The Darkened Hour

An Interview With Dave DeCamp (The Yemen Crisis)

Dave DeCamp is the News editor of of Antiwar.com and Host of "Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp". In today's episode, Richard Cox and myself join Dave DeCamp to talk about the current crisis in Yemen. How the war started, the terrorist Al Qaeda affiliates involved, how the United States got involved by aiding weapons to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the future prospects of peace in the region. The conflict has witnessed many horrors, including the approximate deaths of over 400,000 people, and over 1.2 million Yemeni's displaced which has caused a massive overhaul of immigration problems in nearby cities. DeCamp also speaks on the World Health Organization which talks about the violence in the country and the close proximity to the health facilities, impeding their ability to function and restricting the movement of health staff, patients and ambulances and how the military industrial complex continues to benefit to the tomes of billions as the conflict rages on with full support of the Trump and Biden administrations.Dave DeCamp articles at Antiowar.com:https://original.antiwar.com/author/Dave_DeCamp/Antiwar News With Dave DeCamp:https://www.youtube.com/@antiwarnews/videos

A US Government Standstill: How The September 11th Terrorist Attacks Were Successful

As American Airlines Flight 11 steered directly into the World Trade Center's North Tower, the response by mostly everyone watching or hearing about it was unsurprising, many were in shock and in a state of paralysis. As United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower, however, many people believed the nation was under a terrorist attack. What was the government response? In this episode i specify the actions and inactions made by certain officials and the complete and utter incompetence of specific people who seemed to have either been caught "off guard" or simply just paralyzed to undertake any action that could have prevented attacks on the nations capitol and in Pennsylvania at the very least.

Urban Moving Systems Rewind (The Complete Version)

One of the most infamous and maligned conspiracies involving the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks has been the story of the Israeli moving company, Urban Moving Systems, and the three Israeli employees that were found celebrating the attack of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. When the East Rutherford Police Department later detailed these individuals, there seemed to be much more to their backgrounds than what was originally suspected. When the FBI field office in Newark. New Jersey became involved, it was led by Kevin Donovan (Special Agent in Charge) (SAC). Over the following 71 days until they were deported, the FBI and East Rutherford Police uncovered what seemed to be, a large illegal foreign intelligence operation, which are from Israel, which may have obtained specific data regarding the hijackers involved with the terrorist attacks. I read from, the FBI and East Rutherford redacted reports and fill in some of those blanks to the best of my knowledge using articles and archives of documents as well as media reports from the days after the events of September 11th 2001.
Dancing Israelis Police and FBI Reports 9/11/01:
https://archive.org/stream/DancingIsraelisFBIReport/fbi%20report%20section%202_djvu.txt

The Genesis Of Arab Fundamentalism (Abdullah Yusef Azzam & Maktab al-Khidamat)

When the Soviets invaded the capitol of Afghanistan in 1979, Kabul, the Islamic community declared a fatwa against the secular communists from the North. Inn doing so, hundreds of thousands of Arabs from all over the world heeded the call. Making up less than 10% of the fighting force, they hardly made an impression. All except for two individuals, a Palestinian imam, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and a wealthy Saudi, Osama Bin Laden. Both men served as examples for the Afghan and Arab Mujahedeen fighters who battled long and heavy against the Soviets. By the near end of the conflict, Azzam had fell out of favor with the Arabs who gravitated towards the silent but stout, Bin Laden who by now had the full protection of Egyptian militants from groups like Egyptian Islamic Jihad under Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was let out of prison for his suspected role in the assassination of the Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat. By 1990, Azzam was assassinated, and Bin Laden and the Arab Mujahedeen had returned back to their native countries. Some, went to the United States, and continued the jihad there. Years later, many terrorist attacks in the country and outside of it, were precipitated by their years of training and funding from the intelligence services who gave them money, weapons and logistical support to defeat the Soviets. Now the war was against the very country who assisted them, in the United States. Had the CIA and US State Department not realized that the very monster they unleashed against the Soviets would return to haunt them? 

