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The investigation into the 9/11 attacks
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U.S.–Israel bilateral intelligence ties and specific pre‑September 2001 contacts fed both legitimate questions about missed warnings and an enduring set of conspiratorial claims that Israel or Mossad ...
The ) is a secure, bunker-like facility beneath the ’s East Wing that originated as a ‑era bomb shelter and evolved into a modern continuity‑of‑government command post and communications hub; it is st...
The phrase “dancing Jews” refers to a long-running conspiracy around five i men detained on September 11, 2001 after witnesses reported they were filming and celebrating near the ; factual reporting c...
The ’s public, documentary record on the five is detained after the arrests yields an equivocal official posture: field reports and searches noted suspicious behavior and that Urban Moving “may have b...
The legal power to change the timing of federal elections is fragmented: fixed a uniform presidential Election Day in 1845, states retain significant authority over how and when they choose federal el...
in the years before 9/11 was a mixture of deep operational cooperation, in the Middle East, and recurring mistrust driven by episodic Israeli espionage against U.S. targets; it was institutionalized, ...
i intelligence is on the public record as having passed warnings to agencies in the months before September 11, 2001—most prominently a reported August 2001 tip that included names of suspected operat...
The most concrete, source-backed tally available in the reporting provided is that U.S. counterterrorism authorities disrupted 10 jihadist (Islamist-motivated) plots between the start of 2020 and New ...
The principal intelligence failure before the September 11 attacks was not a single blind spot but a constellation of organizational, cultural and technical breakdowns that left clear signals disperse...
Five Israeli men were detained by U.S. authorities on September 11, 2001, and were processed primarily on immigration-related grounds rather than criminal terrorism indictments; they were held for an ...
The Obama administration primarily invoked the post‑9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 and the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force concerning Iraq to justify strikes against...