S8 Ep736: 6. THE 9/11 FAILURE AND INSTITUTIONAL RECKONING Guest Mundy: Guest Mundy describes the trauma of 9/11, which CTC analysts watched unfold with a sense of "sick inevitability" after years of ignored warnings. While the rest of Langley evacuated, the CTC wom
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6. THE 9/11 FAILURE AND INSTITUTIONAL RECKONING Guest Mundy: Guest Mundy describes the trauma of 9/11, which CTC analysts watched unfold with a sense of "sick inevitability" after years of ignored warnings. While the rest of Langley evacuated, the CTC women stayed at their posts to prevent a second wave. Mundy discusses the profound resentment they felt when later blamed for failing to "connect the dots" that they had been documenting since 1998,. The Bush administration’s "old Cold Warriors" were particularly slow to recognize a stateless entity as a primary threat, overlooking the detailed briefings the sisterhood had provided for years,. (7)
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| 0:43.2 | the secret history of women at the cia it is the summer of 2000 again and again the ctc the |
| 0:49.9 | alec station have been alerting that there's movement, there's information, there's reason |
| 0:55.1 | to believe they're going to attack the United States, not overseas. |
| 0:59.9 | It reminds me so much of how Roosevelt and his staff believed the Japanese were going to attack |
| 1:05.1 | Singapore. |
| 1:06.5 | They were not, didn't think that it would be attacking the United States. |
| 1:10.3 | Who would attack the United States, this rag-tag bunch that lives in caves? |
| 1:14.5 | Well, Cindy Storer and Barbara sued and Gina Bennett from State, and certainly Hida Fields, |
| 1:20.4 | Heidi Fields, Heidi August, who was running CTC for a moment at this point, recognized that |
| 1:25.9 | they are not rag-tag at all. |
| 1:27.3 | They have the capability. |
| 1:28.3 | And Liza, you can't change history. |
| 1:31.3 | So the day of the attack, where everybody is and how they respond to it, what is their memory now? |
| 1:37.3 | You've talked to all of them. |
| 1:38.3 | What do they remember about that day? |
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