The Bush White House War On The Constitution: How 9/11 Gave Unchecked Authority To Bush, CIA And The NSA

In the immediate aftermath of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, US President George W. Bush, along with members of the White House Legal Counsel, went to work on circumventing domestic laws and the Constitution on two programs. The bypassing of the Geneva Convention for those suspected or labeled "enemy combatants" and the NSA warrantless wiretapping of Americans. On September 14th 2001, the Senate voted unanimously, 420 to 1, to expand on more unlimited War Powers for the President. John Yoo, Deputy Chief of the Justice Department, and Timothy Flanagan, lawyer for the White House Counsel Office, began to draft legislation by passing the Constitution regarding the Presidents checked authority during times of war, while David Addington, Cheney's person lawyer, began drafting memos regarding the Presidents authority to label any suspected of terrorism as an "enemy combatant".
Meanwhile, leading Neoconservatives such as Douglas Feith, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz began pressuring Bush to engage Iraq militarily, even if no intelligence was found linking them to the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington DC. The CIA were given full authority from Bush to begin the "rendition and torture" programs which were given no vetting from any independent agency. On November 13th 2001, John Yoo had sanctioned White House plans to give the Defense Department sole authority to decide which terrorists will be tried in Military Commissions. These dangerous memos and pieces of legislation could very well, one day, be met against us,, the American people. 

An Interview With James Corbett (False Flags: The Secret History Of Al Qaeda)

James Corbett is an award-winning investigative journalist, who has lectured on geopolitics at the University of Groningen's Studium Generale, and delivered presentations on open source journalism at The French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation's fOSSa conference, at TedXGroningen and at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. He started The Corbett Report website in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics. Since then he has written, recorded and edited thousands of hours of audio and video media for the website, including a podcast and several regular online video series. His latest series "False Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda" is a three part docu-series which details the initial and past history of the ultra-orthodox sect Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden.False Flags: The Secret History Of Al Qaeda:https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/alqaeda1:bThe Corbett Report:https://www.corbettreport.com/

An Interview With Ben & Erik (The Podcast For The New American Century)

Ben and Erik, created a 9/11 geopolitically themed podcast where the public can learn about the obscure anomalies that are found in the "pre-intelligence" operations of September 11th 2001. Along with discussions surrounding US foreign policy, national security, Israel-Saudi policy issues, and foreign intelligence, Ben and Erik tend to bring a "lighter" attitude in these very tenebrous subjects. Relatively new, the PNAC duo are quite learned in their geopolitical discussions which give their listeners a full education on the many various subjects entwined with the terrorist events of September 11th 2001. In today's episode, we speak about Ben and Erik's journey into this expansive subject of 9/11, what their motivations are for the future, the intelligence history of Al Qaeda, Bojinka Plot, the 1998 East Africa bombings, the Yemen Hub, the history of Alec Station, and the Israeli-Saudi foreign intelligence operations which were involved with monitoring the 9/11 hijackers and Al Qaeda affiliates.The Podcast For The New American Century:https://podnac.libsyn.com/

Operation Encore: The FBI’s Investigation Of Saudi Arabia And The September 11 2001 Terrorist Attacks

