have been hearing all day long they now believe that bin laden was responsible so i'm told that osama bin laden likely deployed more than fifty terrorists now and i'm quoting here ninety percent certainty somebody provided the logistical within hours of the attacks on the trade center there seem to be one suspect billionaire terrorist osama bin laden and his band the ragtag extremist al qaeda were to blame they successfully struck the number one military power in the world in an unprecedented fashion america would never be the same the patriot acts homeland security domestic wiretapping and surveillance the loss of civil liberties all in order to fight terror protect us here at home is osama bin laden really responsible for the attacks of september eleventh if so why can't we apprehend him and you know the f b i does not list nine eleven as one of bin laden's crimes why not  according to chief investigative for the f b i it is because there is no hard evidence linking bin laden to the attacks if that is the case how could the nine eleven commission conclude it was the work of nine thousand radical my from the middle east under the direction of kill each it mohamed and osama bin laden the man has been universally blamed for nine eleven but if one takes a closer look at the available evidence it points to a much darker power seven years later what evidence has been gathered let's begin with the hijackers many of them were actually trained within u s military bases on september fifteenth two thousand and one newsweek reported that u s military sources have given information that suggest five of the alleged hijackers received training at secure u s military installations in the ninet nani and i met alghamdi listed their address on driver's licenses and car registrations as the naval air station in pensacola florida another indication of how the hijackers were tied to u s bases was reported on september twelfth by fox in d c they stated congratulatory phone calls were made from a separate aeronautical school in florida which ingested inside help the hijackers now here embry riddle school in daytona beach investigators say that they did indeed intercept the cell phone calls that originated out of here calls that were congratulatory after yesterday's attacks calls the feds say were made by terrorist sympathizers here in daytona as well as in broward county the new york times report that the defense department said that i had gone to the international officer school and maxwell air force base in alabama abdulaziz alomari the aerospace medical school at brooks air force base in texas and saeed al ghandi the defense language institute at the presidio in monterrey california the vice chancellor for student affairs at the defense language is to wear alghamdi trained went public and said bush knew of the impending attacks on america he did nothing to warn the american people because he needed this war on terrorism he was quickly disciplined and threatened with court martial even when neighbors called the cia on hijacker will lead all she area nothing was done you might think that some of the neighbors would be shocked to find out that a suspected terrorist lived right down the street from them but at least one woman we spoke with was not surprised at all dianne all britain was so concerned about what was happening inside the home at five o two orange street she called the cia why was she suspicious odd coming and going to different rental cars the op looking people that came in right at that time she says the agency was not interested how could it be that the cia wasn't interested in this woman story other government officials would go public as well j michael springman a former head of the recent apartment in saudi arabia would blow the whistle that the united states was taking part in covert programs as far back as one nine hundred eighty seven the fall and protect islamic terrorists well it began in jeddah when i was repeatedly told to do one qualified applicants this went on for quite some time during most of my tour there and the american immigration law as a you need to demonstrate that you're going to the united states for a specific purpose and typically in such a situation you're going to sign a business deal or you're going to go as a tourist to see the grand canyon or you're going to the united states as a as a student to study a particular course of study and these were people that had no job in one instance he was a sudanese who was unemployed in saudi arabia and a refugee from the sudan but he got a visa for national security purposes after it was taken out of my hands by the chief of the consular section and they simply bought them through there in knowing that they would be protected by the agency that people would get their visas or they didn't get the visas they could be made to be given visas once i got back to the united states and was out of the foreign service i ran across a couple of people with ties to the american government that told me another story that the cia was recruiting fighters for the afghan war against the then soviets and had their asset osama bin lad army it is now known that osama bin laden was a cia asset under the code name temasek bin laden would use this and when he would visit the states the relationship between bin laden and the cia was  payroll is he the brutal islamic terrorist we have been led to believe or a mere front man my question was is it not true that the united states government paid three hundred million dollars to the bin laden family for the construction of the military camps at that point then the person who was testifying had no choice but to admit yes that the money had gone to the bin laden family for the construction of those  military training facilities in afghanistan however he added