1 00:00:10,587 --> 00:00:12,489 The video you are about to see 2 00:00:12,523 --> 00:00:15,392 has never been seen by the public. 3 00:00:22,133 --> 00:00:25,936 It was shot 20 years ago by FBI surveillance specialist 4 00:00:25,969 --> 00:00:29,840 Rick Sutton from the 25th floor of the Bureau's 5 00:00:29,873 --> 00:00:31,775 New York headquarters. 6 00:00:46,757 --> 00:00:49,160 The voices are those of Specialist Sutton 7 00:00:49,193 --> 00:00:51,662 and other FBI personnel. 8 00:02:23,053 --> 00:02:25,489 At this point, Specialist Sutton is forced 9 00:02:25,522 --> 00:02:28,892 to evacuate along with the entire Bureau. 10 00:02:30,694 --> 00:02:34,164 The FBI office at 26 Federal Plaza, 11 00:02:34,265 --> 00:02:37,768 the largest in the nation, empties. 12 00:02:37,801 --> 00:02:41,171 It is 9:12 AM. 13 00:02:41,272 --> 00:02:43,674 Despite losing their command center 14 00:02:43,707 --> 00:02:46,176 and virtually all their resources, 15 00:02:46,277 --> 00:02:51,047 these FBI agents must mobilize. Now. 16 00:03:03,894 --> 00:03:06,897 September 11th, 2001 17 00:03:06,930 --> 00:03:09,833 is primary day in New York City. 18 00:03:09,866 --> 00:03:13,337 Public schools are just starting a new year. 19 00:03:13,370 --> 00:03:15,339 The Yankees are on a roll 20 00:03:15,372 --> 00:03:19,610 and will host the White Sox that night. 21 00:03:19,643 --> 00:03:21,144 I was driving down through the city, 22 00:03:21,177 --> 00:03:24,180 and I was singing along to the radio. 23 00:03:24,214 --> 00:03:28,184 I was just approaching to enter the Lincoln Tunnel. 24 00:03:28,218 --> 00:03:31,788 I was sitting at my desk at 26 Federal Plaza. 25 00:03:31,822 --> 00:03:33,990 I heard a huge explosion. 26 00:03:45,369 --> 00:03:50,574 My secretary started screaming, "World Trade Center!" 27 00:03:52,476 --> 00:03:57,247 I saw this black smoke billowing from the north tower. 28 00:03:57,348 --> 00:04:02,085 They interrupted the music to say a jetliner 29 00:04:02,118 --> 00:04:03,820 had just crashed into the World Trade Center. 30 00:04:03,854 --> 00:04:08,459 New York has seen nothing like this since 1945 when a B25 31 00:04:08,492 --> 00:04:11,795 Bomber accidently flew into the Empire State Building. 32 00:04:11,828 --> 00:04:13,697 And I was like, hit the siren, 33 00:04:13,730 --> 00:04:17,434 throw the light up on the roof and jet down Broadway. 34 00:04:23,073 --> 00:04:26,410 My phone rang in the car. It was my boss, Barry Mawn, 35 00:04:26,443 --> 00:04:29,380 who was the assistant director of New York at the time, 36 00:04:29,413 --> 00:04:31,047 and he said, "I'm going to the scene. 37 00:04:31,081 --> 00:04:34,818 Meet me there." So, I made record time. 38 00:04:34,851 --> 00:04:37,521 Going down the West Side Highway. 39 00:04:37,554 --> 00:04:40,424 Red lights and siren. 40 00:04:49,265 --> 00:04:52,268 The streets are teaming with panic and people evacuating. 41 00:04:52,302 --> 00:04:55,205 It was a very chaotic scene. 42 00:04:58,642 --> 00:05:00,977 My purpose was to get into the lobby of tower one 43 00:05:01,011 --> 00:05:03,079 because that's where I was told the police department 44 00:05:03,113 --> 00:05:04,180 and fire department 45 00:05:04,214 --> 00:05:07,818 were meeting as the kind of initial mustering point. 46 00:05:15,225 --> 00:05:17,293 I grab the first police officer I could. 47 00:05:17,327 --> 00:05:20,163 I remember saying to him, "Hey, guy. 48 00:05:20,196 --> 00:05:21,598 Where is the mobilization point?" 49 00:05:21,632 --> 00:05:25,235 He said, "Pal, I have no fucking idea." 50 00:05:25,268 --> 00:05:28,772 One note of concern here at the FBI already, 51 00:05:28,805 --> 00:05:31,442 their field office in New York 52 00:05:31,442 --> 00:05:34,545 is located very, very close to the World Trade Center. 53 00:05:39,583 --> 00:05:42,819 I saw a huge Ryder yellow rental truck 54 00:05:42,853 --> 00:05:45,021 parked in front of the building 55 00:05:45,055 --> 00:05:47,190 and I said, "Oh, my God." 56 00:05:47,223 --> 00:05:48,992 And we know the history or Ryder rental trucks 57 00:05:49,025 --> 00:05:53,196 when it comes to truck bombs, and you know, IEDs. 58 00:05:53,229 --> 00:05:54,330 It was a Ryder truck 59 00:05:54,364 --> 00:05:56,199 that exploded in the underground garage 60 00:05:56,232 --> 00:05:59,335 of the World Trade Center eight years earlier. 61 00:06:02,038 --> 00:06:05,108 26th Federal Plaza is not safe at this time. 62 00:06:05,141 --> 00:06:06,477 They did not know if it was a target. 63 00:06:06,477 --> 00:06:08,011 If it was being targeted. 64 00:06:09,546 --> 00:06:13,383 We all had the same goal, and that is to get out. 65 00:06:21,191 --> 00:06:24,795 Everyone in the FBI office is immediately forced 66 00:06:24,828 --> 00:06:26,563 to abandon their desks, 67 00:06:26,597 --> 00:06:30,967 leaving behind computers, files, secure phone lines. 68 00:06:31,001 --> 00:06:35,138 Virtually every tool they have to do their jobs. 69 00:06:48,552 --> 00:06:51,522 And all the agents are unnerved. 70 00:06:51,522 --> 00:06:55,325 What did we miss? Could we have prevented this? 71 00:06:58,328 --> 00:07:02,098 And from all directions were your peers, 72 00:07:02,132 --> 00:07:03,634 your FBI colleagues. 73 00:07:05,802 --> 00:07:08,238 It was at that point we were instructed 74 00:07:08,271 --> 00:07:11,908 to go to the playground in Chinatown 75 00:07:11,942 --> 00:07:15,345 and that was our rally point for headcount. 76 00:07:15,378 --> 00:07:19,916 The FBI has only a loose contingency plan for disasters 77 00:07:19,950 --> 00:07:24,454 and the New York Office is already facing huge demands. 78 00:07:24,555 --> 00:07:26,890 Locate and organize its agents, 79 00:07:26,923 --> 00:07:30,561 rescue as many people as possible from the towers 80 00:07:30,594 --> 00:07:35,999 and launch what they know will become a massive investigation. 81 00:07:36,032 --> 00:07:40,370 But as they try to do all three, simultaneously, 82 00:07:40,403 --> 00:07:44,207 minutes are ticking by. 83 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:50,313 The building was groaning louder and louder. 84 00:07:50,346 --> 00:07:52,315 It was like the building was crying. 85 00:07:56,787 --> 00:07:59,656 As you looked at it, 86 00:07:59,690 --> 00:08:01,391 it kind of rumble, rumble, rumble, 87 00:08:01,424 --> 00:08:04,895 rumble after it made it's left sway, right sway. 88 00:08:04,928 --> 00:08:06,730 (groans) 89 00:08:07,698 --> 00:08:12,202 Then it got louder and louder and the ground was moving. 