WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:10.544 --> 00:00:12.446 The video you are about to see 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:15.349 has never been seen by the public. 5 00:00:22.090 --> 00:00:25.893 It was shot 20 years ago by FBI surveillance specialist 6 00:00:25.926 --> 00:00:29.797 Rick Sutton from the 25th floor of the Bureau's 7 00:00:29.830 --> 00:00:31.732 New York headquarters. 8 00:00:46.714 --> 00:00:49.117 The voices are those of Specialist Sutton 9 00:00:49.150 --> 00:00:51.619 and other FBI personnel. 10 00:02:23.010 --> 00:02:25.446 At this point, Specialist Sutton is forced 11 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:28.849 to evacuate along with the entire Bureau. 12 00:02:30.651 --> 00:02:34.121 The FBI office at 26 Federal Plaza, 13 00:02:34.222 --> 00:02:37.725 the largest in the nation, empties. 14 00:02:37.758 --> 00:02:41.128 It is 9:12 AM. 15 00:02:41.229 --> 00:02:43.631 Despite losing their command center 16 00:02:43.664 --> 00:02:46.133 and virtually all their resources, 17 00:02:46.234 --> 00:02:51.004 these FBI agents must mobilize. Now. 18 00:03:03.851 --> 00:03:06.854 September 11th, 2001 19 00:03:06.887 --> 00:03:09.790 is primary day in New York City. 20 00:03:09.823 --> 00:03:13.294 Public schools are just starting a new year. 21 00:03:13.327 --> 00:03:15.296 The Yankees are on a roll 22 00:03:15.329 --> 00:03:19.567 and will host the White Sox that night. 23 00:03:19.600 --> 00:03:21.101 I was driving down through the city, 24 00:03:21.134 --> 00:03:24.137 and I was singing along to the radio. 25 00:03:24.171 --> 00:03:28.141 I was just approaching to enter the Lincoln Tunnel. 26 00:03:28.175 --> 00:03:31.745 I was sitting at my desk at 26 Federal Plaza. 27 00:03:31.779 --> 00:03:33.947 I heard a huge explosion. 28 00:03:45.326 --> 00:03:50.531 My secretary started screaming, "World Trade Center!" 29 00:03:52.433 --> 00:03:57.204 I saw this black smoke billowing from the north tower. 30 00:03:57.305 --> 00:04:02.042 They interrupted the music to say a jetliner 31 00:04:02.075 --> 00:04:03.777 had just crashed into the World Trade Center. 32 00:04:03.811 --> 00:04:08.416 New York has seen nothing like this since 1945 when a B25 33 00:04:08.449 --> 00:04:11.752 Bomber accidently flew into the Empire State Building. 34 00:04:11.785 --> 00:04:13.654 And I was like, hit the siren, 35 00:04:13.687 --> 00:04:17.391 throw the light up on the roof and jet down Broadway. 36 00:04:23.030 --> 00:04:26.367 My phone rang in the car. It was my boss, Barry Mawn, 37 00:04:26.400 --> 00:04:29.337 who was the assistant director of New York at the time, 38 00:04:29.370 --> 00:04:31.004 and he said, "I'm going to the scene. 39 00:04:31.038 --> 00:04:34.775 Meet me there." So, I made record time. 40 00:04:34.808 --> 00:04:37.478 Going down the West Side Highway. 41 00:04:37.511 --> 00:04:40.381 Red lights and siren. 42 00:04:49.222 --> 00:04:52.225 The streets are teaming with panic and people evacuating. 43 00:04:52.259 --> 00:04:55.162 It was a very chaotic scene. 44 00:04:58.599 --> 00:05:00.934 My purpose was to get into the lobby of tower one 45 00:05:00.968 --> 00:05:03.036 because that's where I was told the police department 46 00:05:03.070 --> 00:05:04.137 and fire department 47 00:05:04.171 --> 00:05:07.775 were meeting as the kind of initial mustering point. 48 00:05:15.182 --> 00:05:17.250 I grab the first police officer I could. 49 00:05:17.284 --> 00:05:20.120 I remember saying to him, "Hey, guy. 50 00:05:20.153 --> 00:05:21.555 Where is the mobilization point?" 51 00:05:21.589 --> 00:05:25.192 He said, "Pal, I have no fucking idea." 52 00:05:25.225 --> 00:05:28.729 One note of concern here at the FBI already, 53 00:05:28.762 --> 00:05:31.399 their field office in New York 54 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:34.502 is located very, very close to the World Trade Center. 55 00:05:39.540 --> 00:05:42.776 I saw a huge Ryder yellow rental truck 56 00:05:42.810 --> 00:05:44.978 parked in front of the building 57 00:05:45.012 --> 00:05:47.147 and I said, "Oh, my God." 58 00:05:47.180 --> 00:05:48.949 And we know the history or Ryder rental trucks 59 00:05:48.982 --> 00:05:53.153 when it comes to truck bombs, and you know, IEDs. 60 00:05:53.186 --> 00:05:54.287 It was a Ryder truck 61 00:05:54.321 --> 00:05:56.156 that exploded in the underground garage 62 00:05:56.189 --> 00:05:59.292 of the World Trade Center eight years earlier. 63 00:06:01.995 --> 00:06:05.065 26th Federal Plaza is not safe at this time. 64 00:06:05.098 --> 00:06:06.434 They did not know if it was a target. 65 00:06:06.434 --> 00:06:07.968 If it was being targeted. 66 00:06:09.503 --> 00:06:13.340 We all had the same goal, and that is to get out. 67 00:06:21.148 --> 00:06:24.752 Everyone in the FBI office is immediately forced 68 00:06:24.785 --> 00:06:26.520 to abandon their desks, 69 00:06:26.554 --> 00:06:30.924 leaving behind computers, files, secure phone lines. 70 00:06:30.958 --> 00:06:35.095 Virtually every tool they have to do their jobs. 71 00:06:48.509 --> 00:06:51.479 And all the agents are unnerved. 72 00:06:51.479 --> 00:06:55.282 What did we miss? Could we have prevented this? 73 00:06:58.285 --> 00:07:02.055 And from all directions were your peers, 74 00:07:02.089 --> 00:07:03.591 your FBI colleagues. 75 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.195 It was at that point we were instructed 76 00:07:08.228 --> 00:07:11.865 to go to the playground in Chinatown 77 00:07:11.899 --> 00:07:15.302 and that was our rally point for headcount. 78 00:07:15.335 --> 00:07:19.873 The FBI has only a loose contingency plan for disasters 79 00:07:19.907 --> 00:07:24.411 and the New York Office is already facing huge demands. 80 00:07:24.512 --> 00:07:26.847 Locate and organize its agents, 81 00:07:26.880 --> 00:07:30.518 rescue as many people as possible from the towers 82 00:07:30.551 --> 00:07:35.956 and launch what they know will become a massive investigation. 83 00:07:35.989 --> 00:07:40.327 But as they try to do all three, simultaneously, 84 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:44.164 minutes are ticking by. 85 00:07:44.197 --> 00:07:50.270 The building was groaning louder and louder. 86 00:07:50.303 --> 00:07:52.272 It was like the building was crying. 87 00:07:56.744 --> 00:07:59.613 As you looked at it, 88 00:07:59.647 --> 00:08:01.348 it kind of rumble, rumble, rumble, 89 00:08:01.381 --> 00:08:04.852 rumble after it made it's left sway, right sway. 90 00:08:04.885 --> 00:08:06.687 (groans) 91 00:08:07.655 --> 00:08:12.159 Then it got louder and louder and the ground was moving. 92 00:08:12.192 --> 00:08:15.596 And it made a slight like heave up. 93 00:08:15.629 --> 00:08:18.298 Almost as if it was taking its last breath. 94 00:08:22.069 --> 00:08:26.273 And all of a sudden, you can just hear this huge kaboom! 95 00:08:28.976 --> 00:08:32.646 (yelling and screaming) 96 00:08:35.716 --> 00:08:38.819 And I could just hear each floor dropping. 97 00:08:38.852 --> 00:08:41.755 (shushing noises) 98 00:08:44.592 --> 00:08:49.763 The ground just began to shake. 99 00:08:49.797 --> 00:08:53.601 (yelling) 100 00:08:56.136 --> 00:09:01.609 Oh, shit! Run! Run! 101 00:09:01.609 --> 00:09:04.311 If the New York Office hadn't done a rollcall 102 00:09:04.344 --> 00:09:06.847 that took the time it had... 103 00:09:09.116 --> 00:09:13.186 the agents easily could have been inside the crash area, 104 00:09:13.220 --> 00:09:16.624 if not inside the tower itself. 105 00:09:16.624 --> 00:09:20.460 (yelling) 106 00:09:37.344 --> 00:09:40.513 Is there an exit here? 107 00:09:40.547 --> 00:09:43.684 Shut the gate! Turn off the gas! 108 00:09:49.790 --> 00:09:53.460 (coughing) 109 00:09:58.298 --> 00:09:59.900 What happened? 110 00:09:59.933 --> 00:10:04.237 It collapsed. The top floors collapsed down. 111 00:10:05.839 --> 00:10:08.709 I saw it blow, and then ran like hell. 112 00:10:08.742 --> 00:10:12.780 Thank God, 69, but I can still run. 113 00:10:15.649 --> 00:10:18.852 There's got to be firemen trapped back there, though. 114 00:10:24.491 --> 00:10:29.629 I just remember staring at it and all I could say was, 115 00:10:29.663 --> 00:10:31.665 the World Trade Center's gone. 116 00:10:31.699 --> 00:10:34.501 Both of them, gone. It was empty space. 117 00:10:38.271 --> 00:10:41.308 (blowing nose) 118 00:10:46.914 --> 00:10:49.182 When it settled, you could hear in the background 119 00:10:49.216 --> 00:10:54.955 the chirping that was so loud from the World Trade Center. 120 00:10:54.988 --> 00:10:57.557 Almost like cicadas in the summer. 121 00:11:02.796 --> 00:11:06.900 Except with a mechanical pitch. 122 00:11:09.402 --> 00:11:12.039 It was the trackers on the firemen. 