that none of that money went to bin ladin himself of course it was a joke song wasn't the only one the federal bureau of investigation and a confidential informant who rented rooms in california to two of this a timer eleven hijackers but the bureau is resisting requests from a congressional committee investigating the attacks the energy of the informer and his i handler several members of the f b i had their investigations in the terrorism impeded and shut down especially when they got close to been lucky john o'neill was the f b i counterterror chief responsible for the investigation into osama log on august twenty second two thousand and one after claims of repeated obstruction i was investigations into saudi funding o'neill left the f b i this document is marked secret and which means it walked its way out of the washington bureau of the f b i it indicates that before the attack of september eleventh agents and wanted to question two members of a very powerful family for their connections to a suspected terrorist organization omar and of dual bin ladin but the agents weren't allowed to own one on the take a new post as head of world trade center security he would move into his office days before nine eleven day at a time when bin laden was the most wanted man in the world why would intelligence agencies stop their own investigations especially as they were closing in on him robert wright and others within the f b i also had their investigations into terrorism stopped prior to nine eleven since august of one nine hundred ninety nine i've been working to legally expose the very real and forseeable middle eastern terrorist threats to american citizens at home and abroad designated by the united states government as a financial supporter of the some of the last larry klayman of judicial watch initially tried to help get wright story to the proper authorities he wanted to come forward long before nine eleven we were taking those steps beginning last summer to do that the f b i had thirty days to allow that to occur they violated their own regulations they covered it up if you can hear me i went specifically i called the attorney general's office just days after nine eleven i said  represent a special agent of the f b i chicago field office who has years of information about how the f b i did not do its job did not in any way investigate a meaningful way money wondering in the united states you're now claiming you want to do this i'd like to make them available to you attorney general ashcroft and i was met with a response by michael chertoff head of the criminal division were tired of conspiracy theories michael chertoff will later become the head of homeland security department set up to fight the war on terror after nine eleven wright was also restricted from telling any specifics about their investigation robert wright was then prevented from working on terror investigations going through some very powerful u s banks with some very powerful interest in the united states these banks knew or had reason to know that these monies were wanted by terrorists and there are very significant potential conflicts  the clinton and bush administration and in particular the bush administration who is as tight with saudi arabia as you can get presidents father's used to stay with the bin laden family when he would go to saudi arabia former president bush spent the night in d c at the white house on september tenth we've also learned n b c that there was a president bush in the white house during the morning of these events his father former president bush was actually at the white house the morning of the attack the next day elite financier's of the carlyle group would meet with this global private equity investment firm would profiteer enormously from the wars in the middle east at the table were both bush senior and osama's brother jeff the bin laden with the bush and bin laden families had been members since the ninety's and would reap the benefits of terrorism coming to america after nine eleven the company would become public mr needle is referring to is of course the bin lot while all domestic flights were grounded suspects closest to the supposed and mastermind behind nine eleven were allowed to leave on chartered flights let's show you some video that was taken exclusively by news channel two eight days after nine eleven that man there is osama bin lots younger brother collegial who have been here vacationing with other family members there how did a state that they old in west orange county now i guess we can safely say that there are people within the f b i and other agencies who actively protected and aided the alleged terrorists with all the resources available to us intelligence you would think that someone within would have detected some did the black operation program able danger identified the hijackers prior to nine eleven but the f b i wasn't interested lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer an intelligence officer inside able danger tried to blow the whistle several times commission that investigated the nine eleven attacks told that lead hijacker mohamed ata had been identified as al qaeda operative more than a year before a terrorist strike i'm told confidently by the person who did move the material over the nine eleven commission or seem to briefcase size containers of documents i can tell you for a fact that would not be one one twentieth of the information that that able danger consisted of during the time we spent schieffer would also meet with philip zelikow the executive director of the nine eleven commission what did shaffer tell zone account according to all i remember saying we found as part of the data run we found two of the three cells which conducted nine eleven attacks to include a t schafer says his unit