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Some secrets are kept in the basement.

Others in the morgue.

Welcome to Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

Featuring Defense Attorney and host of the podcast, Defense Diaries, Bob Mata.

One of my biggest questions on this whole thing is who was in charge of this security and how old are they?

And I'm very curious about that because if they were not in a mindset to comprehend and understand 9-11 and the immediate aftermath of 9-11 and how security was run.

I mean, we went to fairly strict lockdowns on things, but it did ease up,

but it eased up to a level that seemed to be secure.

I think there's many generations down that everyone saw that or understand it,

and you can't comprehend it if you didn't live it.

It's the same way our generation doesn't understand Pearl Harbor the way that's someone who went

through it.

But it's one of those things where I think if you missed that part of history, which is now 25

years ago, a quarter of a century ago, you may not quite grasp the gravity of what people who have

some hell-bent idea on destroying people, what they'll go to. And this just, this didn't seem like

it was that much of rocket science to put an extra barrier up so a vehicle could not fit through an open road there. That,

that to me just seems very questionable. And New Orleans clearly has a history of incompetence

in terms of their city and how they handle it. Is this just a story of incompetence here?

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