123 00:11:12.072 --> 00:11:13.373 (Coughing) 124 00:11:13.406 --> 00:11:16.309 It's the sound that the protection gear 125 00:11:16.343 --> 00:11:19.446 makes when the fireman stops moving. 126 00:11:30.991 --> 00:11:33.093 (coughing) 127 00:11:33.126 --> 00:11:34.762 You got a spare mask? 128 00:11:34.762 --> 00:11:36.529 Yeah. Come inside so I can look at your head. 129 00:11:36.563 --> 00:11:37.798 I'm fine, really. You sure? 130 00:11:37.831 --> 00:11:41.168 Thank you, yeah. Thank you, very much. 131 00:11:41.201 --> 00:11:42.836 The world is in shock. 132 00:11:42.870 --> 00:11:46.774 New York is paralyzed and the FBI, 133 00:11:46.774 --> 00:11:52.379 whose mission has only become more urgent, is in disarray. 134 00:11:52.412 --> 00:11:55.082 Agents are unable to communicate with 135 00:11:55.115 --> 00:11:57.684 or even locate each other. 136 00:12:01.922 --> 00:12:05.826 Instinctively, I turned and started running up 137 00:12:05.859 --> 00:12:10.798 Vesey Street and I rand to where my office was. 138 00:12:10.831 --> 00:12:13.566 My secretary, I don't think she recognized me. 139 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.268 Like everyone else, we look like, 140 00:12:15.302 --> 00:12:18.238 you know, zombies, with little white dust on us. 141 00:12:18.271 --> 00:12:21.374 I went into the bathroom and cleared my airways 142 00:12:21.408 --> 00:12:25.045 and tried to clean up my face and hands the best I could. 143 00:12:25.078 --> 00:12:27.614 A group of FBI agents had commandeered, 144 00:12:27.647 --> 00:12:29.016 you know, a brokerage. 145 00:12:29.049 --> 00:12:30.884 I think it was Morgan Stanley or somebody, 146 00:12:30.918 --> 00:12:34.021 had an office across the street from the Trade Center. 147 00:12:39.893 --> 00:12:41.594 Why don't you come with us, too. 148 00:12:41.628 --> 00:12:44.131 This is no place to be now, pal. 149 00:12:45.833 --> 00:12:48.168 Recognize the technology then, 150 00:12:48.201 --> 00:12:50.838 telecommunication technology was much different. 151 00:12:50.838 --> 00:12:55.242 There's a phone bank of six or seven payphones. 152 00:12:55.275 --> 00:12:58.478 Had a cop stand by the phones so no one used them. 153 00:12:58.511 --> 00:13:01.148 (yelling) 154 00:13:01.181 --> 00:13:03.183 I'll find the other brother! Let's go! 155 00:13:03.216 --> 00:13:05.385 Get these guys down to fresh air. 156 00:13:05.418 --> 00:13:07.620 We opened the blinds, 157 00:13:07.654 --> 00:13:09.923 I'm talking to Washington, and I said, 158 00:13:09.957 --> 00:13:12.692 "What's going on there?" And they had the bad report 159 00:13:12.725 --> 00:13:15.062 that the Supreme Court had just been hit. 160 00:13:17.264 --> 00:13:20.868 It is becoming apparent no one anywhere 161 00:13:20.868 --> 00:13:22.402 knows what's happening. 162 00:13:22.435 --> 00:13:26.039 The only thing that's clear is the New York office 163 00:13:26.073 --> 00:13:30.177 of the FBI must find out who did this. 164 00:13:32.612 --> 00:13:35.015 Debris is falling from the sky. 165 00:13:35.048 --> 00:13:36.649 All of the buildings in the immediate 166 00:13:36.683 --> 00:13:40.020 area were being evacuated. 167 00:13:40.053 --> 00:13:42.755 You have to have a nerve center. 168 00:13:42.789 --> 00:13:44.691 We had to have a location 169 00:13:44.724 --> 00:13:47.427 and we had to have one very quickly, 170 00:13:47.460 --> 00:13:48.728 so I was given the assignment 171 00:13:48.761 --> 00:13:52.032 to find a suitable forward command post. 172 00:13:52.065 --> 00:13:56.203 We're not going to go anyplace which is identifiable 173 00:13:56.236 --> 00:14:00.908 as being a law enforcement or the FBI. 174 00:14:10.050 --> 00:14:12.752 And I said, it had to be large enough 175 00:14:12.785 --> 00:14:14.754 to house a lot of people. 176 00:14:14.787 --> 00:14:16.456 I want it secured 177 00:14:16.489 --> 00:14:21.962 and I want it fairly close to ground zero. 178 00:14:21.995 --> 00:14:25.065 The agents, they reluctantly said, 179 00:14:25.098 --> 00:14:29.002 "Well, we could go to the 26th Street Garage." 180 00:14:29.036 --> 00:14:30.971 At first, I was actually thinking 181 00:14:31.004 --> 00:14:32.039 how the hell is this gonna work? 182 00:14:32.072 --> 00:14:33.706 I was a little bit skeptical. 183 00:14:33.740 --> 00:14:35.775 It's not going to be ideal. 184 00:14:35.808 --> 00:14:40.380 The 26th Street Garage is the greatest untold story of 9/11. 185 00:14:44.851 --> 00:14:49.089 Both, both Twin Tower buildings came down. 186 00:14:49.122 --> 00:14:51.858 We made the decision to walk to the 26th Street Garage 187 00:14:53.793 --> 00:14:55.595 and as we're walking over there, 188 00:14:55.628 --> 00:14:58.231 we're still seeing hundreds, 189 00:14:58.265 --> 00:15:01.534 if not thousands of people, still moving their way north. 190 00:15:03.870 --> 00:15:07.040 But also, we saw hundreds of boats 191 00:15:07.074 --> 00:15:09.977 coming from New Jersey over towards Manhattan, 192 00:15:09.977 --> 00:15:13.813 trying to help people get off, and it looked Dunkirk. 193 00:15:18.218 --> 00:15:21.321 That's when we first started hearing the military jets. 194 00:15:21.354 --> 00:15:25.392 I knew it was war. 195 00:15:25.425 --> 00:15:26.493 When we first got there, 196 00:15:26.526 --> 00:15:29.096 SWAT was setting up command and control 197 00:15:29.129 --> 00:15:32.499 and securing the area with razor wire. 198 00:15:32.532 --> 00:15:34.634 They were arming those of us that were outside 199 00:15:34.667 --> 00:15:36.336 to set up a perimeter. 200 00:15:36.369 --> 00:15:40.373 We were given long arms, so shot guns and MP5s 201 00:15:40.407 --> 00:15:43.676 and MP10s which looks like a little machine gun. 202 00:15:43.710 --> 00:15:45.212 I remember walking up the ramp. 203 00:15:45.245 --> 00:15:47.880 You know, you can smell oil and small brake fluid. 204 00:15:47.914 --> 00:15:52.285 Opening the door to this massive space. 205 00:15:55.255 --> 00:15:58.025 It wasn't so much the smells that bothered you. 206 00:15:58.025 --> 00:15:59.792 It was the visual. 207 00:15:59.826 --> 00:16:02.562 The garage where the cars are, where you get your oil changed, 208 00:16:02.595 --> 00:16:04.497 where fenders hanging off, 209 00:16:04.531 --> 00:16:06.799 you get the side light replaced. 210 00:16:06.833 --> 00:16:08.901 It was hard to imagine this was going to be 211 00:16:08.935 --> 00:16:12.239 the epicenter of the investigation. 212 00:16:12.272 --> 00:16:15.642 As agents arrive on foot by the hundreds, 213 00:16:15.675 --> 00:16:21.881 FBI logistic teams make space by towing out 500 cars. 214 00:16:21.914 --> 00:16:26.553 It was a grease monkey location but, you know, ugly's okay. 215 00:16:26.586 --> 00:16:29.322 No one is looking for the Waldorf Historia 216 00:16:29.356 --> 00:16:31.158 in the middle of a crisis. 217 00:16:31.191 --> 00:16:35.228 FBI teams are scouring the city for office equipment 218 00:16:35.262 --> 00:16:38.898 and even buying it on their own credit cards. 219 00:16:38.931 --> 00:16:40.967 People trying to put tables up so people 220 00:16:41.068 --> 00:16:44.337 would have somewhere to work, get computers in there. 221 00:16:44.371 --> 00:16:49.142 They had a number of tables lined up with folding chairs. 222 00:16:49.176 --> 00:16:52.545 They set up the computers. They ran the lines. 223 00:16:52.579 --> 00:16:56.449 Banks of telephones. Miles and miles of wire. 224 00:16:56.483 --> 00:16:59.719 And it actually looked like a big hall of spaghetti. 225 00:16:59.752 --> 00:17:03.523 I mean, there are wires hanging from all over the place, 226 00:17:03.556 --> 00:17:08.361 but they were necessary because regular phones weren't working. 227 00:17:08.395 --> 00:17:12.865 It was just logistically an overwhelming undertaking. 228 00:17:12.899 --> 00:17:17.637 As were now seeing the 26th Street Garage take its form, 229 00:17:17.670 --> 00:17:22.209 it was almost like an FBI baby being made in the womb 230 00:17:22.242 --> 00:17:24.644 because everything that the full-grown 231 00:17:24.677 --> 00:17:27.580 FBI mechanism had Downtown was now coming to form. 232 00:17:27.614 --> 00:17:29.582 It was getting legs, it was getting arms, 233 00:17:29.616 --> 00:17:31.918 it was breathing, it was starting to stretch out. 234 00:17:31.951 --> 00:17:34.454 There were different areas for the bosses to sit, 235 00:17:34.487 --> 00:17:37.690 for management to sit, for the case agents to sit. 236 00:17:45.365 --> 00:17:48.501 Incredibly, within just a few hours, 237 00:17:48.535 --> 00:17:53.005 the garage begins to function as an FBI command post. 238 00:17:54.807 --> 00:17:56.443 The purpose of the garage 239 00:17:56.476 --> 00:17:59.712 is not only just to act as a communications channel 240 00:17:59.746 --> 00:18:02.815 but to digest all the information coming in. 241 00:18:09.822 --> 00:18:12.159 The manifest for the planes, 242 00:18:12.159 --> 00:18:14.894 they were obtained fairly quickly from the airlines 243 00:18:14.927 --> 00:18:18.465 and started to be vetted out both through agency files, 244 00:18:18.498 --> 00:18:22.535 FBI files and getting multiple hits on the subjects. 