linked to al qaeda leaders but would not provide any specifics as to what he did with the information he had we tempted to first off use it operationally the lawyers and you can do that there you were considered u s persons therefore at that point time we made a determination as a team that we should move this information to the f b i but he says beginning in september two thousand and three meetings he set up with the f b i were each cancelled by military lawyers despite all of the nine eleven commission would deny it any significance and not include it in the report leaving a project targeting al qaida as a global threat a year before we were attacked by al qaida is equivalent to having investigation of pro harbor and leaving somehow the japanese schaffer and his team try to stop the hijackers prior to nine eleven but were blocked later the military would begin a smear campaign against them in order to discredit their findings pennsylvania congressman says there's this fear campaign going on inside the pentagon and he wants the defense chief to get to the bottom of it republican congressman curt weldon says pentagon officials are trying to ruin one of their own who's gone public about a top secret military intel unit and ten a colonel tony shaffer who was the first member of able danger to go public has now been told in writing by the defense intelligence agency that he can't speak to members of congress or their staff without prior approval and now a security clearance which allowed him to deal with classified information has been pulled the congressman says shaffer has been gagged punished for speaking up to obvious to me this is a clear attempt to silence this guy but now even more than the silence him to ruin him as a person a military officer i've talked to all the able danger players and they all agree this is a witch hunt against tony it's wrong it's un american it's unacceptable pentagon reportedly does not want the public to hear next week senate testimony about the former secret intelligence unit known as able danger to congressional sources have told fox news that the military is pressuring senators to move the hearings behind closed doors when the able danger hearings were held schieffer and others were gag eventually schafer would be able to speak at a whistleblowers hearing many of us take seriously our oath of office support defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic let me be upfront here i am no boy scout i was not hired as intelligence officer because i hang out at the science christian science reading room my job is to get information using tried and true intelligence methodology according to my legal until i disclosed the able danger from ation i was a rockstar it was my work as  remain classified with all this evidence why did the nine eleven commission and pentagon the press about you bill information about the hijackers activities leading up to the attacks there was a group of israelis some of whom later were revealed as mossad assets who were arrested after cheering and high five being and videotaping the crash of the airplanes into the world trade towers several other men were detained after a van full of explosives was stopped outside of manhattan earlier we had heard that an f b i spokesperson said that there was a report on the george washington bridge which is another facility which you folks are responsible for policing a report that there had been a van praagh stop there that had explosives asked this week about another sprawling investigation and the detention of sixty israelis since september eleventh the bush administration treated the questions like hot potatoes i would just refer you to department of justice where that i'm not familiar with the report i'm aware that some israeli citizens have been detained with respect to why they are being retained detained and the other aspects of your question whether it's because their intelligence services or what they were doing i will defer to the department of justice and the f b i to answer that on march sixth two thousand and two a draft report from the d a said it may well be an organized intelligence gathering activity despite all of this all the israelis were let go without any espionage charges  fox news anchors brit hume and carl cameron would do a four part investigation into these allegations in december of two thousand and one and yield stunning results it has been more than sixteen years since a civilian working for the navy was charged with passing secrets to israel jonathan pollard pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and is serving a life sentence at first it was part of a rogue operation but later took responsibility for his work now fox is learned some u s investigators believe that the israel is again very much engaged in spying and on the u s since september eleventh more than sixty israelis have been arrested or detained either under the new patriot antiterrorism law or for immigration violations by handful of active israeli military were among those detained according to investigators who say some of the detainees also failed polygraph questions when asked about alleged surveillance activities against and in the united states investigators suspect that the israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance and not shared it a highly placed investigator said there are quote but when asked for details he flatly refused to describe them saying quote evidence linking these israelis to nine one one is classified i cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered it's classified information now when the f b i investigated it quickly unraveled to be the largest foreign spy ring ever uncovered inside the united states the largest even the soviet union had not been spying on the united states as