A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of intervi...
The speaker mentioned he had read the book and that there was a good look at the White Helmets in it, but he didn't mention any details or express his opinion on it.
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why do you think you believed it I read really interesting article about him just a few days ago where was it um I forget what what it was you know the expose but a really good look at look at look at...
— Episode: #1266 - Ben Anderson
Episode: #1266 - Ben Anderson
The speaker mentioned he had read the book and that there was a good look at the White Helmets in it, but he didn't mention any details or express his opinion on it.
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why do you think you believed it I read really interesting article about him just a few days ago where was it um I forget what what it was you know the expose but a really good look at look at look at him and I think he's just spent his career believing rightly that the government lies about all kinds of things and that's got him into a point where he thinks well they always lie no matter what so and it's happened to a lot of journalists Robert Fisk Seymour Hersch Martha Gellhorn I mean one my favourite war correspondents of all time I reread some of her stuff recently and the first batch of war reporting she did I think is the best war reporting I've ever read Spanish Civil War Vietnam and then she spent 25 years writing novels and then later on wrote about I believe it was the Yom Kippur War and was denying that massacres had happened and saying you know our Arabs lie they always lie there was no massacre and we now know there was a massacre or there were massacres in the aftermath of these of these wars um so I don't know what happens I mean maybe if you just do this for too long you just become so cynical um that you're open to these things but it's yeah I'm amazed that Seymour Hersch is open to that idea.
Saagar Enjeti repeatedly recommended the book, noting that it provided a deep history of al‑Zawahiri, al‑Qaeda, and the potential Saudi government involvement that shaped the 9/11 attacks, and suggested listeners read it to understand the pre‑9/11 era. Krystal also referenced it as her favorite work on the subject, highlighting its insight into unanswered CIA questions. The hosts consistently presented it as essential reading for anyone wanting a thorough background on the events and motivations behind the attacks.
It was mentioned as a book that listeners could check out to understand the time before 9/11 and how things changed after it.
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There's books like the looming tower and you know things like that that people should check out.
Episode: Stories of Week 7/31: Burn Pits Bill, Schumer-Manc...
It was highly recommended as providing a deep history into Al-Zawahri and the intellectual foundations of his ideology, emphasizing his crucial role in the development of Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks.
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I actually encourage people... the Looming Tower, which I highly recommend people go and read by Lawrence Wright, gives you a deep history into Zawahri and kind of his intellectual foundations.
It was highly recommended as providing a detailed history of al-Zawahiri and his role in the formation of al-Qaeda and the events leading to 9/11.
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I highly recommend people go and read by Lawrence Wright gives you a deep history into Zawahiri and his intellectual foundations.
Episode: Mini Show #35: Congress Corruption, Saudi CIA Meet...
It was said that Lawrence Wright wrote a book on Al-Bayoumi, which was mentioned in relation to a discussion of 9/11 and Saudi involvement.
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Lawrence Wright from the New Yorker wrote the whole book about it and there was a lot more of a scrutiny on this but this was the height of Iraq mania and then it just got lost in the Iraq war and the debates in the country and every once in a while around 9-11 everybody just kind of wakes up and is like yeah remember when the Saudis were 15 and 19 citizens crashing to their and oh and you know they kind of tried to get bin Laden out of Afghanistan but not really even though they were pretty sure about what he was up to and then they just spirited away a bunch of their citizens and ambassadors right after 9-11 and then they bought billions of dollars with advertising on American TV networks in order to prop up their image and you know what was going on there and oh they had all these connections to the Bush administration but then they're like well there's inflation and Roe versus Wade and all this stuff we shouldn't forget like a hundred years from now it's going to be 100% clear about what's happening
It was recommended in the context of discussing the 9/11 Commission and potential Saudi government involvement in the attacks.
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I mean, I recommend the book, always do, Lawrence Wright's book about 9/11 and the lead up to all of that in terms of the drop ball at the very least bureaucratic incompetence about knowledge of these people inside of the country and the fact that these guys making approaches to these hijackers were almost 100% connected to the Saudi government.