245 00:18:24.804 --> 00:18:28.475 On 9/11, one of the passports of one of the hijackers 246 00:18:28.508 --> 00:18:32.379 was found a block or so from one of the towers in the debris 247 00:18:32.412 --> 00:18:34.514 and that was brought into the command center, 248 00:18:34.547 --> 00:18:38.050 so you were, fairly early on, identifying 249 00:18:38.084 --> 00:18:42.422 who the hijackers were but you wanted everyone else. 250 00:18:45.024 --> 00:18:47.360 You know, we photographed everything, 251 00:18:47.394 --> 00:18:49.496 including aerial mapping, 252 00:18:49.529 --> 00:18:52.732 photographs of all of Ground Zero. 253 00:18:52.765 --> 00:18:56.269 All of that information was funneled back to the garage. 254 00:18:57.537 --> 00:18:59.572 I was involved with a lead group. 255 00:18:59.606 --> 00:19:02.775 Any information that they found in the investigation, 256 00:19:02.809 --> 00:19:06.413 whether it be the passport, the flight manifest, 257 00:19:06.446 --> 00:19:10.517 any information that the lead investigators wanted 258 00:19:10.550 --> 00:19:12.118 followed up on or needed, 259 00:19:12.219 --> 00:19:15.988 the lead desk would pass out a packet. 260 00:19:16.022 --> 00:19:17.524 You know, like "Mission: Impossible," 261 00:19:17.557 --> 00:19:20.126 you open it up and there's a picture of an individual 262 00:19:20.227 --> 00:19:24.564 and in it would be how they're associated with the case. 263 00:19:24.597 --> 00:19:28.568 They could have been in Mohamed Atta's address book, 264 00:19:28.601 --> 00:19:31.838 or it could have been this is a number that one of hijackers 265 00:19:31.871 --> 00:19:34.541 called 15 times in the first week. 266 00:19:34.574 --> 00:19:38.545 Uh, so we would go out and pay a visit to that location. 267 00:19:38.578 --> 00:19:43.082 The Boston office had found a briefcase at the airport, 268 00:19:43.115 --> 00:19:48.688 and it had some information as to what they were going to do. 269 00:19:51.991 --> 00:19:53.826 A handwritten letter was contained 270 00:19:53.860 --> 00:19:55.628 in Mohamed Atta's briefcase 271 00:19:55.662 --> 00:19:58.598 that was basically a declaration of, 272 00:19:58.631 --> 00:20:01.067 "We who are about to die for the cause 273 00:20:01.100 --> 00:20:04.070 remain strong and resolved." 274 00:20:04.103 --> 00:20:07.940 It was that type of rhetoric, to sacrifice their own lives 275 00:20:07.974 --> 00:20:13.980 for the purpose of freeing up the Arabic world 276 00:20:14.013 --> 00:20:17.484 from the great Satan, the United States 277 00:20:17.517 --> 00:20:20.453 and that same letter was recovered in Shanksville 278 00:20:20.487 --> 00:20:22.188 during the crime scene search 279 00:20:22.221 --> 00:20:25.492 and there was a third copy of that same letter found 280 00:20:25.525 --> 00:20:28.227 so that was really a key piece of evidence that, 281 00:20:28.261 --> 00:20:30.863 you know, linked all of them together as well. 282 00:20:34.534 --> 00:20:36.035 Clues are coming in. 283 00:20:36.068 --> 00:20:38.137 Names are going up. Charts are being made. 284 00:20:38.170 --> 00:20:42.675 Whiteboards are being drawn. Lines are being connected. 285 00:20:42.709 --> 00:20:44.010 And so that was broken down 286 00:20:44.043 --> 00:20:46.746 initially in a handwritten whiteboard 287 00:20:46.779 --> 00:20:49.882 but then as information was refined 288 00:20:49.916 --> 00:20:52.184 and identified more specifically, 289 00:20:52.218 --> 00:20:55.922 then it was memorialized in writing and charts 290 00:20:55.955 --> 00:20:58.057 which served a very useful purpose 291 00:20:58.090 --> 00:21:01.794 in terms of comparison of one flight against another. 292 00:21:01.828 --> 00:21:03.696 Who was together? Who wasn't together? 293 00:21:03.730 --> 00:21:07.534 Once we had the connection between the actual hijackers, 294 00:21:07.567 --> 00:21:11.638 to now begin the process of doing a complete vertical, 295 00:21:11.671 --> 00:21:14.674 a dissection, if you will, of that human being. 296 00:21:14.707 --> 00:21:18.210 Their entire life. You know, where they were born, 297 00:21:18.244 --> 00:21:21.047 where they were raised. Where they went to school. 298 00:21:21.080 --> 00:21:22.382 When did they come to the United States? 299 00:21:22.415 --> 00:21:25.352 Where did they stay? Pulling reams and reams 300 00:21:25.352 --> 00:21:29.422 and reams of phone records and financial records. 301 00:21:29.456 --> 00:21:31.424 How did they operate in the United States? 302 00:21:31.458 --> 00:21:32.525 How long were they here? 303 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:35.395 You were able to see the fruits of your labor. 304 00:21:35.428 --> 00:21:37.364 You were able to see all the information 305 00:21:37.364 --> 00:21:39.799 that you were bringing actually come to fruition and form. 306 00:21:39.832 --> 00:21:41.200 You were seeing links being made 307 00:21:41.233 --> 00:21:42.535 based on work you had done. 308 00:21:44.804 --> 00:21:48.741 The 9/11 investigation is already becoming the largest 309 00:21:48.775 --> 00:21:52.011 and most complex in the Bureau's history. 310 00:21:52.044 --> 00:21:56.082 It's all hand on deck, around the clock. 311 00:21:56.115 --> 00:21:58.651 At the same time, the New York Office 312 00:21:58.685 --> 00:22:02.889 is also responsible for thousands of other cases, 313 00:22:02.922 --> 00:22:04.557 and they can't be dropped. 314 00:22:06.726 --> 00:22:09.629 It didn't matter if you were on a Russian organized crime squad 315 00:22:09.662 --> 00:22:11.097 or working the Gambino family 316 00:22:11.130 --> 00:22:12.832 or you were following Russian spies, 317 00:22:12.865 --> 00:22:15.802 you had undercovers out there whose lives were on the line 318 00:22:15.835 --> 00:22:17.504 that you had to worry about. 319 00:22:17.537 --> 00:22:20.139 You had handlers that needed to be talked to. 320 00:22:20.172 --> 00:22:24.811 You had victims that needed justice. 321 00:22:24.844 --> 00:22:27.414 It's very hard to tell an FBI agent 322 00:22:27.447 --> 00:22:30.517 you need to switch this other thing off. 323 00:22:30.550 --> 00:22:33.953 My shift, for example, was 6am to 6pm. 324 00:22:33.986 --> 00:22:36.589 Nobody got days off. There were no days off. 325 00:22:36.623 --> 00:22:39.792 We had a job to do, and we were going to do it. 326 00:22:39.826 --> 00:22:41.861 You didn't want to leave. 327 00:22:41.894 --> 00:22:45.197 At first, you wanted to just never pause 328 00:22:45.231 --> 00:22:46.933 from the work that you were doing, 329 00:22:46.966 --> 00:22:49.936 and you got the greatest comfort from being around 330 00:22:49.969 --> 00:22:52.505 literally hundreds and hundreds of people 331 00:22:52.539 --> 00:22:54.641 who felt the same way. 332 00:22:54.674 --> 00:22:58.811 They were doing the same thing with that level of commitment. 333 00:22:58.845 --> 00:23:00.880 After an 18-hour day, 334 00:23:00.913 --> 00:23:04.784 I had a lot of difficulty falling to sleep. 335 00:23:04.817 --> 00:23:10.022 That is when I would stop and think of what had occurred, 336 00:23:10.056 --> 00:23:14.326 what the losses were to firemen, police 337 00:23:14.360 --> 00:23:19.131 and that caused me a lot of anxiety, stress. 338 00:23:19.165 --> 00:23:21.534 Just thinking about all that. 339 00:23:21.568 --> 00:23:25.337 It's not the kind of work you can walk away from. 340 00:23:25.371 --> 00:23:28.107 A lot of people, for a time, were working day and night 341 00:23:28.140 --> 00:23:35.114 because the stakes were high on both sides. 342 00:23:35.147 --> 00:23:39.752 As agents frantically begin to unravel the 9/11 plot, 343 00:23:39.786 --> 00:23:42.254 another major threat emerges. 344 00:23:42.288 --> 00:23:46.993 The second wave of attacks may be coming. 345 00:23:47.026 --> 00:23:49.662 You're thinking, we've got to solve this case. 346 00:23:49.696 --> 00:23:52.965 That synapse is firing, years of habit. 347 00:23:52.999 --> 00:23:56.068 That's what they've been raised to do 348 00:23:56.102 --> 00:23:57.336 but it was also crystal clear 349 00:23:57.369 --> 00:23:59.706 that they had to stop the next thing. 350 00:23:59.739 --> 00:24:04.744 What was the next thing? Where would the next thing be? 351 00:24:04.777 --> 00:24:08.581 Is it possible that it could be bigger or worse? 352 00:24:08.615 --> 00:24:10.917 We're all concerned. 353 00:24:10.950 --> 00:24:12.885 Was this the tip of the iceberg? 