much as israel has been doing so the f b i started to round up these spies they started to arrest them very quietly and they were about halfway through this process of rounding up this spy ring when nine eleven happened numerous classified documents obtained by fox news indicate that even prior to september eleventh as many as one hundred forty other israelis had been tamed or arrested in a secretive and sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by israelis in the united states investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a working group that's been compiling evidence since the mid ninety's these documents detail hundreds of incidents in cities and towns across the country that investigators say quote may well be an organized intelligence gathering activity the first part of the investigation focuses on israelis who say they are art students from the university of jerusalem and baza ule academy documents say they quote targeted and penetrated military bases the d n a f b i and dozens of other government facilities and even secret offices and unlisted private homes of law enforcement and intelligence personnel the majority of those questioned quote stated they served in military intelligence electronic surveillance intercept and or explosive ordinance units why would israelis spy in and on the u s general accounting office investigation referred to israel as country a and said quote according to a u s intelligence agency the government of country conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the u s of any u s ally the document concludes quote israel possesses the resources and technical capability to achieve its collection objectives what about this question of advance knowledge of what was going to happen on nine eleven how clear are investigators that some israeli agents may have known something well it's very explosive information obviously and there's a great deal of evidence that they say they have collected none of it necessarily conclusive it's more when they put it all together a bigger question they say is how could they not have known almost a direct quote it is now apparent that this intelligence rank was inside the u s had prior knowledge or nine eleven and had a classified role in nine eleven which officials refused to discuss it was also able to penetrate u s intelligence agencies and secret offices yet were released the men who were detained due to the report they were taping the first plane crash and then celebrating and joking about it actually went on television and admitted it was their job to record the attack and at that point we were taken for another round of questioning this time related to our allegedly being members of mossad only the fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily our purpose was to document the event how could they have known about the attack and who sent them to document it the evidence points to a large intelligence network inside the united states that had teams on the ground such as the ones recording the attack and electronic surveillance teams gathering information another team who was involved that day detonated explosives on the ground how these teams obtain their information that investigation on our side basically tracked back to two companies the first one was called amdocs this is an israeli owned company which does the billing for ninety percent of the telephone companies inside the united states fox news has learned that some american terrorism investigators fear certain the suspects in the september eleventh attacks may have managed to stay ahead of them by knowing who and when investigators are calling on the telephone and billing in the u s are done for the phone companies by amdocs a limited and israeli based private telecommunications company amdocs has contracts with the twenty five biggest phone companies in america and more worldwide it is virtually impossible to make a call on normal phones without generating amdocs record of it in recent years the f b i and other government agencies have investigated amdocs more than once sources tell news that in one thousand nine hundred nine the super secret national security agency headquartered in northern maryland issued what's called a top secret sensitive compartmentalized information report ts sci warning that records of calls in the united states were getting into foreign hands in israel in particular fox news has learned that the n s a has held numerous classified conferences to warn the f b i and cia how amdocs records could be used for if you know the name of a police officer or even if you know the name  informant you can follow that network of who's talking to who and basically determine that whole association of names and contacts that represent that unit of operation fox news has documents of  hundred ninety seven drug trafficking case in los angeles in which telephone information the types that amdocs collects was used to quote completely compromised the communications of the f b i the secret service the da and the l a p d amdocs would not be the only company with ties to the israeli government israel was also gathering information from a separate business comverse infosys was also listening in this company inside the united states and maintains the phone tapping equipment that law enforcement and the government used to eavesdrop on your phone calls the company is comverse infosys a subsidiary of an israeli run private telecommunications firm with offices throughout the u s it provides wiretapping equipment for law enforcement here's how wiretapping works in the u s every time you make a call it passes through the nation's elaborate network of switchers and routers run by the phone companies custom computers and software made by companies like com are tied into that network to