90 00:08:12,235 --> 00:08:15,639 And it made a slight like heave up. 91 00:08:15,672 --> 00:08:18,341 Almost as if it was taking its last breath. 92 00:08:22,112 --> 00:08:26,316 And all of a sudden, you can just hear this huge kaboom! 93 00:08:29,019 --> 00:08:32,689 (yelling and screaming) 94 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:38,862 And I could just hear each floor dropping. 95 00:08:38,895 --> 00:08:41,798 (shushing noises) 96 00:08:44,635 --> 00:08:49,806 The ground just began to shake. 97 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,644 (yelling) 98 00:08:56,179 --> 00:09:01,652 Oh, shit! Run! Run! 99 00:09:01,652 --> 00:09:04,354 If the New York Office hadn't done a rollcall 100 00:09:04,387 --> 00:09:06,890 that took the time it had... 101 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:13,229 the agents easily could have been inside the crash area, 102 00:09:13,263 --> 00:09:16,667 if not inside the tower itself. 103 00:09:16,667 --> 00:09:20,503 (yelling) 104 00:09:37,387 --> 00:09:40,556 Is there an exit here? 105 00:09:40,590 --> 00:09:43,727 Shut the gate! Turn off the gas! 106 00:09:49,833 --> 00:09:53,503 (coughing) 107 00:09:58,341 --> 00:09:59,943 What happened? 108 00:09:59,976 --> 00:10:04,280 It collapsed. The top floors collapsed down. 109 00:10:05,882 --> 00:10:08,752 I saw it blow, and then ran like hell. 110 00:10:08,785 --> 00:10:12,823 Thank God, 69, but I can still run. 111 00:10:15,692 --> 00:10:18,895 There's got to be firemen trapped back there, though. 112 00:10:24,534 --> 00:10:29,672 I just remember staring at it and all I could say was, 113 00:10:29,706 --> 00:10:31,708 the World Trade Center's gone. 114 00:10:31,742 --> 00:10:34,544 Both of them, gone. It was empty space. 115 00:10:38,314 --> 00:10:41,351 (blowing nose) 116 00:10:46,957 --> 00:10:49,225 When it settled, you could hear in the background 117 00:10:49,259 --> 00:10:54,998 the chirping that was so loud from the World Trade Center. 118 00:10:55,031 --> 00:10:57,600 Almost like cicadas in the summer. 119 00:11:02,839 --> 00:11:06,943 Except with a mechanical pitch. 120 00:11:09,445 --> 00:11:12,082 It was the trackers on the firemen. 121 00:11:12,115 --> 00:11:13,416 (Coughing) 122 00:11:13,449 --> 00:11:16,352 It's the sound that the protection gear 123 00:11:16,386 --> 00:11:19,489 makes when the fireman stops moving. 124 00:11:31,034 --> 00:11:33,136 (coughing) 125 00:11:33,169 --> 00:11:34,805 You got a spare mask? 126 00:11:34,805 --> 00:11:36,572 Yeah. Come inside so I can look at your head. 127 00:11:36,606 --> 00:11:37,841 I'm fine, really. You sure? 128 00:11:37,874 --> 00:11:41,211 Thank you, yeah. Thank you, very much. 129 00:11:41,244 --> 00:11:42,879 The world is in shock. 130 00:11:42,913 --> 00:11:46,817 New York is paralyzed and the FBI, 131 00:11:46,817 --> 00:11:52,422 whose mission has only become more urgent, is in disarray. 132 00:11:52,455 --> 00:11:55,125 Agents are unable to communicate with 133 00:11:55,158 --> 00:11:57,727 or even locate each other. 134 00:12:01,965 --> 00:12:05,869 Instinctively, I turned and started running up 135 00:12:05,902 --> 00:12:10,841 Vesey Street and I rand to where my office was. 136 00:12:10,874 --> 00:12:13,609 My secretary, I don't think she recognized me. 137 00:12:13,643 --> 00:12:15,311 Like everyone else, we look like, 138 00:12:15,345 --> 00:12:18,281 you know, zombies, with little white dust on us. 139 00:12:18,314 --> 00:12:21,417 I went into the bathroom and cleared my airways 140 00:12:21,451 --> 00:12:25,088 and tried to clean up my face and hands the best I could. 141 00:12:25,121 --> 00:12:27,657 A group of FBI agents had commandeered, 142 00:12:27,690 --> 00:12:29,059 you know, a brokerage. 143 00:12:29,092 --> 00:12:30,927 I think it was Morgan Stanley or somebody, 144 00:12:30,961 --> 00:12:34,064 had an office across the street from the Trade Center. 145 00:12:39,936 --> 00:12:41,637 Why don't you come with us, too. 146 00:12:41,671 --> 00:12:44,174 This is no place to be now, pal. 147 00:12:45,876 --> 00:12:48,211 Recognize the technology then, 148 00:12:48,244 --> 00:12:50,881 telecommunication technology was much different. 149 00:12:50,881 --> 00:12:55,285 There's a phone bank of six or seven payphones. 150 00:12:55,318 --> 00:12:58,521 Had a cop stand by the phones so no one used them. 151 00:12:58,554 --> 00:13:01,191 (yelling) 152 00:13:01,224 --> 00:13:03,226 I'll find the other brother! Let's go! 153 00:13:03,259 --> 00:13:05,428 Get these guys down to fresh air. 154 00:13:05,461 --> 00:13:07,663 We opened the blinds, 155 00:13:07,697 --> 00:13:09,966 I'm talking to Washington, and I said, 156 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,735 "What's going on there?" And they had the bad report 157 00:13:12,768 --> 00:13:15,105 that the Supreme Court had just been hit. 158 00:13:17,307 --> 00:13:20,911 It is becoming apparent no one anywhere 159 00:13:20,911 --> 00:13:22,445 knows what's happening. 160 00:13:22,478 --> 00:13:26,082 The only thing that's clear is the New York office 161 00:13:26,116 --> 00:13:30,220 of the FBI must find out who did this. 162 00:13:32,655 --> 00:13:35,058 Debris is falling from the sky. 163 00:13:35,091 --> 00:13:36,692 All of the buildings in the immediate 164 00:13:36,726 --> 00:13:40,063 area were being evacuated. 165 00:13:40,096 --> 00:13:42,798 You have to have a nerve center. 166 00:13:42,832 --> 00:13:44,734 We had to have a location 167 00:13:44,767 --> 00:13:47,470 and we had to have one very quickly, 168 00:13:47,503 --> 00:13:48,771 so I was given the assignment 169 00:13:48,804 --> 00:13:52,075 to find a suitable forward command post. 170 00:13:52,108 --> 00:13:56,246 We're not going to go anyplace which is identifiable 171 00:13:56,279 --> 00:14:00,951 as being a law enforcement or the FBI. 172 00:14:10,093 --> 00:14:12,795 And I said, it had to be large enough 173 00:14:12,828 --> 00:14:14,797 to house a lot of people. 174 00:14:14,830 --> 00:14:16,499 I want it secured 175 00:14:16,532 --> 00:14:22,005 and I want it fairly close to ground zero. 176 00:14:22,038 --> 00:14:25,108 The agents, they reluctantly said, 177 00:14:25,141 --> 00:14:29,045 "Well, we could go to the 26th Street Garage." 178 00:14:29,079 --> 00:14:31,014 At first, I was actually thinking 179 00:14:31,047 --> 00:14:32,082 how the hell is this gonna work? 180 00:14:32,115 --> 00:14:33,749 I was a little bit skeptical. 