354 00:24:12.919 --> 00:24:14.654 Was there more to follow? 355 00:24:14.687 --> 00:24:18.257 You had the Pentagon attack and, of course, 356 00:24:18.290 --> 00:24:20.593 the plane that went down in Shanksville, Flight 93. 357 00:24:20.627 --> 00:24:24.564 So that's four major, major attacks all in one. 358 00:24:24.597 --> 00:24:27.967 What's to say there aren't five, six, ten, 12? 359 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:32.238 We have to find out whatever there is that one can find out 360 00:24:32.271 --> 00:24:35.241 so that if there is another plot on the way, 361 00:24:35.274 --> 00:24:38.911 whether today, tomorrow, next week, next month. 362 00:24:38.945 --> 00:24:40.379 We stop it. 363 00:24:43.182 --> 00:24:45.151 The clear assumption by federal lawmen 364 00:24:45.184 --> 00:24:47.554 is that these terrorists had help from accomplices 365 00:24:47.554 --> 00:24:49.856 who may still be in the United States. 366 00:24:49.889 --> 00:24:52.224 What is not is clear is whether those accomplices 367 00:24:52.258 --> 00:24:55.094 were only bit players in this historic assault 368 00:24:55.127 --> 00:24:56.563 or whether they may still have still 369 00:24:56.563 --> 00:24:58.865 to be launched terrorist plans of their own. 370 00:24:58.898 --> 00:25:00.600 The dust was still rising. 371 00:25:00.633 --> 00:25:03.603 There were two different mindsets. 372 00:25:03.636 --> 00:25:05.972 There was a brand-new FBI director. 373 00:25:06.005 --> 00:25:08.174 His name was Robert Mueller, 374 00:25:08.207 --> 00:25:12.378 and he was a very exacting manager. 375 00:25:12.411 --> 00:25:15.047 He asked a million questions. 376 00:25:15.081 --> 00:25:19.418 Right after the World Trade Center attack, 377 00:25:19.451 --> 00:25:23.222 Robert Mueller came to the garage to see me. 378 00:25:23.255 --> 00:25:24.757 The director of the FBI 379 00:25:24.791 --> 00:25:27.193 who will subsequently introduce the Attorney General, 380 00:25:27.226 --> 00:25:30.630 but we are all very pleased and honored 381 00:25:30.663 --> 00:25:33.332 to have the director of the FBI, Bob Mueller here. 382 00:25:33.365 --> 00:25:35.334 A morning meeting with Director Mueller 383 00:25:35.367 --> 00:25:38.404 in the days after 9/11 was not just a meeting. 384 00:25:38.437 --> 00:25:40.139 It was a cross examination. 385 00:25:40.172 --> 00:25:41.741 This is a group that, you can see, 386 00:25:41.774 --> 00:25:46.478 turned this parking garage into a huge command post. 387 00:25:46.512 --> 00:25:49.448 So, when you kind of think of that personality, 388 00:25:49.481 --> 00:25:52.318 the ability to run that case from headquarters 389 00:25:52.351 --> 00:25:54.987 for somebody who wanted to be that hands-on, 390 00:25:55.021 --> 00:25:56.422 the way he was leaning. 391 00:25:56.455 --> 00:25:58.625 You should know this is a great, hardworking group 392 00:25:58.625 --> 00:26:00.793 that have been doing it every day 393 00:26:00.827 --> 00:26:04.230 without a day off working 12 to 16 hours. 394 00:26:04.263 --> 00:26:07.199 And he said that he was going 395 00:26:07.233 --> 00:26:10.236 to take the investigation back to Washington. 396 00:26:10.269 --> 00:26:12.271 With that, ladies and gentlemen, 397 00:26:12.304 --> 00:26:13.973 the director of the FBI. 398 00:26:14.006 --> 00:26:17.409 (applause) 399 00:26:17.443 --> 00:26:19.946 Despite the fact that thousands of leads 400 00:26:19.979 --> 00:26:21.814 are coming into the garage, 401 00:26:21.848 --> 00:26:24.651 and agents are working them as fast as they can. 402 00:26:24.651 --> 00:26:26.452 Three weeks ago, we were all doing something else. 403 00:26:26.485 --> 00:26:31.123 The entire operation is one administrative decision away 404 00:26:31.157 --> 00:26:33.225 from being shut down. 405 00:26:33.259 --> 00:26:35.895 And within 24 hours, we all pulled together. 406 00:26:35.928 --> 00:26:37.864 28 agencies. 407 00:26:37.897 --> 00:26:39.866 I argued against that. 408 00:26:39.899 --> 00:26:44.570 I said, "Director, you cannot run an investigation 409 00:26:44.671 --> 00:26:47.506 out of Washington. You don't have investigators." 410 00:26:47.539 --> 00:26:49.909 Disaster has produced any number of heroes. 411 00:26:49.942 --> 00:26:53.212 He said, "I am aware of that so I'm going to take half 412 00:26:53.245 --> 00:26:57.383 of your people down to Washington, DC." 413 00:26:57.416 --> 00:26:58.851 Which I argued against. 414 00:26:58.885 --> 00:27:03.690 So many heroes out there that we ought to applaud. 415 00:27:03.723 --> 00:27:07.760 But he was the director. He was my boss 416 00:27:07.794 --> 00:27:10.162 and he said that's the way it's going to happen. 417 00:27:12.765 --> 00:27:14.701 He made that decision despite our best effort 418 00:27:14.701 --> 00:27:16.302 to convince him not to. 419 00:27:16.335 --> 00:27:20.306 And we will, we will bring these individuals to justice. 420 00:27:20.339 --> 00:27:21.974 Now, let me introduce the Attorney General 421 00:27:22.008 --> 00:27:23.876 of the United States, John Ashcroft. 422 00:27:23.910 --> 00:27:27.146 New York had really strong feelings about this. 423 00:27:27.179 --> 00:27:29.448 There were too many people dead. 424 00:27:29.481 --> 00:27:31.350 There was too much history 425 00:27:31.383 --> 00:27:36.355 and there had to be an element of we feel responsible 426 00:27:36.388 --> 00:27:39.558 for this as well and we need to make it right. 427 00:27:49.869 --> 00:27:52.772 When you think of the New York office of the FBI, 428 00:27:52.805 --> 00:27:55.274 we did the World Trade Center Bomb. 429 00:27:55.307 --> 00:27:57.910 We did the case of the Blind Sheikh. 430 00:27:57.944 --> 00:28:00.379 We prevented all these other attacks. 431 00:28:00.412 --> 00:28:03.582 We know all these players. We've prosecuted them in court. 432 00:28:03.615 --> 00:28:07.954 We've obtained conviction. They're all doing life 433 00:28:07.987 --> 00:28:10.790 and we don't want something this important to be handed off 434 00:28:10.823 --> 00:28:12.759 to a bunch of people at headquarters. 435 00:28:14.794 --> 00:28:17.129 By the morning of September 13th, 436 00:28:17.163 --> 00:28:19.899 the garage is fighting two battles. 437 00:28:19.932 --> 00:28:21.934 One against the terrorists. 438 00:28:21.968 --> 00:28:26.138 Another to keep control of the investigation 439 00:28:26.172 --> 00:28:30.109 and it's determined to win both. 440 00:28:30.142 --> 00:28:34.046 They couldn't get together between Fort Meade and Langley 441 00:28:34.080 --> 00:28:36.282 and the J. Edgar Hoover Building 442 00:28:36.315 --> 00:28:39.418 but then when you went into that space at the garage, 443 00:28:39.451 --> 00:28:40.787 who was there? 444 00:28:40.787 --> 00:28:45.357 NSA, CIA, FBI, NYPD, the Defense Department. 445 00:28:45.391 --> 00:28:49.695 Men and women from 16 intelligence agencies 446 00:28:49.796 --> 00:28:51.463 and all the information was on the table. 447 00:28:51.497 --> 00:28:52.631 They could literally yell it 448 00:28:52.664 --> 00:28:55.501 across the room to the next guy, 449 00:28:55.534 --> 00:28:58.838 all there, doing it the way they were supposed to. 450 00:28:58.871 --> 00:29:00.807 They couldn't get it together in Washington, 451 00:29:00.840 --> 00:29:04.510 but they could get it together in that garage. 452 00:29:04.543 --> 00:29:08.480 More than 25 agencies begin working together. 453 00:29:08.514 --> 00:29:12.084 They are outrunning Washington and determined to keep going. 454 00:29:12.118 --> 00:29:13.519 So many others want to thank you 455 00:29:13.552 --> 00:29:15.955 for the extraordinary response 456 00:29:15.988 --> 00:29:18.925 to this extraordinary act of terror. 457 00:29:18.958 --> 00:29:22.661 FBI Director Robert Mueller concedes. 458 00:29:22.694 --> 00:29:24.096 The team in New York 459 00:29:24.130 --> 00:29:26.966 will continue to be a major driver 460 00:29:26.999 --> 00:29:31.070 in what is becoming an all-consuming investigation. 461 00:29:31.103 --> 00:29:32.939 Let me introduce the Attorney General. 462 00:29:32.972 --> 00:29:35.141 I was pretty frightened 463 00:29:35.174 --> 00:29:41.313 when I first saw the building with the new occupancy. 464 00:29:41.347 --> 00:29:47.486 Martha Stewart Studio and Test Kitchens are on the 9th floor. 465 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:51.858 There was the razor wire. I remember looking up 466 00:29:51.891 --> 00:29:56.328 and seeing guns hanging over the rooftop. 467 00:29:56.362 --> 00:30:00.232 You could see the guns clearly over the parapets. 468 00:30:00.266 --> 00:30:01.800 This was warfare. 