intercept record and store the wiretap calls and at the same time transmit them to investigators we know we just had this feasibility go through that  granted immunity to the telecom companies it was converse info system that was setting up all these special rooms in all the switching centers where the law enforcement or the government or whoever could simply push a button and listen your phone call gone of the days of the little alligator clips and wires needed to eavesdrop on a phone call they can sit in a room anywhere in america touch a few buttons and listen to your phone call but the complaint about this system is that the wiretap computer programs made by congress have in effect a back door through which wire taps themselves can be intercepted by unauthorized parties adding to the suspicions is the fact that in israel converse works closely with the israeli government and under special programs gets reimbursed for up to fifty percent of its research and development costs by the israeli ministry of industry and trade but investigators within the d e a s ins and f b i have all told fox news that to pursue or even suggest israeli spying congress is considered career suicide and sources say that while various f b i inquiries into congress have been conducted over the years they've been halted before the actual equipment has ever been thoroughly tested for leaks more to the point agents within the u government have been told point blank that to even suggest israeli spying or an israel link to nine eleven is career suicide it's been described as the third rail of american politics if you touch it you die you never get to come back again it's all over the black pit where you can never go but there is a bitter turf war internally at f b i it is the f b i office in quantico virginia that has jurisdiction over awarding contracts and buying intercept equipment and for years they've thrown much of the business to come burst a handful of former u s law enforcement officials involved in awarding congress government contracts over the years now work for the company numerous sources say some of those individuals were asked to leave government service under what knowledgeable sources call troublesome circumstances that remain under administrative review within the justice department and what troubles investigators most particularly in new york in the counterterrorism investigation of the world terror world trade center attack is that on a number of cases suspects that they had sought to wiretap and surveil immediately changed their telecommunications processes they started acting much differently as soon as those supposedly secret wiretaps wanted to place somehow suspected terrorists who  being surveilled by these very israelis were able to change their behavior to elude the f b i israel's former prime minister benjamin netanyahu would boldly state that we are benefiting from one thing and that is the attack on the twin towers and pentagon the united states has wholeheartedly supported actually state sponsored terrorism both domestically in israel and as part of israeli's foreign policy american relationship with israel is the root cause of most of the problems the united states is facing around the world today well i would say this that this is one big elephant in the living room it's never messed about people don't like to put it on any video or anything like that but confirmation of these allegations against israel would finally come in january of zero eight when the times online would tell f b i whistleblower subelements story this turkish translator for the f b i found an international spy ring that included israel turkey and pakistan working with household names within the united states she was gagged and to this day has been unable to tell her entire account edmon stated that one high level official was aiding foreign operatives against u s interests by passing them highly classified information not only from the state department but also from the pentagon in exchange for money position and political objectives the article stated that the turks and israelis had planted moles in military and academic institutions which handled nuclear technology the pakistani operation was led by general mahmoud i met then the i chief intelligence analysts say that the members of the i s i were close to al qaeda before and after nine eleven a med was accused of sanctioning a hundred thousand dollar wire payment to muhammad ali one of the nine eleven hijackers immediately before the attacks oddly enough general med would be in washington d c meeting with george tenet the current director of the cia and others in the weeks before the attacks in fact on the morning of nine eleven itself you would be having breakfast with senator bob graham and porter goss these two men would co chair the initial congressional investigation and goss would later become the head of the c go on p b s and have this say i was surprised at the evidence that there were foreign governments involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the terrorist in the united states i am stunned that we not done a better job of pursuing that to determine if other terrorist received similar support and even more important if the infrastructure of a foreign government assisting terrorists still exist most of that information is classified i think overly classified i believe the american people should know the extent of the challenge that we face in terms of foreign government involvement in that report twenty seven pages would be completely redacted sponsor behind nine eleven i think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorist were assisted not just in fundraising financing although that was part of it by a sovereign foreign government the day after the attacks it was apparent that