181 00:14:33,783 --> 00:14:35,818 It's not going to be ideal. 182 00:14:35,851 --> 00:14:40,423 The 26th Street Garage is the greatest untold story of 9/11. 183 00:14:44,894 --> 00:14:49,132 Both, both Twin Tower buildings came down. 184 00:14:49,165 --> 00:14:51,901 We made the decision to walk to the 26th Street Garage 185 00:14:53,836 --> 00:14:55,638 and as we're walking over there, 186 00:14:55,671 --> 00:14:58,274 we're still seeing hundreds, 187 00:14:58,308 --> 00:15:01,577 if not thousands of people, still moving their way north. 188 00:15:03,913 --> 00:15:07,083 But also, we saw hundreds of boats 189 00:15:07,117 --> 00:15:10,020 coming from New Jersey over towards Manhattan, 190 00:15:10,020 --> 00:15:13,856 trying to help people get off, and it looked Dunkirk. 191 00:15:18,261 --> 00:15:21,364 That's when we first started hearing the military jets. 192 00:15:21,397 --> 00:15:25,435 I knew it was war. 193 00:15:25,468 --> 00:15:26,536 When we first got there, 194 00:15:26,569 --> 00:15:29,139 SWAT was setting up command and control 195 00:15:29,172 --> 00:15:32,542 and securing the area with razor wire. 196 00:15:32,575 --> 00:15:34,677 They were arming those of us that were outside 197 00:15:34,710 --> 00:15:36,379 to set up a perimeter. 198 00:15:36,412 --> 00:15:40,416 We were given long arms, so shot guns and MP5s 199 00:15:40,450 --> 00:15:43,719 and MP10s which looks like a little machine gun. 200 00:15:43,753 --> 00:15:45,255 I remember walking up the ramp. 201 00:15:45,288 --> 00:15:47,923 You know, you can smell oil and small brake fluid. 202 00:15:47,957 --> 00:15:52,328 Opening the door to this massive space. 203 00:15:55,298 --> 00:15:58,068 It wasn't so much the smells that bothered you. 204 00:15:58,068 --> 00:15:59,835 It was the visual. 205 00:15:59,869 --> 00:16:02,605 The garage where the cars are, where you get your oil changed, 206 00:16:02,638 --> 00:16:04,540 where fenders hanging off, 207 00:16:04,574 --> 00:16:06,842 you get the side light replaced. 208 00:16:06,876 --> 00:16:08,944 It was hard to imagine this was going to be 209 00:16:08,978 --> 00:16:12,282 the epicenter of the investigation. 210 00:16:12,315 --> 00:16:15,685 As agents arrive on foot by the hundreds, 211 00:16:15,718 --> 00:16:21,924 FBI logistic teams make space by towing out 500 cars. 212 00:16:21,957 --> 00:16:26,596 It was a grease monkey location but, you know, ugly's okay. 213 00:16:26,629 --> 00:16:29,365 No one is looking for the Waldorf Historia 214 00:16:29,399 --> 00:16:31,201 in the middle of a crisis. 215 00:16:31,234 --> 00:16:35,271 FBI teams are scouring the city for office equipment 216 00:16:35,305 --> 00:16:38,941 and even buying it on their own credit cards. 217 00:16:38,974 --> 00:16:41,010 People trying to put tables up so people 218 00:16:41,111 --> 00:16:44,380 would have somewhere to work, get computers in there. 219 00:16:44,414 --> 00:16:49,185 They had a number of tables lined up with folding chairs. 220 00:16:49,219 --> 00:16:52,588 They set up the computers. They ran the lines. 221 00:16:52,622 --> 00:16:56,492 Banks of telephones. Miles and miles of wire. 222 00:16:56,526 --> 00:16:59,762 And it actually looked like a big hall of spaghetti. 223 00:16:59,795 --> 00:17:03,566 I mean, there are wires hanging from all over the place, 224 00:17:03,599 --> 00:17:08,404 but they were necessary because regular phones weren't working. 225 00:17:08,438 --> 00:17:12,908 It was just logistically an overwhelming undertaking. 226 00:17:12,942 --> 00:17:17,680 As were now seeing the 26th Street Garage take its form, 227 00:17:17,713 --> 00:17:22,252 it was almost like an FBI baby being made in the womb 228 00:17:22,285 --> 00:17:24,687 because everything that the full-grown 229 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,623 FBI mechanism had Downtown was now coming to form. 230 00:17:27,657 --> 00:17:29,625 It was getting legs, it was getting arms, 231 00:17:29,659 --> 00:17:31,961 it was breathing, it was starting to stretch out. 232 00:17:31,994 --> 00:17:34,497 There were different areas for the bosses to sit, 233 00:17:34,530 --> 00:17:37,733 for management to sit, for the case agents to sit. 234 00:17:45,408 --> 00:17:48,544 Incredibly, within just a few hours, 235 00:17:48,578 --> 00:17:53,048 the garage begins to function as an FBI command post. 236 00:17:54,850 --> 00:17:56,486 The purpose of the garage 237 00:17:56,519 --> 00:17:59,755 is not only just to act as a communications channel 238 00:17:59,789 --> 00:18:02,858 but to digest all the information coming in. 239 00:18:09,865 --> 00:18:12,202 The manifest for the planes, 240 00:18:12,202 --> 00:18:14,937 they were obtained fairly quickly from the airlines 241 00:18:14,970 --> 00:18:18,508 and started to be vetted out both through agency files, 242 00:18:18,541 --> 00:18:22,578 FBI files and getting multiple hits on the subjects. 243 00:18:24,847 --> 00:18:28,518 On 9/11, one of the passports of one of the hijackers 244 00:18:28,551 --> 00:18:32,422 was found a block or so from one of the towers in the debris 245 00:18:32,455 --> 00:18:34,557 and that was brought into the command center, 246 00:18:34,590 --> 00:18:38,093 so you were, fairly early on, identifying 247 00:18:38,127 --> 00:18:42,465 who the hijackers were but you wanted everyone else. 248 00:18:45,067 --> 00:18:47,403 You know, we photographed everything, 249 00:18:47,437 --> 00:18:49,539 including aerial mapping, 250 00:18:49,572 --> 00:18:52,775 photographs of all of Ground Zero. 251 00:18:52,808 --> 00:18:56,312 All of that information was funneled back to the garage. 252 00:18:57,580 --> 00:18:59,615 I was involved with a lead group. 253 00:18:59,649 --> 00:19:02,818 Any information that they found in the investigation, 254 00:19:02,852 --> 00:19:06,456 whether it be the passport, the flight manifest, 255 00:19:06,489 --> 00:19:10,560 any information that the lead investigators wanted 256 00:19:10,593 --> 00:19:12,161 followed up on or needed, 257 00:19:12,262 --> 00:19:16,031 the lead desk would pass out a packet. 