469 00:30:01.800 --> 00:30:01.868 This was warfare. I thought, well, either we are a target, 470 00:30:01.868 --> 00:30:04.103 I thought, well, either we are a target, 471 00:30:04.136 --> 00:30:09.141 or we are protected, and it was a terrifying 472 00:30:09.175 --> 00:30:13.145 and yet comforting at the same time. 473 00:30:13.179 --> 00:30:15.147 You knew who they were when they got in the elevator. 474 00:30:15.181 --> 00:30:17.683 They were packing a weapon. 475 00:30:17.716 --> 00:30:21.320 They were extremely serious about their jobs but friendly. 476 00:30:21.353 --> 00:30:25.925 There were lots of people on that floor. 477 00:30:25.958 --> 00:30:29.695 Very busy with computers and telephones ringing 478 00:30:29.728 --> 00:30:32.264 and you can imagine what they had to, 479 00:30:32.298 --> 00:30:34.901 they were trying to figure out who the heck did this. 480 00:30:37.169 --> 00:30:40.839 The viable leads coming in, you know, trite expression, 481 00:30:40.873 --> 00:30:42.641 drinking from a fire hose? 482 00:30:42.674 --> 00:30:44.210 We were drinking from fire hoses 483 00:30:44.243 --> 00:30:47.246 from every fire department in the nation, it felt like. 484 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:49.248 It was a flow that would not stop. 485 00:30:49.281 --> 00:30:51.317 Keep in mind it was coming in, not only from New York, 486 00:30:51.350 --> 00:30:54.320 but all over the country. All over the world. 487 00:30:59.458 --> 00:31:03.195 I thought, God, these poor people working round the clock, 488 00:31:03.229 --> 00:31:04.396 and I felt so sorry for them 489 00:31:04.430 --> 00:31:06.132 because there was no place to buy food. 490 00:31:06.165 --> 00:31:10.602 New York was basically shut down for a while after 9/11. 491 00:31:10.636 --> 00:31:13.940 I thought, well maybe they'll allow me to bring down 492 00:31:13.940 --> 00:31:16.108 everything that we make in the test kitchen. 493 00:31:16.142 --> 00:31:18.410 Why not give it to these hardworking people 494 00:31:18.444 --> 00:31:21.313 who are basically living on the second floor? 495 00:31:21.347 --> 00:31:23.983 So, one day, Martha Stewart is coming up the ramp 496 00:31:24.016 --> 00:31:25.484 and she said, 497 00:31:25.517 --> 00:31:27.086 "I just want you guys to have something." 498 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:29.355 It was a standard size, you know, round, 499 00:31:29.388 --> 00:31:31.657 birthday type of cake, layer cake. 500 00:31:31.690 --> 00:31:34.360 And she said, "I just really appreciate all you people, 501 00:31:34.393 --> 00:31:35.361 what you're doing." 502 00:31:35.394 --> 00:31:39.098 So, we would take down food and, 503 00:31:39.131 --> 00:31:40.699 and see the smiles and the, 504 00:31:40.732 --> 00:31:45.071 and the weariness of the workers there on that floor. 505 00:31:45.104 --> 00:31:47.739 Everybody thanked her 506 00:31:47.773 --> 00:31:51.677 and she didn't try to decorate the garage either. 507 00:31:51.710 --> 00:31:54.513 I would have loved to have made over that garage. 508 00:31:54.546 --> 00:31:56.815 I probably would have made them some lounges 509 00:31:56.848 --> 00:32:01.220 where they could have kitchens where they could eat. 510 00:32:01.253 --> 00:32:03.189 I would have probably put better lighting in there. 511 00:32:03.222 --> 00:32:04.790 It was a pretty dingy place. 512 00:32:04.823 --> 00:32:06.058 You have to have some humor 513 00:32:06.092 --> 00:32:09.128 to get your through these awful events. 514 00:32:09.161 --> 00:32:10.796 They keep you sane, 515 00:32:10.829 --> 00:32:13.332 so Martha Stewart was very, very nice. 516 00:32:16.802 --> 00:32:20.606 As we were finding out about all of the skyjackers. 517 00:32:20.639 --> 00:32:24.876 Our thought at the time was we have to identify 518 00:32:24.910 --> 00:32:27.013 all of them and their links. 519 00:32:27.013 --> 00:32:30.082 So, part of the installation at the garage was these secure, 520 00:32:30.116 --> 00:32:33.885 classified phonelines and they proved to be vital. 521 00:32:36.222 --> 00:32:38.057 It would ring several times a day 522 00:32:38.090 --> 00:32:40.626 and I'd be on the phone with Ali Soufan, 523 00:32:40.659 --> 00:32:44.796 one of the agents who was assigned over in Yemen. 524 00:32:44.830 --> 00:32:47.166 On 9/11, I was in the embassy 525 00:32:47.199 --> 00:32:51.203 in Sana'a investigating the "USS Cole." 526 00:32:51.237 --> 00:32:55.507 Less than a year before 9/11, the "USS Cole," 527 00:32:55.541 --> 00:32:58.577 an American Destroyer, is refueling in Yemen. 528 00:32:58.610 --> 00:33:00.479 The bomb was carried by a small boat 529 00:33:00.512 --> 00:33:02.381 that helped the destroyer moor in the harbor. 530 00:33:02.414 --> 00:33:06.585 The tiny fishing boat, the men on board waving and smiling 531 00:33:06.618 --> 00:33:11.557 pulls up beside the destroyer and explodes. 532 00:33:11.590 --> 00:33:14.793 The bomb rips a hole in the side of the warship, 533 00:33:14.826 --> 00:33:19.498 killing 17 American sailors and nearly sinking the "Cole." 534 00:33:22.134 --> 00:33:24.703 You see the attack on the "USS Cole." 535 00:33:24.736 --> 00:33:29.141 This is critical because you start to see a picture 536 00:33:29.175 --> 00:33:32.344 come into richer focus. 537 00:33:32.378 --> 00:33:34.613 Who are the people who blew up the "Cole"? 538 00:33:34.646 --> 00:33:37.149 Another one. Another plane just hit! 539 00:33:37.183 --> 00:33:39.918 Oh, my God. Another plane has just hit. 540 00:33:39.951 --> 00:33:41.220 It hit another building. 541 00:33:41.253 --> 00:33:42.988 We were trying to call headquarters 542 00:33:43.089 --> 00:33:44.856 and see what was going on in New York 543 00:33:44.890 --> 00:33:48.527 and basically said you need to stay, 544 00:33:48.560 --> 00:33:51.563 and I was really annoyed. I mean, you want us to stay. 545 00:33:51.597 --> 00:33:55.401 The "USS Cole" can wait. You know, we're under attack 546 00:33:55.434 --> 00:33:57.103 and the answer from headquarters 547 00:33:57.136 --> 00:33:59.505 was it's not about the "USS Cole." 548 00:33:59.538 --> 00:34:02.108 It's about what just happened here. 549 00:34:02.108 --> 00:34:04.243 You go to the embassy and so and so 550 00:34:04.276 --> 00:34:07.413 will give you what you need to know. 551 00:34:09.615 --> 00:34:12.984 We started to identify a number of the individuals 552 00:34:13.018 --> 00:34:15.921 that were on the various planes. 553 00:34:15.954 --> 00:34:17.723 As we developed that, 554 00:34:17.756 --> 00:34:21.660 we were able to send those names over to Ali Soufan 555 00:34:21.693 --> 00:34:24.463 who was dealing with jailed extremists. 556 00:34:27.366 --> 00:34:31.637 I went with my CIA colleague in his car back to the embassy. 557 00:34:31.670 --> 00:34:33.505 We go to his office, and he gave me 558 00:34:33.539 --> 00:34:35.541 a manilla envelope and I opened it 559 00:34:35.574 --> 00:34:40.679 and I could not believe what I was seeing. 560 00:34:40.712 --> 00:34:44.250 Khalid Mihdhar and Nawaf Hazmi, who are connected to people 561 00:34:44.283 --> 00:34:46.718 who are involved in the "USS Cole," 562 00:34:46.752 --> 00:34:50.189 had been in the United States. 563 00:34:50.222 --> 00:34:52.291 They were identified as hijackers. 564 00:34:52.324 --> 00:34:55.327 Two people who were on the planes, 565 00:34:55.361 --> 00:34:57.929 we're looking for them in Yemen. 566 00:34:57.963 --> 00:35:00.999 Our government knew that they were in San Diego. 567 00:35:04.536 --> 00:35:06.438 What Ali Soufan has just learned 568 00:35:06.472 --> 00:35:08.940 but no one in the garage yet knows 569 00:35:08.974 --> 00:35:12.744 is that the CIA has been tracking two of the hijackers 570 00:35:12.778 --> 00:35:15.013 for nearly a year. 571 00:35:15.046 --> 00:35:18.717 The CIA, however, had yet to process the information 572 00:35:18.750 --> 00:35:21.187 and so failed to share it 573 00:35:21.187 --> 00:35:25.191 with the FBI in time to locate the hijackers. 574 00:35:25.224 --> 00:35:29.661 I just threw the file back on his desk. 575 00:35:29.695 --> 00:35:36.001 The only thing I can do is just get out of his office, 576 00:35:36.034 --> 00:35:38.370 straight to the bathroom across the hall 577 00:35:38.404 --> 00:35:41.207 and puking my guts out 578 00:35:41.207 --> 00:35:43.209 until one of my colleagues 579 00:35:43.209 --> 00:35:47.846 came in and said, "Buddy, you okay?" 580 00:35:47.879 --> 00:35:50.782 I remember, I just looked at him and said, "They knew. 581 00:35:50.816 --> 00:35:53.219 They knew everything." 582 00:35:53.219 --> 00:35:56.822 The CIA would also acknowledge failing to put the Al Qaeda 583 00:35:56.855 --> 00:36:01.227 operatives on the terrorist watch list sooner. 584 00:36:06.232 --> 00:36:09.401 Days after the attacks, the Yemenis reveal 585 00:36:09.435 --> 00:36:13.038 that they too are hiding something extraordinary. 