some people within the government were aware of the pakistani funding of al qaeda to help one country you didn't mention i was pakistan and i understand that your deputy has spoken with  with pakistani officials today it would be useful to point out to the pakistani leadership at every level helpful it might be if we find a basis to act on that information senator jo also met with the head of the pakistani i s i would have harsh words on the senate floor and the word should go out to those  if they wish to be our friends that they're going to have to make some very difficult choices pakistan in particular is going to have to make a very difficult choice very soon heard will not be sufficient actions will be demanded when biden was confronted he confirmed his meeting with a man saying pakistani intelligence was indeed funding the taliban pakistan was set up as a silent funding arm of the hijackers they were used as a launching base for the occupation of afghanistan to review we have just learned that many of the hijackers had ties to u s military installations the f b i and the cia that both israel and pakistan have classified rules in nine eleven to this day and the man who co chair the initial investigation into nine eleven stated this information would be classified for at least twenty to thirty years really none of the information was in the nine eleven commission report instead you are expected to believe that osama bin laden carried out the attacks alone yet two wars and seven years later he's still on the loose the bipartisan commission was full of insiders who whitewashed the events of that day to the point it was comical five years after the horrors of nine eleven there's a new way to look at those unforgettable images through color caricature and captions comic book veterans ernie cologne and sid jacobson brought to life the nine eleven commission report it took a year and a half to distill six hundred pages down to less than one hundred fifty when you hear about the idea of the nine eleven commission report as essentially a comic book your first reaction is what are you crazy thank you and i mean the graphic which is accurate that's what happened thomas kean was the co chair of the commission with lee hamilton they would write a book together called without precedent in it he would claim that norad and the pentagon did not tell the truth and that indictments were considered if the report itself was inaccurate how could the comic book be thomas kean is now traveling the country in order to instruct teachers on how to teach nine eleven to their young impressionable minds the nine eleven commission was such a cover up that max cleeland an appointed member went off on wolf with a deal announced yesterday between the white house and the commission investigating the september eleventh attacks is proving to be rather controversial under the agreement only certain members of the commission will be allowed to review classified documents from the white house and their notes will be subject to administration review today some relatives of people who were killed in the attacks criticized the agreement and our next guest who is a member of the commission claimed the deal is disgusting former georgia senator max cleland a democrat joins me here where you've used the word deal three times i don't think the nine eleven commission makes deals with our own government under their responsibility we have from the congress and our responsibility to the american people why does all the facts to get all the facts about all the commissioners look at those facts now we've had to subpoena the f a a for those documents we've had to subpoena norad for those documents island favor  aing the white house for the documents we need so that all the commissioners can get to see all the documents that we need that's the only way we can face the american people and the families and say we have done a thorough investigation independently of the white house and the entire executive branch as the president has said only a minority of the commission can see a minority the documents and then they have to clear what they're going to say to the rest of the commission with the white house if you're one of those four that gets the see these documents would that change your opinion no they don't want any more eyeballs to see their documents that they could possibly get away with it's a scam it's absolutely disgusting cleveland would later resign well they have to have something to cover up and the nine eleven commission of course was a master of cover up we know that question is what it was covering up i don't believe the reports on september eleventh put out by the nine eleven commission or by congress i've seen one put out by the nine eleven commission and it was basically hundreds of pages of nothing it was very generic it was very indirect indistinct devoid of facts devoid of  positions it was things like mistakes were made we need to improve human intelligence this is nothing i mean yes i stand for truth justice and the american way but it was vapid an understatement is that congress's role is oversight and congress even today you'll see members of congress saying well we haven't implemented everything that the nine one one commission recommended and the nih one commissioners have said staff statements as an indictment it's possible others have done that we have not and that tom and i have heard repeated praises from people in your business in the media business thanking us for the quality of those statements lately i was second out and by the way i never ever would correct the vice chairman but i'm afraid i'm afraid i did characterize one of those statements as an indictment  so how can you start with a document that you know is false and and take that to the american