Discussion on CIA and Mossad Involvement in 9/11

Do you think the CIA or Mossad played any part

or at least had prior

knowledge to 9/11?

Oh, that's a great question. Um,

I-- You know what? Let me start on July the 6th, 2001.

Normal day.

Uh, that day I was entertaining a group of

mid-level Middle

Eastern intelligence officers. This is something we did every single

day. You give them a day of briefings, you take them upstairs to

shake hands with the director, get their picture taken,

we exchange gifts,

and then we take them out to a fancy dinner at the end of the night.

That day,

I had scheduled a briefing with a junior Al-Qaeda analyst from the

Counterterrorism Center at ten o'clock.

So at ten o'clock, knock on the door. I open the door.

It's not the junior twenty-five-year-old Al-Qaeda analyst.

It's the Director of Counterterrorism for the entire CIA,

Cofer Black, and, and the head of operations for the Osama

bin Laden unit,

a woman we used to call the Red-Headed Devil.

And she's lucky we were that nice about it, too.

So Cofer and the Red-Headed Devil came in, and I was shocked.

I, I stood up, I said, "Oh." I said, "Gentlemen, gentlemen, this is, uh,

this is

Cofer Black. He's the director of the CIA's

Counterterrorism Center.

Ambassador Black, this is, you know, blah, blah, blah."

And he sits down. I had no idea why he was there and why he had

preempted this junior analyst. And he starts by saying,

"Something terrible is going to happen.

We don't know exactly when or where, but we know it's going to be an

attack on an unprecedented scale.

We're picking up chatter from the Al-Qaeda training camps.

We're hearing camp commanders on the phone with their students, and they're

crying and telling them, 'I'll see you in paradise.'

We're hearing code words for a massive attack.

The honey salesman is coming with vast quantities of honey.

There's gonna be a huge wedding or a huge soccer game."

And he said, "I'm begging you, if you have any

sources inside Al-Qaeda, please help us."

And they just sat there and looked at him.

And then he got up, he shook their hands, they walked out.

At the end of the day, I sent them back to the hotel.

I said, "I'll pick you up in three hours.

We'll go to dinner." But I went back to Cofer's office to thank

him.

And I said, "Cofer, I have to ask you, I don't work on Al-Qaeda

day to day." This was, like I say, two months before 9/11.

I said, "Did you say that for their benefit, or did

you mean it?"

And he said, "Oh, I meant it. Something terrible is going to happen."

On the morning of September 11th,

it's quaint now to say it, but Cofer and I had a meeting with Condoleezza Rice,

who

was the national security advisor at the time, over the silliest issue.

There's a,

there's a, a small, almost unknown little government

agency called the GPO, the Government Printing Office,

and they just print all the reports and books and declassified

silliness that comes out of government.

They were publishing a book called Foreign Affairs of the United States:

Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, 1949-1967,

and it was just declassified cables.

Nobody is ever gonna read this book, ever.

I'd be surprised if they ever actually printed any copies.

But in the twelve hundred pages were the names of three CIA sources

who were still alive,

and we have an obscure law in this country

that if the government outs a CIA source, the

government has to offer the source American citizenship.

Well, these guys are all a hundred years old.

None of them are gonna take the American citizenship.

So we were meeting with Condi Rice to say, "Just pull the pages out or black

out the names or something. Nobody's ever gonna look anyway."

So I get a call, um, from the driver saying he

was ready to take us

to the White House. So I walk up to Cofer's office, and his

secretary,

her desk was right outside the office.

These were the days before you could watch TV on your computer, so she had a little

tiny TV on her desk, and one of the buildings,

one of the towers of the World

Trade Center was burning. I said, "What happened to the World Trade Center?"

And she said, uh, "A plane flew into it."

And I always say it because I'm so smart.

I said, "You know, that happened once before.

In 1930, a bomber flew into the Empire State

Building,

but it was really foggy and raining heavily that day.

It's so crystal clear today. How can you not see

that you're flying into the World

Trade Center?"

And as soon as the words came out of my mouth, the second plane hit.

And she turns to me and she says, "Did you see that, or did I

imagine it?"

And I ran back to my office. I said, "Guys,

two planes just hit both towers of the

World Trade Center. I think we're under attack.

I think this is what Cofer was talking about in July."

So everybody runs back up to the, to the front of the office

and,

and it was all downhill from there.

So

I go to Pakistan a couple of months later,

and in March, we capture Abu Zubaydah.

When we caught Abu Zubaydah, we also captured his diary.

And in the diary, it was a fascinating, fascinating document.

He was an accomplished artist. He would write poetry, letters

to himself as a young man, like warning himself, "Treat our mother

with respect. Don't whistle at that girl in the village." You know,

stuff like

that.

But he also had the private cell phone numbers of three

Saudi princes.

Hmm.

So I wrote to headquarters. I said, "Be advised.

I'm looking at Abu Zubaydah's, you know, whatever this is.

It appears to be a diary, and he's got the private cell phone

numbers of these

three Saudi princes."

So we go to the Saudis, and we said, "We want these guys, or

we're gonna start killing people, and some of them are gonna be named Al

Saud."

Next thing you know,

one of them goes in for bariatric surgery because they're all giant fat

pigs. He goes into bariatric surgery and dies on the

operating table. One is driving on

the Riyadh to Jiddah highway and is killed in a one-car accident.

And the third one goes camping in the desert and dies of thirst.

So they said, "Sorry, we really wanted to turn them over to

you,

but we can't now."

That led me to believe, and subsequent revelations led me to

believe, that the

Saudis were involved.

Plus the fact that the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin

Sultan Al Saud, his wife wired fifty thousand

dollars to the hijackers

before the attacks.

They've never answered for that, number one.

Number two, we've all heard the stories of the dancing

Israelis and,

and the Israeli, uh, the, whatever it is,

eighteen thirty-six, however many it was, Israelis that were arrested

after 9/11 and held for several weeks and then finally released.

Obviously Mossad agents.

I do not believe that the Mossad was involved in

the 9/11 attacks. What I believe is that the Mossad had infiltrated

Al-Qaeda,

knew that the attacks were coming,

knew that they would likely be in New York,

and purposely didn't tell us because they knew that our response would

be that we would kill two million Muslims in the

next twenty years, which is exactly what we did, and that benefited

Israeli foreign policy.