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  • The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror
  • By: Bob Graham, Jeffrey Nussbaum
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
  • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)
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Summary

In this explosive, controversial, and profoundly alarming insider’s report, Senator Bob Graham reveals faults in America’s national security network severe enough to raise fundamental questions about the competence and honesty of public officials in the CIA, the FBI, and the White House.

For 10 years, Senator Graham served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he had access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Graham co-chaired a historic joint House-Senate inquiry into the intelligence community’s failures. 

From that investigation and his own personal fact-finding, Graham discovered disturbing evidence of terrorist activity and a web of complicity:

  • At one point, a terrorist support network conducted some of its operations through Saudi Arabia’s U.S. embassy - and a funding chain for terrorism led to the Saudi royal family. 
  • In February 2002, only four months after combat began in Afghanistan, the Bush administration ordered General Tommy Franks to move vital military resources out of Afghanistan for an operation against Iraq - despite Franks’s privately stated belief that there was a job to finish in Afghanistan, and that the war on terrorism should focus next on terrorist targets in Somalia and Yemen. 
  • Throughout 2002, President Bush directed the FBI to limit its investigations of Saudi Arabia, which supported some and possibly all of the September 11 hijackers.
  • The White House was so uncooperative with the bipartisan inquiry that its behavior bore all the hallmarks of a cover-up.
  • The FBI had an informant who was extremely close to two of the September 11 hijackers, and actually housed one of them, yet the existence of this informant and the scope of his contacts with the hijackers were covered up.
  • There were 12 instances when the September 11 plot could have been discovered and potentially foiled. 
  • Days after 9/11, U.S. authorities allowed some Saudis to fly, despite a complete civil aviation ban, after which the government expedited the departure of more than one hundred Saudis from the United States. 
  • Foreign leaders throughout the Middle East warned President Bush of exactly what would happen in a postwar Iraq, and those warnings went either ignored or unheeded. 

As a result of his Senate work, Graham has become convinced that the attacks of September 11 could have been avoided, and that the Bush administration’s war on terrorism has failed to address the immediate danger posed by al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia. His book is a disturbing reminder that at the highest levels of national security, now more than ever, intelligence matters. 

©2004 Senator Bob Graham and J. Nussbaum (P)2004 Books on Tape, Inc.

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FIRST TIME A SENATOR HAS STOOD UP FOR THE TRUTH

This book is a must read for all that are interested in this time period. I don't believe 9/11 to be a false flag or fake or even the government did it. I believe exactly as Sen Graham has said in this book. This could have been avoided several times over and by several different agencies and states not passing and sharing information. The CIA was the first major agency that was not only incompetent but trying to ILLEGALLY handle terrorist groups inside the US and didn't want to involve or inform the FBI. The FBI higher ups didn't become aware of the potential terrorist watch suspects already in or possibly in America until months later and not long before 9/11. By the time they where informed the suspect's had moved around all over the US. The street level FBI agents in different states where begging for warrants etc to get access to the terrorist that they caught acting strangely at the flight centre. If they had been given a warrant it would have stopped 9/11 before it happened due to the plot being in his laptop. The second Bush found out about where the terrorists where from Saudi Arabia and the massive failure in his agencies to foil the attacks on several occasions. The decision was made to cover it up. It's disgusting for all the victims who perished on that day and decades later due to the toxins etc. The very least the Bush government could have done was tell the family members the truth and get them to sign NDA never to tell. And offer to do better in the future. The whole administration was not caring about what was happening in their country and more interested in getting to Iraq. Shocking that this seems. The fact the government under both Bush and Obama passed law that stops the families from gaining compensation from Saudi Arabia. That's because? Oil obviously because Saudi Arabia have nothing else to give America apart from oil and buying arms and war equipment. This book is a must. Sen Graham has restored my faith in at least one senator standing up and asking the hard questions and knowing that there have been major failures still never backed away. The Bush administration had 9/11 as an after thought and talking point from the second day. It was war and Iraq and first they had to go in to Afghanistan. The best part of this was Bin Laden wasn't in Afghanistan any longer for them to hand him over. He was in the mountains and heading to Pakistan. The middle east is a war zone all over. Bush should be brought to justice for what he's done to the 9/11 family members. Who just want the truth and have some sort of piece. Then the mainstream media networks all repeating every word that the administration said. They are meant to at the very least work for their readers and viewers. Not be puppets like Russia Today network.

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