Soon thereafter, alonger version of the AP storyappeared to back up their theory. Most of the key details remain unsourced, but retired CIA officer Marty Martin, who once led the hunt for bin Laden, claimed, “[w]e got beat up for it, but those efforts led to this great day.” Thus...
Another building in the World Trade Center complex, WTC 7, which housed CIA offices, collapsed several hours later. The official explanation is that severe structural damage from the towers' debris and subsequent fire caused WTC 7's collapse, but conspiracy theorists don't buy that. They believe...
The biometric software system that CIA offers is based on a product from Cross Match, a US company specialized in biometric software for law enforcement and the intelligence community, which was also used to "identify Osama bin Laden during the assassination operation in Pakistan." Previous Vault ...
2, 2009, just over four months into his presidency, Obama had signed a memo to CIA Director Leon Panetta stating “in order to ensure that we have expanded every effort, I direct you to provide me within 30 days a detailed operation plan for locating and bringing to justice” bin Laden....
One former RRT officer recalled asking his CIA handler why they did not want the trainees to know their location in the US. “We have good intentions and do not act in bad faith. But the United States is not prepared to repeat its errors with Osama bin La...
A 2014 CIA report even says that waterboarding is not effective for acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees. Unlike some politicians claim, Osama bin Laden was not captured after a breakthrough using waterboarding, but through conventional interrogation methods. ...
Aerial view of Osama bin Laden's compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, made by the CIA. SEAL Team Six starts training for the raid in a replica of the compound. On April 29, 2011, President Barack Obama authorized a small special operations team, known as SEAL Team Six, to carr...
In February of 2004, the CIA announced there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion. In October, video footage of Osama bin Laden aired on Arab state-sanctioned television, in which he threatened to terrorize the U.S. and mocked President Bush ...
we should not have an irrational fear of terrorism. On 9/11 Al-Qaeda got very lucky, those fifteen people hijackers got very lucky. There was no TSA and there was no Department of Homeland Security. On 9/11, the FBI and CIA were barely talking and there were ...
In February of 2004, the CIA announced there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion. In October, video footage of Osama bin Laden aired on Arab state-sanctioned television, in which he threatened to terrorize the U.S. and mocked President Bush ...