258 00:19:16,065 --> 00:19:17,567 You know, like "Mission: Impossible," 259 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,169 you open it up and there's a picture of an individual 260 00:19:20,270 --> 00:19:24,607 and in it would be how they're associated with the case. 261 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,611 They could have been in Mohamed Atta's address book, 262 00:19:28,644 --> 00:19:31,881 or it could have been this is a number that one of hijackers 263 00:19:31,914 --> 00:19:34,584 called 15 times in the first week. 264 00:19:34,617 --> 00:19:38,588 Uh, so we would go out and pay a visit to that location. 265 00:19:38,621 --> 00:19:43,125 The Boston office had found a briefcase at the airport, 266 00:19:43,158 --> 00:19:48,731 and it had some information as to what they were going to do. 267 00:19:52,034 --> 00:19:53,869 A handwritten letter was contained 268 00:19:53,903 --> 00:19:55,671 in Mohamed Atta's briefcase 269 00:19:55,705 --> 00:19:58,641 that was basically a declaration of, 270 00:19:58,674 --> 00:20:01,110 "We who are about to die for the cause 271 00:20:01,143 --> 00:20:04,113 remain strong and resolved." 272 00:20:04,146 --> 00:20:07,983 It was that type of rhetoric, to sacrifice their own lives 273 00:20:08,017 --> 00:20:14,023 for the purpose of freeing up the Arabic world 274 00:20:14,056 --> 00:20:17,527 from the great Satan, the United States 275 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,496 and that same letter was recovered in Shanksville 276 00:20:20,530 --> 00:20:22,231 during the crime scene search 277 00:20:22,264 --> 00:20:25,535 and there was a third copy of that same letter found 278 00:20:25,568 --> 00:20:28,270 so that was really a key piece of evidence that, 279 00:20:28,304 --> 00:20:30,906 you know, linked all of them together as well. 280 00:20:34,577 --> 00:20:36,078 Clues are coming in. 281 00:20:36,111 --> 00:20:38,180 Names are going up. Charts are being made. 282 00:20:38,213 --> 00:20:42,718 Whiteboards are being drawn. Lines are being connected. 283 00:20:42,752 --> 00:20:44,053 And so that was broken down 284 00:20:44,086 --> 00:20:46,789 initially in a handwritten whiteboard 285 00:20:46,822 --> 00:20:49,925 but then as information was refined 286 00:20:49,959 --> 00:20:52,227 and identified more specifically, 287 00:20:52,261 --> 00:20:55,965 then it was memorialized in writing and charts 288 00:20:55,998 --> 00:20:58,100 which served a very useful purpose 289 00:20:58,133 --> 00:21:01,837 in terms of comparison of one flight against another. 290 00:21:01,871 --> 00:21:03,739 Who was together? Who wasn't together? 291 00:21:03,773 --> 00:21:07,577 Once we had the connection between the actual hijackers, 292 00:21:07,610 --> 00:21:11,681 to now begin the process of doing a complete vertical, 293 00:21:11,714 --> 00:21:14,717 a dissection, if you will, of that human being. 294 00:21:14,750 --> 00:21:18,253 Their entire life. You know, where they were born, 295 00:21:18,287 --> 00:21:21,090 where they were raised. Where they went to school. 296 00:21:21,123 --> 00:21:22,425 When did they come to the United States? 297 00:21:22,458 --> 00:21:25,395 Where did they stay? Pulling reams and reams 298 00:21:25,395 --> 00:21:29,465 and reams of phone records and financial records. 299 00:21:29,499 --> 00:21:31,467 How did they operate in the United States? 300 00:21:31,501 --> 00:21:32,568 How long were they here? 301 00:21:32,602 --> 00:21:35,438 You were able to see the fruits of your labor. 302 00:21:35,471 --> 00:21:37,407 You were able to see all the information 303 00:21:37,407 --> 00:21:39,842 that you were bringing actually come to fruition and form. 304 00:21:39,875 --> 00:21:41,243 You were seeing links being made 305 00:21:41,276 --> 00:21:42,578 based on work you had done. 306 00:21:44,847 --> 00:21:48,784 The 9/11 investigation is already becoming the largest 307 00:21:48,818 --> 00:21:52,054 and most complex in the Bureau's history. 308 00:21:52,087 --> 00:21:56,125 It's all hand on deck, around the clock. 309 00:21:56,158 --> 00:21:58,694 At the same time, the New York Office 310 00:21:58,728 --> 00:22:02,932 is also responsible for thousands of other cases, 311 00:22:02,965 --> 00:22:04,600 and they can't be dropped. 312 00:22:06,769 --> 00:22:09,672 It didn't matter if you were on a Russian organized crime squad 313 00:22:09,705 --> 00:22:11,140 or working the Gambino family 314 00:22:11,173 --> 00:22:12,875 or you were following Russian spies, 315 00:22:12,908 --> 00:22:15,845 you had undercovers out there whose lives were on the line 316 00:22:15,878 --> 00:22:17,547 that you had to worry about. 317 00:22:17,580 --> 00:22:20,182 You had handlers that needed to be talked to. 318 00:22:20,215 --> 00:22:24,854 You had victims that needed justice. 319 00:22:24,887 --> 00:22:27,457 It's very hard to tell an FBI agent 320 00:22:27,490 --> 00:22:30,560 you need to switch this other thing off. 321 00:22:30,593 --> 00:22:33,996 My shift, for example, was 6am to 6pm. 322 00:22:34,029 --> 00:22:36,632 Nobody got days off. There were no days off. 323 00:22:36,666 --> 00:22:39,835 We had a job to do, and we were going to do it. 324 00:22:39,869 --> 00:22:41,904 You didn't want to leave. 325 00:22:41,937 --> 00:22:45,240 At first, you wanted to just never pause 326 00:22:45,274 --> 00:22:46,976 from the work that you were doing, 327 00:22:47,009 --> 00:22:49,979 and you got the greatest comfort from being around 328 00:22:50,012 --> 00:22:52,548 literally hundreds and hundreds of people 329 00:22:52,582 --> 00:22:54,684 who felt the same way. 330 00:22:54,717 --> 00:22:58,854 They were doing the same thing with that level of commitment. 331 00:22:58,888 --> 00:23:00,923 After an 18-hour day, 332 00:23:00,956 --> 00:23:04,827 I had a lot of difficulty falling to sleep. 333 00:23:04,860 --> 00:23:10,065 That is when I would stop and think of what had occurred, 334 00:23:10,099 --> 00:23:14,369 what the losses were to firemen, police 335 00:23:14,403 --> 00:23:19,174 and that caused me a lot of anxiety, stress. 336 00:23:19,208 --> 00:23:21,577 Just thinking about all that. 337 00:23:21,611 --> 00:23:25,380 It's not the kind of work you can walk away from. 338 00:23:25,414 --> 00:23:28,150 A lot of people, for a time, were working day and night 339 00:23:28,183 --> 00:23:35,157 because the stakes were high on both sides. 340 00:23:35,190 --> 00:23:39,795 As agents frantically begin to unravel the 9/11 plot, 341 00:23:39,829 --> 00:23:42,297 another major threat emerges. 342 00:23:42,331 --> 00:23:47,036 The second wave of attacks may be coming. 343 00:23:47,069 --> 00:23:49,705 You're thinking, we've got to solve this case. 344 00:23:49,739 --> 00:23:53,008 That synapse is firing, years of habit. 