Tucker Carlson’s Conspiracy Theory-Riddled 9/11 Documentary: Did Israel have foreknowledge that Al Qaeda would attack?

Tucker Carlson markets his reporting as "real journalism." Yet while he didn't go completely off the deep end in his recent so-called 9/11 documentary, he fell in with big-name grifters who ignore the facts that destroy their 9/11 conspiracy theories. He did little to further serious inquiry into how government agencies and officials failed to thwart the attacks. Carlson proclaims the 9/11 Commission Report "is a complete joke" and demands a second commission as if it would somehow be "bipartisan" and not another "cover up."

In August, it was widely reported that Bush 43 officials, led by FBI Director Mueller, withheld key evidence from Congress, the 9/11 Commission, and the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Saudi government. But Carlson never mentions it in his documentary. One hopes his newfound business interests in Saudi Arabia did not influence that decision.

He dredged back up the wildest theories and added a couple of his own. He used his final episode to ensure everyone knows he is against using Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs). We've already had a national debate over EITs, wherever you or I come down on them.

And, as I will demonstrate, no Blue Ribbon probe is needed to easily dispense with the most ridiculous assertions and innuendos regurgitated by Tucker.

Conversely, Carlson highlighted one allegation that has never been investigated: Pre-9/11, the CIA conducted an illegal domestic operation and 2,978 people were murdered because the FBI was not told known terrorists were in America. (More on this in a moment.)

Tucker played the "just asking questions" game with the top theories, including that the World Trade Center buildings were brought down by controlled demolition, and the Pentagon was struck by a missile, not an airplane. Such fabrications need to be relentlessly debunked.

The NIST report stated the obvious that it would have taken weeks to prepare WTC buildings 1, 2, and 7 for demolition, to break through walls, cut into hundreds of steel beams, and plant the necessary thousands of pounds of explosives. How could that massive amount of preparation work not have attracted the attention of security personnel and thousands of WTC workers? While Carlson peddled the controlled demolition theory focusing on WTC 7, he only conceded it was unlikely that thermite-based explosives were used in that tower.

Scores of people saw an American Airlines jet heading toward the Pentagon, including firefighters Alan Wallace and Mark Skipper manning Foam 161 at the helipad immediately to the right of where the plane hit. Thousands of 757 parts and pieces were found inside and outside. No missile parts were found. War-fighting missiles are not equipped with seats; a section of seats with the horribly burned bodies of several passengers was found inside the Pentagon. DNA testing of human remains identified all but three of those aboard Flight 77. Releasing more videos won't change indisputable facts; Tucker mentioned none of them.

Carlson suggested Israel had foreknowledge that al Qaeda would attack here on 9/11, but the "the Jews did it" overarching theory originated in the Muslim world, as documented on September 28, 2001, by USA Today. Among the examples that the report cites is the "grieving father" of hijacker Mohamed Atta, who "wondered why U.S. media outlets had chosen to ignore reports that U.S. authorities' seized a number of Jews while they were dancing in celebration over the incidents.'" (Five Israelis were detained and investigated after one person observed suspicious behavior. They were deported for overstaying their visas.)

Eyewitness Maria (her last name was withheld in news reports) never said she saw the five Israelis dancing, and she was too far away to hear what they were saying. In fact, another witness reported the five were "shaken up" when they first heard that a plane struck the North Tower. They were not already across the parking lot from Maria's apartment, which refutes the allegation that they had foreknowledge. Could it be they, like thousands of others, innocently videotaped and took photos of the burning towers?

Carlson also asked, "Why wasn't there substantial wreckage of Flight 93 found at its supposed crash site in Shanksville?" So, I called a deeply knowledgeable friend of many years, a first responder to that site on 9/11 who is now an official at the National Park Service. He stated, "More than 95% of the plane was recovered," and reminded me that on June 21, 2018, four shipping containers holding the wreckage were returned to the site and buried near where the plane crashed.

