This is Sander Hicks's hot new interview with Kevin Fenton, author of Disconnecting the Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed to Happen (TrineDay, 2011) — one of the most rigorously sourced books ever written on the run-up to September 11th. Fenton's research names names: inside the CIA's Alec Station, officers Richard Blee and Tom Wilshire sat on intelligence about two known al-Qaeda operatives — intelligence that should have gone straight to the FBI. It didn't, for eighteen months, while future 9/11 hijackers lived openly in San Diego. Fenton traces the thread all the way back to NSA intercepts from an al-Qaeda hub in Yemen. The withholding isn't in dispute — it's documented, on the record, straight from declassified files. The open question is why. Was it incompetence? A protected operation that spun out of control? Fenton and Hicks dig into it live. This is expert witness testimony for the court of public opinion.
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