PBS FRONTLINE: The Man Who Knew -- Part 1 of 8

[LodovicoAriosto1]

The man who spent years studying al-quaeda, attack on USS Cole, linking terrorists to each other was fired a week before 9/11 because he warned of the imminent attack and came to work in WTC where he died.

What a dark sense of humour from the government and other responsible for the attacks.

[puffnizzle]

The CIA told the FBI to take the fall...Read THE BLACK BANNERS by Ali Soufan, one of Mr. O'Neills agents.....The CIA F'D up. The white house F'd up....THE FBI WARNED THEM OVER AND OVER AGAIN...........O'Neill's unit knew right after the USS Cole bombing and the CIA told them to back off the case because it was intelligence not criminal or related to cole

[flamestar1049]

John O'Neill is my friend's uncle who he pointed out in social studies today. I had to look this up for him :""( Wish they would have listened to him.

[JeffreyJaguar]

I was excited to watch this show for the subject matter but disappointed to find what an incompetent fool John O'Neill was. He accomplished nothing with the FBI and failed as chief of security for the World Trade Center. But he wore high-dollar suits and insisted on sitting at the front table of Manhattan restaurants while "misplacing" classified documents along the way, then died as he failed at his profession.

[trajan75]

@JeffreyJaguar Yes,he liked nice clothes and fancy restaurants, he was a bull in a china shop, but if the FBI listened to him they might have prevented 9/11. By the way Jeff, what have you ever accomplished?

[F131F135B551]

@JeffreyJaguar You are a fucking brainless faguar Jeffrey.

[alexdxiehl]

o pior cego e aquele que nao quer ver blind america

[Lipsnx4u]

Thank you, for posting.

[lshocket]

The moral of the story is elect intelligent leaders, no matter the party. Reading security briefs is kind of important.

[irish89055]

@lshocket the moral is that "intelligence expert" is frequently an oxymoron....  Gross incompetence by so many but not all...

[lshocket]

@irish89055 In general, you want intelligent people in places of power and influence and not people you would want to have a beer with. People with the capabilities to run the world don't have time to waste. America needs to nominate/elect people who are boring (like a Mitt Romney) rather than a complete moron who looks fun (Palin/Perry).

[AroundSun]

@lshocket Yes, but a Mitt Romney does not have the character of someone who is intelligent nor does he have any credibility when it comes to: 'Why are you in office'? 'Who put you here'?

[CitizensCommittee]

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh has been forging unholy alliances with Bandar and Saudi Royals since 1996 - a conflict of interest that has not been adequately explored or investigated. Read "The Saudi States of America" by Julia Davis on Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post and you'll understand why O'Neill was stymied and harassed by the FBI when he uncovered Saudi links to terror.

[zoso682]

@shazzbot007

Don't take shazzbot007 too seriously, I saw a comment he did concerning the 2008 near collapse of Americas financial system, in it shazzbot007 vastly oversimplified a very complex financial disaster with some uneducated statements. And also blatantly untrue statements.

(in terrible english might I add)

[irish89055]

@zoso682 I think ole shazzbot may be on to something. I will have to check out that show. Terrible English??? His compound sentence was bettter than yours. So he misspelled profited, capitalized And, then  used a period where a common should have been used, no apostrophes, missed a comma? In this venue he did ok, you pendantic jerk. You ended a sentence with a comma, started one with And. He made good points regarding Paulson and the other incompetents that drove the economy into the ground.

[MrFuhrer2009]

3:19 imagery is JUST beautiful New York World Trade Centre at night hours NICE!

[ahaunting1]

I've watched this specific program numerous times and each time I'm still blown away by this story......

[gyamfio]

@ahaunting1 , You should watch FRONTLINE; Breaking the Bank... for some odd reason, I believe Ken Lewis. It was very uneducated as to how politics and wall street works.. They dumped Merrill Lynch on BoA knowing it was toxic...And Ken took the bait...

[angryfishmonger]

This man was nobodies fool. He used this event as a way to disappear because he knew if he didn't they would do it for him or more likely remove someone close to him