Tucker's singular attempt at real journalism took place during portions of his first episode. Former FBI Agent Mark Rossini was assigned as a liaison to the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center as a reader of intelligence in its bin Laden unit, Alec Station. He has reason to suspect the FBI was kept from learning that known terrorists were left to roam America, in a risky CIA effort to recruit double agents and infiltrate al Qaeda. And he suspects the CIA had Saudi intelligence (GID) monitor those terrorists.

While Rossini lacks direct evidence, he too quickly dismisses the post-9/11 inquiries. A full reading of them supports his suspicion, warranting a thorough investigation.

FBI readers in the CTC did not read the March 2000 cable from overseas saying known terrorist (future hijacker) Nawaf al-Hazmi had landed at LAX on January 15, 2000. However, a review of internal CIA emails post-9/11 found that soon after the March cable reached the CTC, people upstairs in CIA HQs found Hazmi's arrival to be "interesting." No one upstairs alerted their counterpart at the FBI or ensured it made it into a Presidential Daily Brief.

"Fifty to sixty" at the CIA read the January 5, 2000, cable about Khalid al-Mihdhar – who joined Hazmi at al Qaeda's infamous Malaysia Summit – having a multi-entry visa to America, but no one placed him on the travel watchlist. It was not shared with the FBI before late August 2001. CIA supervising analyst Alfreda Frances Bikowsky saying she hand-carried the information to FBI HQs sometime in January 2000 was determined to be untrue.

An alarming number of supervisors, agents, and analysts interviewed post-9/11 seemed to suffer from a substantial loss of memory about what intelligence they read or who they shared it with, indicating, as Rossini said, the CIA threatened them into withholding information if questioned by the Joint Inquiry or 9/11 Commission. The CIA's IG reported that 1,500 terror-related cables that should have been sent to the FBI were not sent.

Saudi Arabia cannot escape responsibility for 9/11. There was a cover-up: Bush 43 officials, led by FBI Director Mueller, withheld key evidence from scrutiny by Congress, the 9/11 Commission, and the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Saudi government.

Yet America needs a president who will punish misconduct by government officials wherever it is found. If the CIA recklessly left the GID to follow known al Qaeda around our country, evidence of it is most likely in the communications between those two intelligence agencies. If true, CIA officials did far worse than break federal law using a proxy –- 2,978 perished on 9/11 and more than 10,000 have died due to related illnesses and combat- and the scheme's masterminds deserve imprisonment and to be forever shamed.

Creating or repeating baseless 9/11 conspiracy theories has always been the work of anti-Semites, snake oil salesmen, attention seekers, and anarchists. They have poisoned many minds, young and old, and diverted attention away from real concerns. Their fabrications need to be crushed at every opportunity with more free speech.

Benjamin Netanyahu and his office have consistently denied that he had specific,
advance knowledge or a tactical warning of the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.

Now, multiple reports and ongoing investigations have revealed the following:

<><>Highly vaunted Israeli intelligence and military officials, including those from the elite Unit 8200, obtained detailed intelligence documents and warnings about Hamas’s plans and intentions to invade Israeli territory and take hostages in the months and even over a year leading up to the attack.

<><>This information included a 40-page battle plan code-named “Jericho Wall” which precisely described the methods Hamas would use. These warnings were reportedly dismissed by officials as aspirational or not credible.

<><>Strategic Warnings: The head of the Shin Bet (Israel’s domestic security agency) and the Military Intelligence Directorate reportedly issued general warnings to Netanyahu multiple times between March and July 2023, cautioning that Israel’s enemies, including Hamas, perceived Israel as weak due to internal divisions over judicial reforms, which could lead to an “eruption” or “war”.

<><>Netanyahu’s office maintains that these were general strategic assessments and not a specific tactical warning about the October 7 invasion plan.

<><>The Morning of the Attack: Early on October 7, an Israeli general reportedly called Netanyahu to warn him of unusual activity by hundreds of Hamas operatives, suggesting a potential invasion. Netanyahu’s office later admitted that staff received an alert hours before the attack but didn’t pass it on to the Prime Minister.

