Paul Wolfowitz, the former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush,

delivered this unusually prophetic and chilling speech on June of 2001, three months before 9-11, at the West Point Military Academy.

The attack on Pearl Harbor.

Interestingly, that surprise attack was preceded by an astonishing number of unheeded warnings

and missed signals. Yet military history is full of surprises, even if fewer as dramatic

or as memorable as Pearl Harbor. Surprise happens so often that it's surprising that we're

still surprised by it.

Very few of these surprises are the product of simple blindness or simple stupidity.

Almost always there have been warnings and signals that have been missed.

Sometimes because there were just too many warnings to pick the right one out. The Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is your host, Abby Martin.

This is your host, Robbie Martin.

So today we're going to be doing kind of a follow-up to a very extensive 9-11 broadcast.

It was actually a two-part. First part, 9-11, an hour and a half broadcast, and the second

part was all in the anthrax attacks for about an hour. We'll link to both of those whole episodes

in the timeline right here at the beginning of this radio show. The timeline's interactive,

which means that you can go and look at any of the links and sources that we're talking about

to back up what we're saying.

Also check out those other broadcasts. But today we're going to be going over kind of everything that's happened since.

And also just new evidence and new kind of realizations that we've had after studying this

subject for years and years and kind of how it all fits together and integrates into what's

happening today.

It's almost impossible if you're, like say, if you're raising children right now who are just

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