345 00:23:53,042 --> 00:23:56,111 That's what they've been raised to do 346 00:23:56,145 --> 00:23:57,379 but it was also crystal clear 347 00:23:57,412 --> 00:23:59,749 that they had to stop the next thing. 348 00:23:59,782 --> 00:24:04,787 What was the next thing? Where would the next thing be? 349 00:24:04,820 --> 00:24:08,624 Is it possible that it could be bigger or worse? 350 00:24:08,658 --> 00:24:10,960 We're all concerned. 351 00:24:10,993 --> 00:24:12,928 Was this the tip of the iceberg? 352 00:24:12,962 --> 00:24:14,697 Was there more to follow? 353 00:24:14,730 --> 00:24:18,300 You had the Pentagon attack and, of course, 354 00:24:18,333 --> 00:24:20,636 the plane that went down in Shanksville, Flight 93. 355 00:24:20,670 --> 00:24:24,607 So that's four major, major attacks all in one. 356 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,010 What's to say there aren't five, six, ten, 12? 357 00:24:28,043 --> 00:24:32,281 We have to find out whatever there is that one can find out 358 00:24:32,314 --> 00:24:35,284 so that if there is another plot on the way, 359 00:24:35,317 --> 00:24:38,954 whether today, tomorrow, next week, next month. 360 00:24:38,988 --> 00:24:40,422 We stop it. 361 00:24:43,225 --> 00:24:45,194 The clear assumption by federal lawmen 362 00:24:45,227 --> 00:24:47,597 is that these terrorists had help from accomplices 363 00:24:47,597 --> 00:24:49,899 who may still be in the United States. 364 00:24:49,932 --> 00:24:52,267 What is not is clear is whether those accomplices 365 00:24:52,301 --> 00:24:55,137 were only bit players in this historic assault 366 00:24:55,170 --> 00:24:56,606 or whether they may still have still 367 00:24:56,606 --> 00:24:58,908 to be launched terrorist plans of their own. 368 00:24:58,941 --> 00:25:00,643 The dust was still rising. 369 00:25:00,676 --> 00:25:03,646 There were two different mindsets. 370 00:25:03,679 --> 00:25:06,015 There was a brand-new FBI director. 371 00:25:06,048 --> 00:25:08,217 His name was Robert Mueller, 372 00:25:08,250 --> 00:25:12,421 and he was a very exacting manager. 373 00:25:12,454 --> 00:25:15,090 He asked a million questions. 374 00:25:15,124 --> 00:25:19,461 Right after the World Trade Center attack, 375 00:25:19,494 --> 00:25:23,265 Robert Mueller came to the garage to see me. 376 00:25:23,298 --> 00:25:24,800 The director of the FBI 377 00:25:24,834 --> 00:25:27,236 who will subsequently introduce the Attorney General, 378 00:25:27,269 --> 00:25:30,673 but we are all very pleased and honored 379 00:25:30,706 --> 00:25:33,375 to have the director of the FBI, Bob Mueller here. 380 00:25:33,408 --> 00:25:35,377 A morning meeting with Director Mueller 381 00:25:35,410 --> 00:25:38,447 in the days after 9/11 was not just a meeting. 382 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,182 It was a cross examination. 383 00:25:40,215 --> 00:25:41,784 This is a group that, you can see, 384 00:25:41,817 --> 00:25:46,521 turned this parking garage into a huge command post. 385 00:25:46,555 --> 00:25:49,491 So, when you kind of think of that personality, 386 00:25:49,524 --> 00:25:52,361 the ability to run that case from headquarters 387 00:25:52,394 --> 00:25:55,030 for somebody who wanted to be that hands-on, 388 00:25:55,064 --> 00:25:56,465 the way he was leaning. 389 00:25:56,498 --> 00:25:58,668 You should know this is a great, hardworking group 390 00:25:58,668 --> 00:26:00,836 that have been doing it every day 391 00:26:00,870 --> 00:26:04,273 without a day off working 12 to 16 hours. 392 00:26:04,306 --> 00:26:07,242 And he said that he was going 393 00:26:07,276 --> 00:26:10,279 to take the investigation back to Washington. 394 00:26:10,312 --> 00:26:12,314 With that, ladies and gentlemen, 395 00:26:12,347 --> 00:26:14,016 the director of the FBI. 396 00:26:14,049 --> 00:26:17,452 (applause) 397 00:26:17,486 --> 00:26:19,989 Despite the fact that thousands of leads 398 00:26:20,022 --> 00:26:21,857 are coming into the garage, 399 00:26:21,891 --> 00:26:24,694 and agents are working them as fast as they can. 400 00:26:24,694 --> 00:26:26,495 Three weeks ago, we were all doing something else. 401 00:26:26,528 --> 00:26:31,166 The entire operation is one administrative decision away 402 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,268 from being shut down. 403 00:26:33,302 --> 00:26:35,938 And within 24 hours, we all pulled together. 404 00:26:35,971 --> 00:26:37,907 28 agencies. 405 00:26:37,940 --> 00:26:39,909 I argued against that. 406 00:26:39,942 --> 00:26:44,613 I said, "Director, you cannot run an investigation 407 00:26:44,714 --> 00:26:47,549 out of Washington. You don't have investigators." 408 00:26:47,582 --> 00:26:49,952 Disaster has produced any number of heroes. 409 00:26:49,985 --> 00:26:53,255 He said, "I am aware of that so I'm going to take half 410 00:26:53,288 --> 00:26:57,426 of your people down to Washington, DC." 411 00:26:57,459 --> 00:26:58,894 Which I argued against. 412 00:26:58,928 --> 00:27:03,733 So many heroes out there that we ought to applaud. 413 00:27:03,766 --> 00:27:07,803 But he was the director. He was my boss 414 00:27:07,837 --> 00:27:10,205 and he said that's the way it's going to happen. 415 00:27:12,808 --> 00:27:14,744 He made that decision despite our best effort 416 00:27:14,744 --> 00:27:16,345 to convince him not to. 417 00:27:16,378 --> 00:27:20,349 And we will, we will bring these individuals to justice. 418 00:27:20,382 --> 00:27:22,017 Now, let me introduce the Attorney General 419 00:27:22,051 --> 00:27:23,919 of the United States, John Ashcroft. 420 00:27:23,953 --> 00:27:27,189 New York had really strong feelings about this. 421 00:27:27,222 --> 00:27:29,491 There were too many people dead. 422 00:27:29,524 --> 00:27:31,393 There was too much history 423 00:27:31,426 --> 00:27:36,398 and there had to be an element of we feel responsible 424 00:27:36,431 --> 00:27:39,601 for this as well and we need to make it right. 425 00:27:49,912 --> 00:27:52,815 When you think of the New York office of the FBI, 426 00:27:52,848 --> 00:27:55,317 we did the World Trade Center Bomb. 427 00:27:55,350 --> 00:27:57,953 We did the case of the Blind Sheikh. 428 00:27:57,987 --> 00:28:00,422 We prevented all these other attacks. 429 00:28:00,455 --> 00:28:03,625 We know all these players. We've prosecuted them in court. 