Immediately after the terrorist incidents of September 11th 2001, the FBI  conducted the largest criminal inquiry in it's history. Thousands of leads started to come into the bureau, and the Saudi link was impossible to ignore. The operation's code name, PENTTBOM, it's name stands for "Pentagon/Twin Towers Bombing Investigation". The investigation was launched on September 11, 2001, and involved 4,000 special agents and 3,000 professional employees. On September 27, 2001, the FBI released photos of the 19 hijackers, along with information about the possible nationalities and aliases of many. Among the many affiliates and others who assisted logistical and financial support to the 9/11 operatives, were Saudi officials such as Fahad al-Thumairy, Omar al-Bayoumi, Osama Basnan, Musaed al-Jarrah, Sam Mustafa, Mohdhar Abdullah and Anwar al-Awlaki. Yet, much of the information from the FBI's PENNTBOM report, was classified, and names were redacted in a congressional inquiry headed by the House and Senate Select Committee, known as the "28 pages".
Years later the 9/11 victims families asked US President Donald Trump to release documents from the FBI’s investigation into the 9/11 plot, documents that the Justice Department has long fought to keep secret. Later, the families were told that Trump ordered the attorney general, William P. Barr, to release the name of a Saudi diplomat who was linked to the 9/11 plot in an FBI report years earlier. Justice Department lawyers handed over the Saudi official’s name in a protected court filing that could be read only by lawyers for the plaintiffs. But Barr dashed the families’ hopes. The full story of the FBI’s investigation into Saudi links to the 9/11 attacks has remained largely untold. 
However, in 2020 Propublica in partnership with the New York Times Magazine published an article entitled "Operation Encore and the Saudi Connection: A Secret History of the 9/11 Investigation". Operation Encore, the FBI's "follow up" to PENTTBOM, where a group of FBI agents found evidence of a much larger Saudi operation which supported two known Al Qaeda operatives living inside the United States who were later involved with the 9/11 attacks. The Biden administration has declassified a 16-page FBI report tying 9/11 hijackers to Saudi nationals living in the United States. The document, written in 2016, summarized an FBI investigation into those ties called Operation Encore. In today's episode, i talk about the latest and remarkable findings under Executive Order 14040 released on September 3, 2021, which shows a larger Saudi network who collaborated with some of the 9/11 hijackers and who knew they were coming inside the United States as early as December 2000. Operation Encore and the Saudi Connection: A Secret History of the 9/11 Investigation:https://www.propublica.org/article/9-11-investigation-saudi-connections-operation-encore-fbiExecutive Order 14040: Operation Encore Documents:
https://vault.fbi.gov/9-11-attacks-investigation-and-related-materials/9-11-material-released-in-response-to-executive-order-14040

Facts From Fiction: The September 11th 2001 Terrorist Attacks

In this episode, former guest of the show, Ed Brotherton (WeAreChangeLA) joins me in a laid back discussion of revisiting old stories of how we were led down the path of 9/11 and what we once had believed while studying the geopolitical aspects. We also speak on the actual anomalies involving the single most divisive issue that has literally created a "sectarian" divide of sorts on the 91/1 Truth Movement, the incident over what happend at the Pentagon. The signals intelligence operation involving the National Security Agency (NSA) and their foreign and domestic operations of two Al Qaeda terrorists, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation involving certain people at the Bin Laden Issue Station and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that were involved in the "cover-up" afterwards which involved, to this day, the interference of 91/1 victims families in their civil suit case against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We also spoke in depth about the Saudi and Israeli intelligence data collection operations that had seemingly knew about those involved with the 9/11 operators years, that even went back, some years prior to the 9/11 attacks.  We often shoot from the hip here and even involves some "loose" language at times. Nevertheless, thank you Ed Brotherton for this very invigorating discussion about the many facts that were often blanketed by fiction from not just the 9/11 Truth Movement, but also, by the legacy national media and our own federal government.

An Interview With Ben Howard (The Intelligence Community Involvement In Malfeasance And Coverup Pre-9/11)

Ben Howard is an independent researcher. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and daughter. You can follow Ben on Twitter: @housetrotter. Howard has been an ardent, often anonymous, 9/11 and geopolitical writer and student. Just last year he would so-author a 3 part series entitled "The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11" along with Aaron Good and Peter Dale Scott. In this episode, Ben and i discuss the NSA monitor of Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, the Yemen Hub, CIA operations involving surveillance of the Yemen Hub, the high level terrorist summit in Malaysia, the intentional withholding of pertinent information from the FBI concerning al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi entry into the United States while possessing US Visas, the CIA "phishing" the FBI in 2001 concerning al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, Richard Blee and Tom Wilshire's roles in the coverup and hoarding of information. This is part 1 of a series concerning the domestic and foreign intelligence involvement with Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, along with the greater geopolitical goals involved. 
The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11:
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/09/11/the-twenty-year-shadow-of-9-11-u-s-complicity-in-the-terror-spectacle-and-the-urgent-need-to-end-it/American Exception: Empire and the Deep State:
https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510769137/american-exception/