Episode: Stories of Week 7/31: Burn Pits Bill, Schumer-Manc...
It was highly recommended as providing a deep history into Al-Zawahiri and his intellectual foundations, particularly regarding his role in the rise of Al-Qaeda and 9/11.
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I highly recommend people go and read [The Looming Tower] by Lawrence Wright, gives you a deep history into Zawahri and kind of his intellectual foundations.
It was highly recommended as providing a deep history into Aiman al-Zawahiri and his intellectual foundations, as well as his role in the rise of al-Qaeda and 9/11.
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I actually encourage people...the Looming Tower which I highly recommend people go and read by Lawrence Wright gives you a deep history into Zawahiri and his intellectual foundations.
It was mentioned as a book to check out to better understand the time period before 9/11.
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There's books like the looming tower and you know things like that that people should check out.
Episode: Stories of Week 7/31: Burn Pits Bill, Schumer-Manc...
It was highly recommended for its in-depth history of al-Qaeda and Aiman al-Zawahiri, providing context to his role in the development of the group and the 9/11 attacks.
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I actually encourage people... the Looming Tower, which I highly recommend people go and read by Lawrence Wright gives you a deep history into Zawahri and kind of his intellectual foundations.
It was highly recommended as a deep dive into the history of al-Qaeda and its intellectual foundation, particularly Zawahiri's role in its development and the events of 9/11.
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I highly recommend people go and read by Lawrence Wright gives you a deep history into Zawahiri and his intellectual foundations.
Episode: Mini Show #35: Congress Corruption, Saudi CIA Meet...
It was mentioned that Lawrence Wright wrote a book about the Saudi government's possible involvement with 9/11, which was released after the initial 9/11 reports.
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and there was a lot more of a scrutiny on this but this was the height of Iraq mania and then it just got lost in the Iraq war and the debates in the country and every once in a while around 9-11 everybody just kind of wakes up and is like yeah remember when the Saudis were 15 and 19 citizens crashing to their and oh and you know they kind of tried to get bin Laden out of Afghanistan but not really even though they were pretty sure about what he was up to and then they just spirited away a bunch of their citizens and ambassadors right after 9-11 and then they bought billions of dollars with advertising on American TV networks in order to prop up their image and you know what was going on there and oh they had all these connections to the Bush administration but then they're like well there's inflation and Roe versus Wade and all this stuff we shouldn't forget like a hundred years from now it's going to be 100% clear about what's happening and you know I never thought I'd actually see these documents in my lifetime I thought it'd be a lot like the JFK assassination yeah so waiting on those so waiting on that one but you know I'm glad to see it I genuinely thought I'd be dead before any of this stuff even came out but at least we know yeah yeah well and I mean it'll be uh clearly the Biden administration not uh exactly having sort of a romance with the Saudis right now so all that's also the context actually that's a good point that this comes out and I didn't think about why that came out but yeah it makes sense yeah indeed and uh you know I mean the U.S. relationship towards Saudi isn't quite the same as what it was back in the Bush years and right to my mind that's a good thing 100%.
It was mentioned as the speaker's favorite book regarding the topic of 9/11 and its connections to Saudi Arabia. The speaker was particularly interested in the unanswered questions surrounding the CIA's actions related to the attacks.
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Lawrence Wright, who wrote The Looming Tower, which is my favorite book.
It was discussed as a well-written book about 9/11, mentioned in passing while Clay discussed reading the oral history of 9/11.
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I read the book back in the day the tower the looming Tower whatever which was very well done.
— Episode: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Jun 4...
Episode: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Jun 4 2024
It was discussed as a well-written book about 9/11, mentioned in passing while Clay discussed reading the oral history of 9/11.
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I read the book back in the day the tower the looming Tower whatever which was very well done.
Episode: Hour 3 - Biden Blames Trump for Open Border
The speaker, Clay Travis, mentioned reading 'The Looming Tower' in the past and found it very well done, comparing it to a new oral history book on the topic of 9/11.
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Now I read the book back in the day, the tower, the looming tower or whatever, which was very well done. This book is just inside.
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