430 00:28:03,658 --> 00:28:07,997 We've obtained conviction. They're all doing life 431 00:28:08,030 --> 00:28:10,833 and we don't want something this important to be handed off 432 00:28:10,866 --> 00:28:12,802 to a bunch of people at headquarters. 433 00:28:14,837 --> 00:28:17,172 By the morning of September 13th, 434 00:28:17,206 --> 00:28:19,942 the garage is fighting two battles. 435 00:28:19,975 --> 00:28:21,977 One against the terrorists. 436 00:28:22,011 --> 00:28:26,181 Another to keep control of the investigation 437 00:28:26,215 --> 00:28:30,152 and it's determined to win both. 438 00:28:30,185 --> 00:28:34,089 They couldn't get together between Fort Meade and Langley 439 00:28:34,123 --> 00:28:36,325 and the J. Edgar Hoover Building 440 00:28:36,358 --> 00:28:39,461 but then when you went into that space at the garage, 441 00:28:39,494 --> 00:28:40,830 who was there? 442 00:28:40,830 --> 00:28:45,400 NSA, CIA, FBI, NYPD, the Defense Department. 443 00:28:45,434 --> 00:28:49,738 Men and women from 16 intelligence agencies 444 00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:51,506 and all the information was on the table. 445 00:28:51,540 --> 00:28:52,674 They could literally yell it 446 00:28:52,707 --> 00:28:55,544 across the room to the next guy, 447 00:28:55,577 --> 00:28:58,881 all there, doing it the way they were supposed to. 448 00:28:58,914 --> 00:29:00,850 They couldn't get it together in Washington, 449 00:29:00,883 --> 00:29:04,553 but they could get it together in that garage. 450 00:29:04,586 --> 00:29:08,523 More than 25 agencies begin working together. 451 00:29:08,557 --> 00:29:12,127 They are outrunning Washington and determined to keep going. 452 00:29:12,161 --> 00:29:13,562 So many others want to thank you 453 00:29:13,595 --> 00:29:15,998 for the extraordinary response 454 00:29:16,031 --> 00:29:18,968 to this extraordinary act of terror. 455 00:29:19,001 --> 00:29:22,704 FBI Director Robert Mueller concedes. 456 00:29:22,737 --> 00:29:24,139 The team in New York 457 00:29:24,173 --> 00:29:27,009 will continue to be a major driver 458 00:29:27,042 --> 00:29:31,113 in what is becoming an all-consuming investigation. 459 00:29:31,146 --> 00:29:32,982 Let me introduce the Attorney General. 460 00:29:33,015 --> 00:29:35,184 I was pretty frightened 461 00:29:35,217 --> 00:29:41,356 when I first saw the building with the new occupancy. 462 00:29:41,390 --> 00:29:47,529 Martha Stewart Studio and Test Kitchens are on the 9th floor. 463 00:29:47,562 --> 00:29:51,901 There was the razor wire. I remember looking up 464 00:29:51,934 --> 00:29:56,371 and seeing guns hanging over the rooftop. 465 00:29:56,405 --> 00:30:00,275 You could see the guns clearly over the parapets. 466 00:30:00,309 --> 00:30:01,843 This was warfare. 467 00:30:01,843 --> 00:30:01,911 This was warfare. I thought, well, either we are a target, 468 00:30:01,911 --> 00:30:04,146 I thought, well, either we are a target, 469 00:30:04,179 --> 00:30:09,184 or we are protected, and it was a terrifying 470 00:30:09,218 --> 00:30:13,188 and yet comforting at the same time. 471 00:30:13,222 --> 00:30:15,190 You knew who they were when they got in the elevator. 472 00:30:15,224 --> 00:30:17,726 They were packing a weapon. 473 00:30:17,759 --> 00:30:21,363 They were extremely serious about their jobs but friendly. 474 00:30:21,396 --> 00:30:25,968 There were lots of people on that floor. 475 00:30:26,001 --> 00:30:29,738 Very busy with computers and telephones ringing 476 00:30:29,771 --> 00:30:32,307 and you can imagine what they had to, 477 00:30:32,341 --> 00:30:34,944 they were trying to figure out who the heck did this. 478 00:30:37,212 --> 00:30:40,882 The viable leads coming in, you know, trite expression, 479 00:30:40,916 --> 00:30:42,684 drinking from a fire hose? 480 00:30:42,717 --> 00:30:44,253 We were drinking from fire hoses 481 00:30:44,286 --> 00:30:47,289 from every fire department in the nation, it felt like. 482 00:30:47,322 --> 00:30:49,291 It was a flow that would not stop. 483 00:30:49,324 --> 00:30:51,360 Keep in mind it was coming in, not only from New York, 484 00:30:51,393 --> 00:30:54,363 but all over the country. All over the world. 485 00:30:59,501 --> 00:31:03,238 I thought, God, these poor people working round the clock, 486 00:31:03,272 --> 00:31:04,439 and I felt so sorry for them 487 00:31:04,473 --> 00:31:06,175 because there was no place to buy food. 488 00:31:06,208 --> 00:31:10,645 New York was basically shut down for a while after 9/11. 489 00:31:10,679 --> 00:31:13,983 I thought, well maybe they'll allow me to bring down 490 00:31:13,983 --> 00:31:16,151 everything that we make in the test kitchen. 491 00:31:16,185 --> 00:31:18,453 Why not give it to these hardworking people 492 00:31:18,487 --> 00:31:21,356 who are basically living on the second floor? 493 00:31:21,390 --> 00:31:24,026 So, one day, Martha Stewart is coming up the ramp 494 00:31:24,059 --> 00:31:25,527 and she said, 495 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,129 "I just want you guys to have something." 496 00:31:27,162 --> 00:31:29,398 It was a standard size, you know, round, 497 00:31:29,431 --> 00:31:31,700 birthday type of cake, layer cake. 498 00:31:31,733 --> 00:31:34,403 And she said, "I just really appreciate all you people, 499 00:31:34,436 --> 00:31:35,404 what you're doing." 500 00:31:35,437 --> 00:31:39,141 So, we would take down food and, 501 00:31:39,174 --> 00:31:40,742 and see the smiles and the, 502 00:31:40,775 --> 00:31:45,114 and the weariness of the workers there on that floor. 503 00:31:45,147 --> 00:31:47,782 Everybody thanked her 504 00:31:47,816 --> 00:31:51,720 and she didn't try to decorate the garage either. 505 00:31:51,753 --> 00:31:54,556 I would have loved to have made over that garage. 506 00:31:54,589 --> 00:31:56,858 I probably would have made them some lounges 507 00:31:56,891 --> 00:32:01,263 where they could have kitchens where they could eat. 508 00:32:01,296 --> 00:32:03,232 I would have probably put better lighting in there. 509 00:32:03,265 --> 00:32:04,833 It was a pretty dingy place. 510 00:32:04,866 --> 00:32:06,101 You have to have some humor 511 00:32:06,135 --> 00:32:09,171 to get your through these awful events. 512 00:32:09,204 --> 00:32:10,839 They keep you sane, 513 00:32:10,872 --> 00:32:13,375 so Martha Stewart was very, very nice. 514 00:32:16,845 --> 00:32:20,649 As we were finding out about all of the skyjackers. 