<><>Allegations of Doctored Records: There is an ongoing investigation into allegations that aides to the Prime Minister altered official records of phone calls from the morning of October 7 to make it appear as though Netanyahu acted more urgently than he did.

<><>Refusal to Take Responsibility: Netanyahu has faced sharp public and political criticism for refusing to take personal responsibility for the intelligence and operational failures that led to the attack, stating that he will address the questions after the war. He has also resisted the establishment of an independent state commission of inquiry into the leadership’s role in the failures, claiming such a commission would be biased.

<><>In summary, while Netanyahu and his staff deny receiving a specific, actionable warning of the exact time and scale of the attack, significant intelligence was available to Israeli military and intelligence services in the lead-up to October 7, which was largely dismissed due to a prevailing assessment that “Hamas was deterred”.

<><>The question of what specific information reached Netanyahu and why
it was not acted upon is a subject of ongoing controversy and investigation.

Anecdotally, besides the $21 billon in weaponry the US has given Israel, the US maintains a storehouse of US weapons in Israel, for Israel’s use when needed. Did Netanyahu deploy these, and other US weapons, subsequent to October 7?

Israel also has its own thriving defense industry, producing
arms for itself, and arms they sell to other countries.

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Carlson’s interview on Tuesday with alleged historian Darryl Cooper — like his interview in April with Reverend Munther Isaac, referenced in today’s flashbacks — was so much worse than merely glib or incurious.

Carlson chose to interview Cooper, whom he endorsed as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States” to learn exactly how World War II didn’t happen. According to Cooper — and Carlson nodded along the entire time — Winston Churchill was perhaps “the chief villain of the Second World War” and “primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did.”

It’s true that Hitler did not want or expect Britain to fight. He wanted Britain to acquiesce to German dominance of Europe from the Urals to Gibraltar and subsume the UK to Nazi interests. This is all a matter of historical record. Britain could fight or submit — that was Hitler’s choice, not Churchill’s.

FLASHBACK: Carlson chose to interview Isaac to find out how the Jewish State of Israel treats Christians. Isaac is a priest who neither lives nor works in Israel and who uses the loaded phrase “Occupied Palestine” as his location on his Twitter/X profile. He is a Palestinian Christian from Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem, where Christian ministers serve at the mercy of the Palestinian Authority.

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To: fruser1

This is more Tucker's speed - along with his segment on the "benefits" of tanning your testicles, which he aired 2 years ago.

He is way too **** retarded for anything serious, like foreign policy.

37 posted on 6/18/2025, 4:46:32 PM by montag813 [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse]

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hi!

(well, no matter how I parsed it ,, the Israeli political elite has been permitting the Fakestinian terrorist gangs to amass huge quantities of deadly weapons for many years... any responsible government would have prevented this long, long ago. not only in the gaza district but in Judea/Samaria (the Israeli historic and defense-essential heartland) and on the north, too. There was never any secret about most of the enemy arsenal, Hezballah had (and openly bragged about having) over 150,000 missiles aimed at Isareli villages, cities, schools, and worst of all perhaps: pizza parlors.

It APPEARS that the Jerusalem elite may finally be waking up now? They have been letting IDF interdict or destroy some enemy weapons shipments, smuggling efforts. And the government has made clear that it will not be giving away Mount Hermon (essential site for detecting weapons convoys entering the region from Iran through Iraq and Syria) or the Rafah border checkpoint with Egypt (where thousands of tons of weapons were smuggled in the last X years), etc. Jerusalem has also been permitting IDF to interdict some of the PLO-Abbas-Fatah illegal weapons manufacturing in the Judea/Samaria districts. More is needed, much more. But it looks like MAYBE, after all these many years, the Jerusalem political elite is finally learning the most basic duty of national government is ... defense.. Maybe the “sitting duck days” are drawing to a close? Hopefully, we can hope!

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