586 00:36:13.071 --> 00:36:16.708 When he walked into the room, he wouldn't even look at me. 587 00:36:16.742 --> 00:36:21.413 He literally took his chair and turned it towards the wall. 588 00:36:21.447 --> 00:36:25.284 Ali Soufan is brought to meet a secret prisoner. 589 00:36:25.317 --> 00:36:29.488 A terrorist whose alias is Abu Jandal. 590 00:36:29.521 --> 00:36:32.424 He won't even recognize that I'm a Muslim. 591 00:36:32.458 --> 00:36:36.061 He didn't believe me but a little bit by a little bit, 592 00:36:36.094 --> 00:36:39.431 the relationship was a little bit better. 593 00:36:39.465 --> 00:36:43.669 He start lecturing us a lot about Islam, about the world. 594 00:36:43.702 --> 00:36:49.908 About Bin Laden. About revolutions. 595 00:36:49.941 --> 00:36:53.612 The reason the Yemenis have been hiding Abu Jandal-- 596 00:36:53.645 --> 00:36:58.617 he is Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard. 597 00:36:58.650 --> 00:37:01.653 Soufan shows Abu Jandal photos 598 00:37:01.687 --> 00:37:04.189 of the World Trade Center attacks, 599 00:37:04.290 --> 00:37:06.392 but he adds a lie-- 600 00:37:06.425 --> 00:37:11.096 that hundreds of Muslim Yemenis died in the towers. 601 00:37:11.129 --> 00:37:15.100 Those people were on the planes that hit 602 00:37:15.133 --> 00:37:17.969 the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 603 00:37:18.003 --> 00:37:22.841 Those people murdered all these Yemenis. 604 00:37:25.311 --> 00:37:28.814 So, he was totally taken back. 605 00:37:28.847 --> 00:37:32.651 He put his head between his hands, 606 00:37:32.684 --> 00:37:34.520 and he starts shaking and he said, 607 00:37:34.553 --> 00:37:37.723 "I need five minutes." 608 00:37:37.756 --> 00:37:40.326 So, we went out of the room. 609 00:37:40.326 --> 00:37:45.397 We left him in the room, and I walked in again 610 00:37:45.431 --> 00:37:49.635 and then he said, "I think the Sheikh one's crazy. 611 00:37:49.668 --> 00:37:52.938 What do you want to know?" 612 00:37:52.971 --> 00:37:57.776 I said, "We have a photobook. Some people probably you know, 613 00:37:57.809 --> 00:38:00.479 some people I'm sure you don't know." 614 00:38:00.512 --> 00:38:02.581 He identified Mohamed Atta. 615 00:38:02.614 --> 00:38:04.350 He identified about seven people 616 00:38:04.350 --> 00:38:07.953 who later were identified all as hijackers, 617 00:38:07.986 --> 00:38:10.789 giving us their nationality, 618 00:38:10.822 --> 00:38:15.894 their alias, and a lot of details about them. 619 00:38:15.927 --> 00:38:19.998 That was significant. 620 00:38:20.031 --> 00:38:23.369 This is the evidence we needed. 621 00:38:23.369 --> 00:38:25.571 Bin Laden's bodyguard has now 622 00:38:25.604 --> 00:38:29.107 given the FBI absolute proof, 623 00:38:29.140 --> 00:38:34.212 connecting Al Qaeda to the World Trade Center attack. 624 00:38:34.245 --> 00:38:37.282 We understand that it's really important to pass 625 00:38:37.383 --> 00:38:38.850 this information to New York. 626 00:38:41.553 --> 00:38:44.189 Kenny, it's Bin Laden. 100 percent. 627 00:38:46.725 --> 00:38:50.228 When those first clues in Yemen 628 00:38:50.261 --> 00:38:54.400 and Abu Jandal's revelations to Ali Soufan 629 00:38:54.433 --> 00:38:56.635 come into the garage, you know, 630 00:38:56.668 --> 00:38:57.936 the people who are piecing together 631 00:38:57.969 --> 00:39:00.906 everything from everywhere say, okay. 632 00:39:00.939 --> 00:39:03.675 This is big. This has meaning. 633 00:39:03.709 --> 00:39:05.276 Seven of the hijackers 634 00:39:05.310 --> 00:39:08.747 were identified as Qaeda operatives by the bodyguard. 635 00:39:11.550 --> 00:39:14.686 The breakthroughs that occurred in those interviews 636 00:39:14.720 --> 00:39:21.427 was really putting the key into the lock of the secrets of 9/11 637 00:39:21.460 --> 00:39:23.161 and turning it. 638 00:39:23.194 --> 00:39:26.097 Abu Jandal was that. 639 00:39:26.131 --> 00:39:27.833 - Turning to what's now a sprawling 640 00:39:27.866 --> 00:39:28.934 criminal investigation 641 00:39:28.967 --> 00:39:31.069 of the coordinated suicide attacks, 642 00:39:31.102 --> 00:39:32.904 investigators have made quick work 643 00:39:32.938 --> 00:39:35.240 of identifying the skyjackers. 644 00:39:35.273 --> 00:39:38.444 So, Abu Jandal was identifying people left and right 645 00:39:38.477 --> 00:39:42.080 and all the information was coming straight to New York 646 00:39:42.113 --> 00:39:45.016 and New York were acting upon this information, 647 00:39:45.050 --> 00:39:48.353 putting wanted posters for some individuals 648 00:39:48.454 --> 00:39:50.722 that we identified and following 649 00:39:50.756 --> 00:39:53.692 on a lot of the leads that we were generating. 650 00:39:54.460 --> 00:39:57.896 The board became a lot more refined as time went on. 651 00:39:57.929 --> 00:40:00.031 As more information came in that 652 00:40:00.065 --> 00:40:02.901 we could permanently affix up there 653 00:40:02.934 --> 00:40:05.070 in terms of a flow chart. 654 00:40:05.103 --> 00:40:06.538 You wanted to get back after you did your leads 655 00:40:06.572 --> 00:40:08.840 and write up your investigation and document it 656 00:40:08.874 --> 00:40:10.341 so that the case squad 657 00:40:10.375 --> 00:40:13.144 could have that information as soon as possible 658 00:40:13.178 --> 00:40:15.547 because something you're holding may be a missing piece 659 00:40:15.581 --> 00:40:17.148 and you don't know it. 660 00:40:17.182 --> 00:40:19.384 You don't know what you have. They know what they need. 661 00:40:22.287 --> 00:40:25.323 This grind went on for, like, 60 days 662 00:40:25.356 --> 00:40:29.127 before a day off, which is, you know, it was okay for me 663 00:40:29.160 --> 00:40:30.496 'cause I was in the zone. 664 00:40:30.529 --> 00:40:31.730 I wanted to be with my peers. 665 00:40:31.763 --> 00:40:33.465 I wanted to be with other FBI agents. 666 00:40:36.802 --> 00:40:38.303 The leads from 9/11 667 00:40:38.336 --> 00:40:42.874 which is opening entire new books into Al Qaeda 668 00:40:42.908 --> 00:40:44.676 that had never been cracked before 669 00:40:44.710 --> 00:40:47.946 including the recruitment of English-speaking people 670 00:40:47.979 --> 00:40:50.649 to come to flight schools. 671 00:40:50.682 --> 00:40:52.851 In terms of connecting the dots, 672 00:40:52.884 --> 00:40:54.586 who were these people who flew the planes 673 00:40:54.620 --> 00:40:56.755 and how did they learn to fly? 674 00:40:56.788 --> 00:40:59.625 With whom were they associated when they're in the country. 675 00:40:59.658 --> 00:41:01.359 We realized pretty quickly 676 00:41:01.392 --> 00:41:03.228 there's an awful lot of flight schools 677 00:41:03.261 --> 00:41:06.632 that can teach you to fly a commercial airliner 678 00:41:06.665 --> 00:41:08.299 and of those flight schools, 679 00:41:08.333 --> 00:41:12.303 a lot of them had a lot of Mideastern males as students. 680 00:41:12.337 --> 00:41:16.675 We need to know what else is happening. 681 00:41:16.708 --> 00:41:18.844 Who else in involved? 682 00:41:18.877 --> 00:41:22.180 Who else is a sleeper cell somewhere, 683 00:41:22.213 --> 00:41:24.783 waiting for the instructions to attack? 684 00:41:24.816 --> 00:41:28.219 Pull back, pull back. All the way to the green bar. 685 00:41:34.425 --> 00:41:37.328 The thing that struck me so odd when I went into the garage 686 00:41:37.362 --> 00:41:40.065 was that I smelled, like, gas and oil and rubber 687 00:41:40.098 --> 00:41:41.432 and all the things that, 688 00:41:41.466 --> 00:41:43.569 you know, would typically find in a garage 689 00:41:43.602 --> 00:41:46.337 and you're among all these computer terminals 690 00:41:46.371 --> 00:41:50.341 and FBI people setting leads and covering leads. 691 00:41:50.375 --> 00:41:53.745 Leads are pouring in from all over the world 692 00:41:53.779 --> 00:41:55.814 but one of the most critical 693 00:41:55.847 --> 00:42:00.619 comes from inside the FBI itself. 694 00:42:00.652 --> 00:42:04.089 We had been pushing to our management in Minneapolis 695 00:42:04.122 --> 00:42:06.191 to let New York know 696 00:42:06.224 --> 00:42:09.895 we had a subject who had to be connected to the attacks. 697 00:42:23.041 --> 00:42:24.610 When I got to New York, 698 00:42:24.610 --> 00:42:29.748 I immediately went to the garage ready to brief agents 699 00:42:29.781 --> 00:42:32.217 and prosecutors on Mr. Moussaoui. 700 00:42:34.252 --> 00:42:38.056 Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen. 701 00:42:38.089 --> 00:42:40.158 He has been in flight school in Minnesota 702 00:42:40.191 --> 00:42:43.328 until weeks before 9/11. 703 00:42:43.361 --> 00:42:47.132 When the FBI is alerted to his strange behavior, 704 00:42:47.165 --> 00:42:51.502 agents arrest him on immigration charges. 