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The Man Who Knew

PBS Frontline details FBI Special Agent John O’Neill’s efforts to sound the alarms about al Qaeda’s growing reach and threat to the U.S., only to be branded a maverick and roundly ignored. O’Neill elf the FBI in the summer of 201 and took a new job as head of security at the World Trade Center, where he died on September 11th.

The 9/11 Commission’s investigation revealed that America’s $30 billion intelligence community, spread over more than a dozen agencies, was disorganized, fractured and impaired by organizational and legal restrictions on the sharing of information.
These disclosures directly relate to John O’Neill’s story. He came tantalizingly close to possibly uncovering the 9/11 plot. But his investigations into the USS Cole terrorist attack and into Al Qaeda’s presence in the United States were both undermined by the CIA and FBI’s failure to share information with each other.

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  1. The best story it showed just stupid our F.B.I. And state dept. when the person does not fit into a excepted mold. 1 . He tired to tell the amb. in yeman and she did not allow him back into yeman he did not fit the state dept. THE COLE was attacked like he tired to warn them. He tired to warn the F.B.I and he did not fit in also the agents that tired to tell the dept. about the flying lesson where they did not want to learn to land or take off the dept. said wrong group of agents did not fit in plus they were in Arizona and Florida and not part of the inter group at the F.B.I. and we paid for it. And the Agent retired and went to work at the trade center were he died on Sept. 11 this a great story and should be told again. Considering the state dept. screw up in Benghazi and now Afghanistan, and we can’t forget Saigon another Republican screw up and some dumb dem’s .FIND THE FRONT LINE STORY IT’S VERY GOOD TODAY.

  2. How about having ex murderers sitting in your parliament like we have here in Ireland. Nothing can be done about it as they were elected.. Mind boggling ignorance …..

  3. The nicest thing you can say about PBS (Propaganda Broadcasting System) is that it makes the official story SOOO believable, all one has to do is believe in 1) complete incompetence in several Federal agencies (not partial, TOTAL) and 2) The suspension of the laws of physics.

  4. I met the 911 terrorists in Canada in 1999 and tried desperately to tell FBI AND Chilliwack, BC RCMP, to no avail. http://911terroristsincanada1999.blogspot.ca/

    they said they were in Canada to learn to fly crop dusters which they planned to use to spray poison over large American cities, and to poison their water. They had come through Walkerton, Ontario just hours before on August 3, 1999.

  5. i believe that the ambassador o yeman should be fired. if he was in command of the cole investigation i have no idea how she would even start to not let him in to that country. also i would like to see somebody peace this all together and start sueing those fat cats or should i say lazy cats who dont want to rock the boat as long as their pockets are getting lined. i feel all the goverment should be turned upside down and thrown out with the morning trash. AND START OVER GET SOME HONEST PEOPLE IN, not people who have made a career of picking the flesh off the bones of the rest of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  6. He was well written of in the media after the “Twin Towers” fell. & from the first “Twin Towers” attack with a car bomb in the basement, he kept warning those on high that this could happen. Listen, they didn’t & fall, did the Twin Towers”. John’s death could have being avoided as well as all the other death’s…if he had been listened to.

    May he rest in Peace.

  7. well now I know; front line likes to gobble up and spew out the bullshit : more soft propaganda from our goods fiends at the corpmedia cesspool.

  8. well now I know; front line likes to gobble up and spew out the bullshit : more soft propaganda from our goods fiends at the corpmedia cesspool.

  9. well now I know; front line likes to gobble up and spew out the bullshit : more soft propaganda from our goods fiends at the corpmedia cesspool.

  10. there are things that people in America don’t understand about this terrorists. it’s impossible to wipe them out because this what they are and what they are living for. you kill them another group would emerge and continue the cycle. things aren’t easy as they same. you are dealing with people who know’s nothing but to die for what they believe in. 

  11. He came so close to uncovering and exposing the Zionist plot to take down the towers and fool the american people in order to fund their “war on terror” bs and oppress and damage Muslim households and families.R.I.P John O’Neill a true American patriot

  12. He came so close to uncovering and exposing the Zionist plot to take down the towers and fool the american people in order to fund their “war on terror” bs and oppress and damage Muslim households and families.R.I.P John O’Neill a true American patriot