515 00:32:20,682 --> 00:32:24,919 Our thought at the time was we have to identify 516 00:32:24,953 --> 00:32:27,056 all of them and their links. 517 00:32:27,056 --> 00:32:30,125 So, part of the installation at the garage was these secure, 518 00:32:30,159 --> 00:32:33,928 classified phonelines and they proved to be vital. 519 00:32:36,265 --> 00:32:38,100 It would ring several times a day 520 00:32:38,133 --> 00:32:40,669 and I'd be on the phone with Ali Soufan, 521 00:32:40,702 --> 00:32:44,839 one of the agents who was assigned over in Yemen. 522 00:32:44,873 --> 00:32:47,209 On 9/11, I was in the embassy 523 00:32:47,242 --> 00:32:51,246 in Sana'a investigating the "USS Cole." 524 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:55,550 Less than a year before 9/11, the "USS Cole," 525 00:32:55,584 --> 00:32:58,620 an American Destroyer, is refueling in Yemen. 526 00:32:58,653 --> 00:33:00,522 The bomb was carried by a small boat 527 00:33:00,555 --> 00:33:02,424 that helped the destroyer moor in the harbor. 528 00:33:02,457 --> 00:33:06,628 The tiny fishing boat, the men on board waving and smiling 529 00:33:06,661 --> 00:33:11,600 pulls up beside the destroyer and explodes. 530 00:33:11,633 --> 00:33:14,836 The bomb rips a hole in the side of the warship, 531 00:33:14,869 --> 00:33:19,541 killing 17 American sailors and nearly sinking the "Cole." 532 00:33:22,177 --> 00:33:24,746 You see the attack on the "USS Cole." 533 00:33:24,779 --> 00:33:29,184 This is critical because you start to see a picture 534 00:33:29,218 --> 00:33:32,387 come into richer focus. 535 00:33:32,421 --> 00:33:34,656 Who are the people who blew up the "Cole"? 536 00:33:34,689 --> 00:33:37,192 Another one. Another plane just hit! 537 00:33:37,226 --> 00:33:39,961 Oh, my God. Another plane has just hit. 538 00:33:39,994 --> 00:33:41,263 It hit another building. 539 00:33:41,296 --> 00:33:43,031 We were trying to call headquarters 540 00:33:43,132 --> 00:33:44,899 and see what was going on in New York 541 00:33:44,933 --> 00:33:48,570 and basically said you need to stay, 542 00:33:48,603 --> 00:33:51,606 and I was really annoyed. I mean, you want us to stay. 543 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,444 The "USS Cole" can wait. You know, we're under attack 544 00:33:55,477 --> 00:33:57,146 and the answer from headquarters 545 00:33:57,179 --> 00:33:59,548 was it's not about the "USS Cole." 546 00:33:59,581 --> 00:34:02,151 It's about what just happened here. 547 00:34:02,151 --> 00:34:04,286 You go to the embassy and so and so 548 00:34:04,319 --> 00:34:07,456 will give you what you need to know. 549 00:34:09,658 --> 00:34:13,027 We started to identify a number of the individuals 550 00:34:13,061 --> 00:34:15,964 that were on the various planes. 551 00:34:15,997 --> 00:34:17,766 As we developed that, 552 00:34:17,799 --> 00:34:21,703 we were able to send those names over to Ali Soufan 553 00:34:21,736 --> 00:34:24,506 who was dealing with jailed extremists. 554 00:34:27,409 --> 00:34:31,680 I went with my CIA colleague in his car back to the embassy. 555 00:34:31,713 --> 00:34:33,548 We go to his office, and he gave me 556 00:34:33,582 --> 00:34:35,584 a manilla envelope and I opened it 557 00:34:35,617 --> 00:34:40,722 and I could not believe what I was seeing. 558 00:34:40,755 --> 00:34:44,293 Khalid Mihdhar and Nawaf Hazmi, who are connected to people 559 00:34:44,326 --> 00:34:46,761 who are involved in the "USS Cole," 560 00:34:46,795 --> 00:34:50,232 had been in the United States. 561 00:34:50,265 --> 00:34:52,334 They were identified as hijackers. 562 00:34:52,367 --> 00:34:55,370 Two people who were on the planes, 563 00:34:55,404 --> 00:34:57,972 we're looking for them in Yemen. 564 00:34:58,006 --> 00:35:01,042 Our government knew that they were in San Diego. 565 00:35:04,579 --> 00:35:06,481 What Ali Soufan has just learned 566 00:35:06,515 --> 00:35:08,983 but no one in the garage yet knows 567 00:35:09,017 --> 00:35:12,787 is that the CIA has been tracking two of the hijackers 568 00:35:12,821 --> 00:35:15,056 for nearly a year. 569 00:35:15,089 --> 00:35:18,760 The CIA, however, had yet to process the information 570 00:35:18,793 --> 00:35:21,230 and so failed to share it 571 00:35:21,230 --> 00:35:25,234 with the FBI in time to locate the hijackers. 572 00:35:25,267 --> 00:35:29,704 I just threw the file back on his desk. 573 00:35:29,738 --> 00:35:36,044 The only thing I can do is just get out of his office, 574 00:35:36,077 --> 00:35:38,413 straight to the bathroom across the hall 575 00:35:38,447 --> 00:35:41,250 and puking my guts out 576 00:35:41,250 --> 00:35:43,252 until one of my colleagues 577 00:35:43,252 --> 00:35:47,889 came in and said, "Buddy, you okay?" 578 00:35:47,922 --> 00:35:50,825 I remember, I just looked at him and said, "They knew. 579 00:35:50,859 --> 00:35:53,262 They knew everything." 580 00:35:53,262 --> 00:35:56,865 The CIA would also acknowledge failing to put the Al Qaeda 581 00:35:56,898 --> 00:36:01,270 operatives on the terrorist watch list sooner. 582 00:36:06,275 --> 00:36:09,444 Days after the attacks, the Yemenis reveal 583 00:36:09,478 --> 00:36:13,081 that they too are hiding something extraordinary. 584 00:36:13,114 --> 00:36:16,751 When he walked into the room, he wouldn't even look at me. 585 00:36:16,785 --> 00:36:21,456 He literally took his chair and turned it towards the wall. 586 00:36:21,490 --> 00:36:25,327 Ali Soufan is brought to meet a secret prisoner. 587 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:29,531 A terrorist whose alias is Abu Jandal. 588 00:36:29,564 --> 00:36:32,467 He won't even recognize that I'm a Muslim. 589 00:36:32,501 --> 00:36:36,104 He didn't believe me but a little bit by a little bit, 590 00:36:36,137 --> 00:36:39,474 the relationship was a little bit better. 591 00:36:39,508 --> 00:36:43,712 He start lecturing us a lot about Islam, about the world. 592 00:36:43,745 --> 00:36:49,951 About Bin Laden. About revolutions. 593 00:36:49,984 --> 00:36:53,655 The reason the Yemenis have been hiding Abu Jandal-- 594 00:36:53,688 --> 00:36:58,660 he is Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard. 595 00:36:58,693 --> 00:37:01,696 Soufan shows Abu Jandal photos 596 00:37:01,730 --> 00:37:04,232 of the World Trade Center attacks, 597 00:37:04,333 --> 00:37:06,435 but he adds a lie-- 598 00:37:06,468 --> 00:37:11,139 that hundreds of Muslim Yemenis died in the towers. 