705 00:42:51.536 --> 00:42:57.142 Zacarias Moussaoui was taking flying lessons, 706 00:42:57.175 --> 00:43:00.979 but it raised concern by the instructor 707 00:43:01.012 --> 00:43:03.314 is that he just wanted to know how to fly. 708 00:43:03.348 --> 00:43:06.685 He really didn't want to learn everything there was 709 00:43:06.718 --> 00:43:08.787 about manning an airplane. 710 00:43:08.820 --> 00:43:12.858 This revelation about Moussaoui is conveyed to Ali Soufan 711 00:43:12.891 --> 00:43:14.125 over in Yemen. 712 00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:17.663 Soufan runs it past Bin Laden's bodyguard. 713 00:43:20.999 --> 00:43:25.737 Abu Jandal identified Moussaoui. 714 00:43:25.771 --> 00:43:29.174 Basically, he gave us a lot of things about him, 715 00:43:29.207 --> 00:43:32.878 his involvement in Al Qaeda. His alias in Al Qaeda. 716 00:43:32.911 --> 00:43:37.683 Now we know that this person wasn't only a crazy person 717 00:43:37.716 --> 00:43:39.785 who said, "I wanna learn how to fly, 718 00:43:39.818 --> 00:43:41.419 "but I just wanna take off. 719 00:43:41.452 --> 00:43:43.154 I don't care about landing." 720 00:43:44.022 --> 00:43:47.558 This guy is actually a member of Al Qaeda... 721 00:43:49.895 --> 00:43:53.098 and worked for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. 722 00:43:58.603 --> 00:44:00.972 Realizing the terrorist network in the US 723 00:44:01.006 --> 00:44:03.742 is larger than anyone imagined, 724 00:44:03.775 --> 00:44:07.378 the FBI puts even more pressure on Moussaoui. 725 00:44:07.412 --> 00:44:09.915 Mr. Moussaoui was hostile. 726 00:44:09.948 --> 00:44:12.417 We could tell he didn't like us. 727 00:44:12.450 --> 00:44:15.821 We were going to go for broke on this interview 728 00:44:15.854 --> 00:44:17.222 and so we said, 729 00:44:17.255 --> 00:44:20.425 "We're aware that you're a member of a group." 730 00:44:20.458 --> 00:44:21.727 When he heard the word group, 731 00:44:21.727 --> 00:44:23.594 that really concerned Moussaoui. 732 00:44:23.628 --> 00:44:26.832 His eyes kind of got wide. His jaw dropped. 733 00:44:26.865 --> 00:44:32.570 That also fit our concern as to were there others out there? 734 00:44:32.603 --> 00:44:37.876 Potential hijackers and/or potential support elements 735 00:44:39.510 --> 00:44:42.647 that would create a second wave. 736 00:44:44.883 --> 00:44:46.885 Or create other incidents. 737 00:44:46.918 --> 00:44:49.254 I said, "Mr. Moussaoui, you're here with us in custody 738 00:44:49.287 --> 00:44:50.588 "and you're going to remain in custody 739 00:44:50.621 --> 00:44:52.357 "but your friends who are out there 740 00:44:52.390 --> 00:44:54.625 "who are going to carry out this attack, they're not, 741 00:44:54.659 --> 00:44:57.462 "and if people are hurt, you're going to be held 742 00:44:57.495 --> 00:45:00.265 accountable by the United States government." 743 00:45:04.970 --> 00:45:07.438 Everyone was in a high state of alert. 744 00:45:07.472 --> 00:45:09.808 When's the next attack? 745 00:45:12.177 --> 00:45:13.444 Obviously, we didn't prevent this one, 746 00:45:13.478 --> 00:45:14.679 but can we prevent the next one? 747 00:45:21.286 --> 00:45:23.354 The urgency, for sure, 748 00:45:23.388 --> 00:45:25.190 was identifying co-conspirators, 749 00:45:25.223 --> 00:45:29.227 was identifying anybody who might have been working 750 00:45:29.260 --> 00:45:31.329 with Moussaoui to do the same thing. 751 00:45:31.362 --> 00:45:32.898 Who might have been financing him, 752 00:45:32.931 --> 00:45:35.033 who might have trained him. 753 00:45:35.867 --> 00:45:40.138 Was Moussaoui going to be used in a terrorist plot after that? 754 00:45:40.171 --> 00:45:41.539 I'm sure he was. 755 00:45:41.572 --> 00:45:43.608 They didn't send him here for tourism, right? 756 00:45:43.641 --> 00:45:47.445 They sent him for terrorism but again, 757 00:45:47.478 --> 00:45:49.948 he was arrested before that happened. 758 00:45:49.981 --> 00:45:51.817 That was very, very important in terms 759 00:45:51.817 --> 00:45:56.521 of establishing a real concrete connection between Bin Laden, 760 00:45:56.554 --> 00:45:59.390 Al Qaeda, and the hijackers as well. 761 00:45:59.424 --> 00:46:00.826 We're working day and night. 762 00:46:00.826 --> 00:46:03.128 We're interviewing people left and right, you know? 763 00:46:03.161 --> 00:46:06.231 We're getting significant amount of information. 764 00:46:06.264 --> 00:46:08.166 It's very important to pass it to New York. 765 00:46:11.136 --> 00:46:12.971 However, some of this intelligence 766 00:46:13.004 --> 00:46:16.041 is difficult to interpret. 767 00:46:16.074 --> 00:46:18.910 In particular, the agents struggle 768 00:46:18.944 --> 00:46:21.913 with intercepted Al Qaeda phone calls 769 00:46:21.947 --> 00:46:25.583 about a mysterious figure linked to the attacks, 770 00:46:25.616 --> 00:46:27.986 but still at large. 771 00:46:28.019 --> 00:46:30.755 And there was all this chatter, 772 00:46:30.856 --> 00:46:33.925 and part of the chatter was this guy, Mukhtar, 773 00:46:33.959 --> 00:46:36.561 which was believed to be somebody that was involved, 774 00:46:36.594 --> 00:46:38.129 but we didn't know who he was. 775 00:46:40.465 --> 00:46:42.133 To chase down this lead, 776 00:46:42.167 --> 00:46:46.037 Ali Soufan flies to a secret prison in Thailand. 777 00:46:46.071 --> 00:46:49.374 He interrogates a captured Bin Laden associate 778 00:46:49.407 --> 00:46:52.010 named Abu Zubaydah 779 00:46:52.043 --> 00:46:55.546 When hearing about this Le Mukhtar, 780 00:46:55.580 --> 00:46:58.183 the one who, whose brain flew away. 781 00:46:58.216 --> 00:47:00.351 All the time, Le Mukhtar, Le Mukhtar 782 00:47:00.385 --> 00:47:01.786 And I'm like, who is Le Mukhtar 783 00:47:01.887 --> 00:47:04.289 who is this guy whose brain flew away? 784 00:47:04.322 --> 00:47:07.725 Maybe he's Bin Laden because he went crazy after 9/11 785 00:47:07.758 --> 00:47:09.360 doing something like this. 786 00:47:09.394 --> 00:47:13.031 Soufan shows Zubaydah photos of known terrorists, 787 00:47:13.064 --> 00:47:17.368 trying to trace the Al Qaeda network from the bottom up, 788 00:47:17.402 --> 00:47:19.905 but Zubaydah is stunned. 789 00:47:21.206 --> 00:47:24.709 So, he said, "Please, brother. Don't play games with me. 790 00:47:24.742 --> 00:47:27.278 This is Mukhtar. 791 00:47:27.312 --> 00:47:31.182 This is the one who did the plane operation." 792 00:47:36.787 --> 00:47:41.059 The FBI analysts have been mishearing the name. 793 00:47:41.092 --> 00:47:46.797 Lee Mukhtar is actually Mukhtar and Mukhtar 794 00:47:46.831 --> 00:47:50.936 is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 795 00:47:50.936 --> 00:47:54.372 someone the FBI thought they knew well. 796 00:47:59.410 --> 00:48:04.182 I was like, whoa. Mukhtar. 797 00:48:04.215 --> 00:48:09.254 Le Mukhtar. I was totally shocked. 798 00:48:09.287 --> 00:48:11.156 Totally shocked because, honestly, at the time, 799 00:48:11.189 --> 00:48:13.959 we didn't even know he was a member of Al Qaeda. 800 00:48:13.959 --> 00:48:17.295 In an instant, Soufan makes a stunning connection. 801 00:48:17.328 --> 00:48:22.567 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the uncle of Ramzi Yousef. 802 00:48:22.600 --> 00:48:26.204 The mastermind of the first World Trade Center attack 803 00:48:26.237 --> 00:48:27.805 in 1993. 804 00:48:32.177 --> 00:48:34.479 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, before joining Al Qaeda, 805 00:48:34.512 --> 00:48:36.014 came to Abu Zubaydah, 806 00:48:36.047 --> 00:48:39.985 and he wanted to do an operation in the United States, 807 00:48:40.018 --> 00:48:42.053 targeting the World Trade Center 808 00:48:42.087 --> 00:48:45.723 to follow up with what Ramzi Yousef started. 809 00:48:45.756 --> 00:48:48.994 Destroying the buildings. 810 00:48:49.027 --> 00:48:52.063 And his plot was to rent 811 00:48:52.097 --> 00:48:58.769 Cessna planes and fly them into the two buildings. 812 00:48:58.803 --> 00:49:01.806 Abu Zubaydah's response was like, 813 00:49:01.839 --> 00:49:03.341 "So you break some windows. 814 00:49:03.374 --> 00:49:07.212 "At least fill the Cessna planes with explosives 815 00:49:07.245 --> 00:49:09.347 so they can do some damage." 816 00:49:09.380 --> 00:49:12.183 So, KSM liked the idea. 817 00:49:12.217 --> 00:49:14.185 Abu Zubaydah told him the only person 818 00:49:14.219 --> 00:49:18.223 who will have a capability like this is Osama Bin Laden. 819 00:49:26.031 --> 00:49:28.499 What he had done is he had taken all of Ramzi Yousef's 820 00:49:28.533 --> 00:49:31.869 plans and kind of blown the dust off them 821 00:49:31.902 --> 00:49:33.171 and brought them to Bin Laden and said, 822 00:49:33.204 --> 00:49:37.175 "They're still good plans. We can still do bad things. 