarias Moussaoui’s laptop despite the fact that Moussaoui was connected to Al Qaeda and taking flight lessons in the United States. The Minneapolis agents were, “trying to keep Moussaoui from crashing an airplane into the World Trade Center.”
According to FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley, “jokes were actually made that the key FBIHQ personnel had to be spies or moles … who were actually working for Osama Bin Laden to have so undercut Minneapolis’ effort.”
Per Kevin Fenton, the author of Disconnecting the Dots, if the Moussaoui investigation had not been obstructed, the FBI and CIA would have likely identified at least 11 of the 19 hijackers. Moussaoui was financed by Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who was closely connected to three of the alleged pilot hijackers, Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah, and Marwan al-Shehhi.
Hazmi and Mihdhar were two of the alleged Flight 77 “muscle hijackers” during the 9/11 attacks. Mark Rossini and former counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke believe that the CIA was running an illegal operation on US soil using Saudi intelligence to monitor and flip Hazmi and Mihdhar and did not want the FBI to get in the way.
My view is that the CIA was using Saudi Arabia to ensure that the terrorist attacks on the United States were successful. No one was punished for failing to prevent 9/11. In fact, the head of Alec Station, Richard Blee, received a promotion. The US national security state got the new Pearl Harbor that it needed to pursue its geo-strategic objectives.
To this day, we are still deprived the truth regarding 9/11 and whether elements of the US national security state allowed 9/11 to happen or made it happen on purpose. We also do not the full story behind the roles of foreign countries such as Saudi Arabia and Israel regarding the 9/11 attacks.
Neo-conservative intellectual Irving Kristol said, “There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.”
The 9/11 myth that terrorists attacked the United States because they hate freedom and that these terrorists were successful without any assistance from the US national security state and its key allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel must be questioned and investigated.
9:29 pm on September 16, 2025
