9/3/21 Coleen Rowley on the Many Ways 9/11 Could Have Been Prevented

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Scott speaks with FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley about the institutional failures that occurred before and after the 9/11 attacks. Rowley believes that there are many ways the attacks could have been prevented ranging from better information sharing between agencies to the locking of cockpit doors. After the attacks, Rowley says bureaucratic changes alone would have been enough to prevent similar attacks from occurring again and been a lot less costly than launching wars and spying on the world’s population. But both Scott and Rowley observe that instead the tragedy was seized upon by people with predefined agendas, something they both find just as morally reprehensible as prior knowledge of the attacks. Discussed on the show: Pete Seeger: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright Press For Truth Movie Ray Nowosielski interview with Richard Clarke The Shadow Factory by James Bamford Coleen Rowley’s Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller Her second letter to Mueller, right before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 The Fall by Camus Coleen Rowley is a retired FBI agent and lawyer who helped expose the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures. She was honored with TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2002. Find her on Twitter @ColeenRowley. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDfzIR5iy4k Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.1	All right you guys on the line I've got
0:48.8	Colleen Rowley.
0:50.7	She was Times Person of the year in 2002 because she was an FBI lawyer in Minneapolis and her team had arrested Zacharias Masowi and as Laura has it and I think it's true they
1:08.8	had only been allowed to do their job and look at this guy's computer who would
1:12.4	have let him right to some of the
1:13.8	al-Qaeda pilot hijackers from September 11th living in Florida at the time and they
1:18.3	could have stopped the attack but they were not allowed to do their job because
1:22.1	Washington DC said no and so then
1:25.4	calling Rowley came out and blew the whistle and told the whole story and
1:28.8	warned the government you shouldn't attack a rat because boy you want to talk about making our terrorism
1:34.1	problem worse.
1:35.4	All that was in her big letter to the Senate that was published in memory service made, and made a big splash and has had so much great stuff to say,
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