823 00:49:37.208 --> 00:49:39.877 They just need the money behind them." 824 00:49:39.910 --> 00:49:41.746 And that was the genesis of 9/11. 825 00:49:50.155 --> 00:49:52.757 You know, New York will be very interested in KSM, 826 00:49:52.790 --> 00:49:56.261 so I called on a secure line, Kenny, and I said 827 00:49:56.294 --> 00:49:59.064 Khaled Sheikh Mohammed was identified 828 00:49:59.064 --> 00:50:01.699 as the mastermind of 9/11. 829 00:50:23.388 --> 00:50:26.591 In brief, Barry just hung up with Ali, 830 00:50:26.624 --> 00:50:28.025 and here's what he's provided. 831 00:50:30.195 --> 00:50:32.430 Those details were put up on the board. 832 00:50:36.834 --> 00:50:41.272 The board is finally complete. 833 00:50:41.306 --> 00:50:44.375 There is now a clear line from the original 834 00:50:44.409 --> 00:50:46.944 World Trade Center bombing 835 00:50:46.977 --> 00:50:50.448 through Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 836 00:50:50.481 --> 00:50:53.484 to Osama Bin Laden, 837 00:50:53.518 --> 00:50:58.856 and the 2,978 murders on 9/11. 838 00:51:03.128 --> 00:51:07.132 Our enemies are about to face the consequences. 839 00:51:12.803 --> 00:51:14.205 On my orders, 840 00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.408 the United States military has begun strikes 841 00:51:17.442 --> 00:51:19.844 against Al Qaeda terrorist training camps 842 00:51:19.877 --> 00:51:21.812 and military installations 843 00:51:21.846 --> 00:51:26.016 of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. 844 00:51:26.050 --> 00:51:31.156 It was the best time that I ever saw 845 00:51:31.189 --> 00:51:34.925 where law enforcement came together as one. 846 00:51:39.530 --> 00:51:41.499 Good evening. It's three months to the day 847 00:51:41.532 --> 00:51:43.534 since the murderous attack on America 848 00:51:43.568 --> 00:51:45.470 and the US grand jury has issued 849 00:51:45.503 --> 00:51:48.539 the first formal criminal charges in the case. 850 00:51:48.573 --> 00:51:50.275 Attorney General John Ashcroft calls 851 00:51:50.308 --> 00:51:54.345 the 30-page indictment of Zacarias Moussaoui quote, 852 00:51:54.379 --> 00:51:56.214 "A chronical of evil." 853 00:51:56.247 --> 00:51:59.717 That humble little building on the west side highway 854 00:51:59.750 --> 00:52:03.654 was housing the most complex, important, 855 00:52:03.688 --> 00:52:06.857 largest investigation in FBI history. 856 00:52:10.761 --> 00:52:11.996 An extraordinary confession 857 00:52:12.029 --> 00:52:14.599 from the suspected mastermind of 9/11 attacks. 858 00:52:14.632 --> 00:52:16.534 According to the Pentagon, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 859 00:52:16.567 --> 00:52:18.636 admitted responsibility for 9/11 860 00:52:18.669 --> 00:52:20.938 and for a string of attacks and plots, 861 00:52:20.971 --> 00:52:23.208 including plans to kill Presidents Clinton and Carter. 862 00:52:23.208 --> 00:52:25.109 What was accomplished out of that garage 863 00:52:25.210 --> 00:52:27.412 was nothing short of amazing. 864 00:52:27.445 --> 00:52:30.315 Tonight, I can report to the American people 865 00:52:30.348 --> 00:52:32.783 and to the world, the United States 866 00:52:32.817 --> 00:52:34.752 has conducted an operation that killed 867 00:52:34.785 --> 00:52:38.423 Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda. 868 00:52:40.124 --> 00:52:41.692 One by one, the United State 869 00:52:41.726 --> 00:52:44.495 dealt with those responsible for 9/11. 870 00:52:49.434 --> 00:52:51.369 Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty 871 00:52:51.402 --> 00:52:55.640 to conspiring to kill Americans as part of the attacks. 872 00:52:55.673 --> 00:53:00.478 He is currently serving a life sentence without parole. 873 00:53:00.511 --> 00:53:02.313 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 874 00:53:02.347 --> 00:53:08.253 the mastermind of the attacks, remains at Guantanamo Bay. 875 00:53:08.286 --> 00:53:10.955 His trial has yet to happen. 876 00:53:18.629 --> 00:53:20.998 What began as an improvised response 877 00:53:21.031 --> 00:53:26.571 to an emergency evacuation yielded extraordinary results. 878 00:53:28.439 --> 00:53:31.108 And that was not just figuratively 879 00:53:31.141 --> 00:53:34.412 but also quite literally the start of something. 880 00:53:34.445 --> 00:53:38.616 It was a new model. 881 00:53:38.649 --> 00:53:41.886 The structure that evolved in the 26th Street Garage 882 00:53:41.919 --> 00:53:45.155 is known as the Joint Operation Center 883 00:53:45.189 --> 00:53:48.593 In FBI parlance, the JOC. 884 00:53:48.626 --> 00:53:50.928 And it has become the template 885 00:53:50.961 --> 00:53:53.964 for counterterrorism activities. 886 00:53:53.998 --> 00:53:59.537 Agencies cooperate closely, intelligence is shared quickly, 887 00:53:59.570 --> 00:54:02.907 and there is constant vigilance. 888 00:54:15.152 --> 00:54:16.754 I look at that warehouse 889 00:54:16.787 --> 00:54:21.559 and I realize its whispered role in history. 890 00:54:21.592 --> 00:54:23.093 There's no sign, 891 00:54:23.127 --> 00:54:26.163 and nobody really knows what happened in there. 892 00:54:33.671 --> 00:54:38.376 What went on after 9/11, it should forever be here 893 00:54:38.409 --> 00:54:40.044 that the largest investigation 894 00:54:40.077 --> 00:54:42.613 in the history of US law enforcement, 895 00:54:42.647 --> 00:54:44.915 if not international law enforcement, 896 00:54:44.949 --> 00:54:50.621 was run from this very rudimentary grease-lidden 897 00:54:50.655 --> 00:54:54.359 on the floor, oil-slicked garage. 898 00:54:54.359 --> 00:54:56.961 It's just an incredible feat. It really is. 899 00:55:03.200 --> 00:55:05.803 In all the memories of the garage, 900 00:55:05.836 --> 00:55:09.574 both stressful but also enlightened, like hopeful. 901 00:55:09.607 --> 00:55:11.609 It was all the best of everybody 902 00:55:11.642 --> 00:55:12.910 was here in the garage. 903 00:55:12.943 --> 00:55:16.080 It was the investigators, support, the people. 904 00:55:23.087 --> 00:55:24.789 And that's what was so great about you know, 905 00:55:24.822 --> 00:55:28.092 everything in the garage was just work 906 00:55:28.125 --> 00:55:29.560 and trying to solve this, 907 00:55:29.594 --> 00:55:32.597 you know, most heinous crime ever, right? 908 00:55:32.630 --> 00:55:34.231 Just unspeakable, really, 909 00:55:34.264 --> 00:55:36.567 but everybody just sort of put aside the unspeakable 910 00:55:36.601 --> 00:55:38.403 and got it done. 911 00:55:38.403 --> 00:55:41.939 Putting aside the unthinkable and getting it done 912 00:55:41.972 --> 00:55:45.443 is what FBI agents are trained to do. 913 00:55:45.476 --> 00:55:48.779 Now, after two decades in Afghanistan, 914 00:55:48.813 --> 00:55:51.015 American troops are out. 915 00:55:51.048 --> 00:55:55.119 The threat based on history came true. 916 00:55:55.152 --> 00:55:57.655 Government fell in an instant. 917 00:55:57.688 --> 00:56:03.728 Taliban seized control. 918 00:56:03.761 --> 00:56:08.165 We're never going to eliminate terrorism in our lifetime. 919 00:56:08.198 --> 00:56:11.301 Just like the FBI's mission never ends. 920 00:56:11.335 --> 00:56:14.805 They'll regroup, find new sources 921 00:56:14.839 --> 00:56:16.841 and stay ahead of the terrorists 922 00:56:16.874 --> 00:56:20.478 as they have for the past 20 years. 923 00:56:20.511 --> 00:56:25.483 Preserving our safety in an increasingly complicated world. 924 00:56:36.761 --> 00:56:40.731 One Sunday, I was walking up the street near my house. 925 00:56:40.765 --> 00:56:42.467 There was this little church on the Upper East Side 926 00:56:42.500 --> 00:56:47.337 and I remember walking and they were singing hymns 927 00:56:47.371 --> 00:56:51.576 and I was like, they're happy. And they should be. 928 00:56:51.609 --> 00:56:55.913 They should be not-- it's okay to be joyful 929 00:56:55.946 --> 00:56:59.349 and sing in church. 930 00:56:59.383 --> 00:57:03.621 And I remember feeling like taking a minute 931 00:57:03.654 --> 00:57:08.225 and sitting outside and listening to the hymns. 932 00:57:14.064 --> 00:57:17.367 'Cause it was, I think the first time 933 00:57:17.401 --> 00:57:20.304 I was reconnecting with New York. 934 00:57:20.337 --> 00:57:24.742 First time I was seeing my fellow New Yorkers 935 00:57:24.775 --> 00:57:27.011 you know, being New Yorkers, 936 00:57:27.044 --> 00:57:30.515 and singing a hymn. 937 00:57:30.548 --> 00:57:31.716 You know? 938 00:57:31.749 --> 00:57:33.818 And they were joyful inside the church, 939 00:57:33.851 --> 00:57:36.621 so, for me, it was rewarding 940 00:57:36.654 --> 00:57:39.223 'cause it was like, it's okay, you know? 941 00:57:39.256 --> 00:57:42.259 Humanity is here. 942 00:57:42.292 --> 00:57:43.528 It's gonna be okay.