people as a document by which  congress's accomplishment should be measured dennis kucinich would present thirty five articles of impeachment against the bush administration in june of two thousand and eight he would stand before the house for almost three hours before reading the last few articles which were regarding nine eleven he alleged that the administration had not acted on specific warnings prior to nine eleven that they had attempted to cover this information up and they tried to stop any commission from being organized in regards to investigating the attack article thirty three repeatedly ignored and failed to respond to high level intelligence warnings of planned terrorist attacks in the united states prior to nine eleven in his conduct while president of the united states george w bush in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and to the best of his ability preserve pro tax and defend the constitution of the united states and in violation of his constitutional duty under article two section three of the constitution to take care that the laws be faithfully executed has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates together with the vice president failed in his constitutional duties to take proper steps to protect the nation prior to september eleventh two thousand and one so the congressional report was redacted and the nine even bin laden himself warned us three weeks earlier on a bin laden one three weeks ago that he would attack american interest in an unprecedented attack a very big one there was a report you'll recall that the mossad the israeli intelligence ac did indeed s laden was determined to strike the united states in fact the the label on the president's p t bay was going on determined to strike the united states on august sixth two thousand and one president bush was presented a president's daily brief article titled bin laden determined to strike in us the lead sentence of that president's daily brief indicated that bin laden and his followers wanted to follow the example world trade center bomber ramzi yousef and bring the fighting to america the article cited a more sensational threat reporting that bin laden wanted to hijack s aircraft the president's daily brief item included information from the f b i indicating patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for  hijackings the president broke his silence today about the revelations earlier this week that he'd been briefed before september eleventh about a possible al qaeda hijacking plot the comments took place in the white house south lawn setting where the press could not ask questions while he was honoring the air force football team his comments diverted to what has become topic a in washington d c you know what's interesting about washington it's a town unfortunately it's the kind of place where second guessing has become second nature what i want to say to my my democratic friends in the congress is they need to be very cautious not to seek political advantage by making incendiary suggestions as were made by some today that the white house had advance information that would have prevented the tragic attacks of nine eleven confirms that in june july and august two thousand and one the central intelligence agency warned the president in daily briefings unprecedented indications that a major al qaeda attack was going to happen against the united states it was so well known that the united states had done several drills with this exact scenario prior to nine eleven we're going to take a closer look tonight at another example of where despite the conventional wisdom there were people in the united states who actually were preparing to defend against the kind of attacks which occurred here on nine eleven the north american aerospace defense command norad for short has been defending the skies over the u s and canada for almost fifty years forty six to be precise usa today reports that in the two years before the attacks on september the eleventh norad conducted exercises using hijacked airliners as weapons and one target was the world trade center as a b c s brian ross president bush has said again and again that no one could have imagined what osama bin laden ordered for september eleventh we knew he hated us but there was no way our government at least and i don't think the prior government could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale that turns out not to be true s military planners did in vision and practice those various scenarios as reported by usa today north american aerospace defense command norad conducted exercises with fighter jets simulating hijacked planes flown into the world trade center in the two years before the attacks pentagon planners also with those in the attack on the pentagon five months before it happened one of these drills was run on june first and second of two thousand and one amalgam virgo was an exercise where multiple attacks in areas would be occurring simultaneously including attacks from cruise missiles unmanned aerial vehicles and hijack aircraft the scenario also envisioned a hijacker taking control of a commercial aircraft and slamming it into the nation's capital the exercises would constantly be monitored by military satellites and planes osama bin laden was the poster boy for this plot appearing on the cover isn't it a facts are that prior to september eleventh two thousand and one who norad had already in the works plans to simulate in an exercise a simultaneous hijacking of two planes in the united states first got you have any doubt on that i'm not aware of that sphere i was not present at the time that was operation amalgam virgo so what did happen on nine eleven the truth is there was a lot more going on that day than we are being told there were several war games