Blair, Bush & Iraq | 1. The Truth Shall Set You Free

The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight

Sony Music

Society & Culture, News, Documentary, Politics, True Crime

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Was there a chance to stop the 2003 invasion of Iraq before it even began? In February 2003 CIA agent Bill Murray chased a high level, top secret new source across the middle east. Bill was looking for a piece of information so valuable he might be able to use it to stop a war. Want the full story? Unlock all episodes of The Fault Line, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of The Fault Line show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you listen. A Somethin' Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.2	today. Something else.
0:35.0	It's January 2003.
0:39.0	Bill Murray is on a plane hunting down a new top secret contact.
0:45.0	The first stop, sort of on that trip, was Kuala Lumpur,
0:49.0	because he was giving a speech at the Organization of Islamic Conference in Malaysia.
0:55.0	Bill is a senior officer.
1:00.0	Bill is a senior officer in the CIA and in 2003 he's the station chief in Paris, one of the top men in Europe, and he's on an urgent mission.
1:13.0	He has to find this high-level source,
1:17.0	and so he arrives in Kuala Lumpur.
1:20.0	And I just missed him.
1:22.0	No luck.
1:23.0	By the time you take a flight from Washington to Japan
1:26.0	to we have to transit through Singapore
1:29.0	and then up to Malaysia and etc.
1:31.0	I got there before he left, but I was never able to get into the hotel that he was in.
1:36.0	Then he left shortly after I arrived I think the next morning or something he left.
1:41.0	The source was off, this time to Jordan. And by the time I arrived in Jordan
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