Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs Page #3

TRUCK EXPLODES HALF A WORLD

AWAY.

I MEAN, IF THEY'RE BAD GUYS

AND THEY'RE DOING US HARM,

I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT.

NOW THE DARK SIDE.

YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T BE PERFECT.

THERE IS COLLATERAL DAMAGE.

(CRYING)

WE FEED THE JIHADI

RECRUITMENT VIDEO THAT THESE

AMERICANS ARE HEARTLESS KILLERS.

WE MAY HAVE TO USE THESE

KINDS OF WEAPONS, BUT, IN THE

END, LET ME TELL YOU

SOMETHING--IF WE FAIL TO DO THIS

AND GOD FORBID THIS COUNTRY

FACED ANOTHER 9/11, YOU KNOW

WHAT THE FIRST QUESTION WOULD

BE:
WHY THE HELL DID YOU LE THIS HAPPEN?

WHY THE HELL DID YOU LET THIS

HAPPEN?

IF YOU ARE A TERRORISM

ANALYST FOR LONG ENOUGH, YOU

WILL HAVE MANY MOMENTS WHERE YOU

WILL FEEL RESPONSIBLE.

RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT HAVING

STAYED LONG ENOUGH, NOT HAVING

STAYED LATE ENOUGH, NOT HAVING

THOUGHT HARD ENOUGH.

NOT HAVING PLOWED THROUGH ENOUGH

DATA TO CONNECT THOSE PROVERBIAL

DOTS.

AND YOU'LL SEE ON THE OTHER END

OF THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE HUR OR KILLED.

I GAVE BIRTH TO MY FIRST SON IN

WHAT WAS A VERY EMERGENCY

C-SECTION.

HE WAS QUITE EARLY.

I WAS LYING DOWN IN MY HOSPITAL

BED, STILL TRYING TO GET OVER

SOME OF THE PAIN.

MY PHONE RANG, AND I HEARD MY

BOSS SCREAMING ON THE OTHER END,

"YOUR PEOPLE DID THIS, YOUR

PEOPLE DID THIS."

AND I HAD NO IDEA WHAT SHE WAS

TALKING ABOUT, BUT I KNEW SHE

MEANT SOMETHING BAD HAD

HAPPENED.

AND I TURNED ON THE TELEVISION,

AND I SAW, AND I KNEW WHAT SHE

MEANT.

Narrator:
FEBRUARY 26, 1993.

WE HEARD A TREMENDOUS

EXPLOSION.

THE ENTIRE BUILDING.

Narrator:
IN AN UNDERGROUND

GARAGE IN NEW YORK CITY, A VAN

PACKED WITH EXPLOSIVES

DETONATES, KILLING SIX PEOPLE

AND INJURING MORE THAN A

THOUSAND.

IT WOULD BE THE FIRST ATTACK ON

THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.

THE FACT IS, AT THIS HOUR,

POLICE SIMPLY DON'T KNOW WHO DID

THIS OR WHY.

THE BIG MESSAGE THAT COMES

OUT OF THE 1993 TRADE CENTER

BOMBING IS THAT A THRESHOLD HAS

BEEN CROSSED.

THEY'VE HIT US HERE.

BUT YOU KNOW, THINKING BACK ON

IT, I'M NOT SURE THAT MESSAGE

WAS AS POWERFULLY ABSORBED AS WE

CAN SEE IT IN RETROSPECT.

Narrator:
THE TRAIL WOULD

LEAD TO A SHADOWY NETWORK OF

JIHADISTS IN AFGHANISTAN THA THE WORLD WOULD COME TO KNOW AS

AL QAEDA, AND A CHARISMATIC

SAUDI MULTI-MILLIONAIRE.

I HAD LIKENED OSAMA BIN LADEN

AT THE TIME TO-- I KNOW THIS IS

HORRIBLE TO SAY, BUT TO DONALD

TRUMP.

YOU KNOW, HE WAS LIKE THE DONALD

TRUMP OF THE TERRORISM

UNDERWORLD.

HE HAD THE WHEREWITHAL AND A

VISION THAT WAS CLEARLY

CONTROVERSIAL AND DIFFERENT FROM

EVERYBODY ELSE, BUT, YOU KNOW,

THE TENACITY TO FOLLOW IT.

I DEFINITELY DREW A LOT OF

SNICKERS FROM MY... FROM MY

COLLEAGUES WHO THOUGHT I WAS

MAKING A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A

MOLEHILL AND BLOWING HIM OUT OF

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes