We offside on TV back in 2001.

Four crimes were committed in the mid-air beneath the sun.

So they tapped our telephones,

but no evidence was lost.

Asking the wrong questions in the all American dialogue. Welcome my friends welcome to this inaugural edition of the Corbett Report.

I am your host, James Corbett, podcasting to you from the sunny climes of Western Japan on this first day of June 2007.

Let me take this opportunity to welcome you to the Corbett Report.

This is the first episode of the Cor report entitled Investigate 9-11 and today we're going to be getting into the reasons to reopen the investigation into the events of September 11th.

But as it is the first episode, let me just go through a few things

about the podcast and my website corbett report.com. The corbett report is based on

the principle of open source intelligence news gathering. is an increasingly relied upon tool in the intelligence

news gathering.

Open source intelligence is an increasingly relied upon tool in the

intelligence community to gather information from

open sources.

Open sources is anything that's available to the public freely from books or newspapers to information on the internet, to media interviews, to government white papers.

Indeed, the Washington Times article from 2006 confirms that the CIA is using open source intelligence to gather information about the public from the blogosphere.

And the great thing about open source intelligence is that it cuts

both ways.

It's open nature ensures that not only can intelligence agencies use it to gather information

about the public, but the public can use

open sources to gather information about intelligence agencies. In the spirit of

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