"In the interview for the documentary, Clarke offers an incendiary theory that, if true, would rewrite the history of the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that the CIA intentionally withheld information from the White House and FBI in 2000 and 2001 that two Saudi-born terrorists were on U.S. soil—terrorists who went on to become suicide hijackers on 9/11.
Clarke speculates—and readily admits he cannot prove—that the CIA withheld the information because the agency had been trying to recruit the terrorists, while they were living in Southern California under their own names, to work as CIA agents inside Al Qaeda. After the recruitment effort went sour, senior CIA officers continued to withhold the information from the White House for fear they would be accused of “malfeasance and misfeasance,” Clarke suggests." Daily Beast
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Is this true? I do not know. Clarke, in my experience, has always been a solid performer and not given to mischief making. Would the CIA Drectorate of Operations have tried to recruit these men for the purpose of penetrating AQ? That would have been a logical thing to do. Would old "slam dunk" have covered up something like this? pl