599 00:37:11,172 --> 00:37:15,143 Those people were on the planes that hit 600 00:37:15,176 --> 00:37:18,012 the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 601 00:37:18,046 --> 00:37:22,884 Those people murdered all these Yemenis. 602 00:37:25,354 --> 00:37:28,857 So, he was totally taken back. 603 00:37:28,890 --> 00:37:32,694 He put his head between his hands, 604 00:37:32,727 --> 00:37:34,563 and he starts shaking and he said, 605 00:37:34,596 --> 00:37:37,766 "I need five minutes." 606 00:37:37,799 --> 00:37:40,369 So, we went out of the room. 607 00:37:40,369 --> 00:37:45,440 We left him in the room, and I walked in again 608 00:37:45,474 --> 00:37:49,678 and then he said, "I think the Sheikh one's crazy. 609 00:37:49,711 --> 00:37:52,981 What do you want to know?" 610 00:37:53,014 --> 00:37:57,819 I said, "We have a photobook. Some people probably you know, 611 00:37:57,852 --> 00:38:00,522 some people I'm sure you don't know." 612 00:38:00,555 --> 00:38:02,624 He identified Mohamed Atta. 613 00:38:02,657 --> 00:38:04,393 He identified about seven people 614 00:38:04,393 --> 00:38:07,996 who later were identified all as hijackers, 615 00:38:08,029 --> 00:38:10,832 giving us their nationality, 616 00:38:10,865 --> 00:38:15,937 their alias, and a lot of details about them. 617 00:38:15,970 --> 00:38:20,041 That was significant. 618 00:38:20,074 --> 00:38:23,412 This is the evidence we needed. 619 00:38:23,412 --> 00:38:25,614 Bin Laden's bodyguard has now 620 00:38:25,647 --> 00:38:29,150 given the FBI absolute proof, 621 00:38:29,183 --> 00:38:34,255 connecting Al Qaeda to the World Trade Center attack. 622 00:38:34,288 --> 00:38:37,325 We understand that it's really important to pass 623 00:38:37,426 --> 00:38:38,893 this information to New York. 624 00:38:41,596 --> 00:38:44,232 Kenny, it's Bin Laden. 100 percent. 625 00:38:46,768 --> 00:38:50,271 When those first clues in Yemen 626 00:38:50,304 --> 00:38:54,443 and Abu Jandal's revelations to Ali Soufan 627 00:38:54,476 --> 00:38:56,678 come into the garage, you know, 628 00:38:56,711 --> 00:38:57,979 the people who are piecing together 629 00:38:58,012 --> 00:39:00,949 everything from everywhere say, okay. 630 00:39:00,982 --> 00:39:03,718 This is big. This has meaning. 631 00:39:03,752 --> 00:39:05,319 Seven of the hijackers 632 00:39:05,353 --> 00:39:08,790 were identified as Qaeda operatives by the bodyguard. 633 00:39:11,593 --> 00:39:14,729 The breakthroughs that occurred in those interviews 634 00:39:14,763 --> 00:39:21,470 was really putting the key into the lock of the secrets of 9/11 635 00:39:21,503 --> 00:39:23,204 and turning it. 636 00:39:23,237 --> 00:39:26,140 Abu Jandal was that. 637 00:39:26,174 --> 00:39:27,876 - Turning to what's now a sprawling 638 00:39:27,909 --> 00:39:28,977 criminal investigation 639 00:39:29,010 --> 00:39:31,112 of the coordinated suicide attacks, 640 00:39:31,145 --> 00:39:32,947 investigators have made quick work 641 00:39:32,981 --> 00:39:35,283 of identifying the skyjackers. 642 00:39:35,316 --> 00:39:38,487 So, Abu Jandal was identifying people left and right 643 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,123 and all the information was coming straight to New York 644 00:39:42,156 --> 00:39:45,059 and New York were acting upon this information, 645 00:39:45,093 --> 00:39:48,396 putting wanted posters for some individuals 646 00:39:48,497 --> 00:39:50,765 that we identified and following 647 00:39:50,799 --> 00:39:53,735 on a lot of the leads that we were generating. 648 00:39:54,503 --> 00:39:57,939 The board became a lot more refined as time went on. 649 00:39:57,972 --> 00:40:00,074 As more information came in that 650 00:40:00,108 --> 00:40:02,944 we could permanently affix up there 651 00:40:02,977 --> 00:40:05,113 in terms of a flow chart. 652 00:40:05,146 --> 00:40:06,581 You wanted to get back after you did your leads 653 00:40:06,615 --> 00:40:08,883 and write up your investigation and document it 654 00:40:08,917 --> 00:40:10,384 so that the case squad 655 00:40:10,418 --> 00:40:13,187 could have that information as soon as possible 656 00:40:13,221 --> 00:40:15,590 because something you're holding may be a missing piece 657 00:40:15,624 --> 00:40:17,191 and you don't know it. 658 00:40:17,225 --> 00:40:19,427 You don't know what you have. They know what they need. 659 00:40:22,330 --> 00:40:25,366 This grind went on for, like, 60 days 660 00:40:25,399 --> 00:40:29,170 before a day off, which is, you know, it was okay for me 661 00:40:29,203 --> 00:40:30,539 'cause I was in the zone. 662 00:40:30,572 --> 00:40:31,773 I wanted to be with my peers. 663 00:40:31,806 --> 00:40:33,508 I wanted to be with other FBI agents. 664 00:40:36,845 --> 00:40:38,346 The leads from 9/11 665 00:40:38,379 --> 00:40:42,917 which is opening entire new books into Al Qaeda 666 00:40:42,951 --> 00:40:44,719 that had never been cracked before 667 00:40:44,753 --> 00:40:47,989 including the recruitment of English-speaking people 668 00:40:48,022 --> 00:40:50,692 to come to flight schools. 669 00:40:50,725 --> 00:40:52,894 In terms of connecting the dots, 670 00:40:52,927 --> 00:40:54,629 who were these people who flew the planes 671 00:40:54,663 --> 00:40:56,798 and how did they learn to fly? 672 00:40:56,831 --> 00:40:59,668 With whom were they associated when they're in the country. 673 00:40:59,701 --> 00:41:01,402 We realized pretty quickly 674 00:41:01,435 --> 00:41:03,271 there's an awful lot of flight schools 675 00:41:03,304 --> 00:41:06,675 that can teach you to fly a commercial airliner 676 00:41:06,708 --> 00:41:08,342 and of those flight schools, 677 00:41:08,376 --> 00:41:12,346 a lot of them had a lot of Mideastern males as students. 678 00:41:12,380 --> 00:41:16,718 We need to know what else is happening. 679 00:41:16,751 --> 00:41:18,887 Who else in involved? 680 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,223 Who else is a sleeper cell somewhere, 681 00:41:22,256 --> 00:41:24,826 waiting for the instructions to attack? 682 00:41:24,859 --> 00:41:28,262 Pull back, pull back. All the way to the green bar. 683 00:41:34,468 --> 00:41:37,371 The thing that struck me so odd when I went into the garage 684 00:41:37,405 --> 00:41:40,108 was that I smelled, like, gas and oil and rubber 685 00:41:40,141 --> 00:41:41,475 and all the things that, 686 00:41:41,509 --> 00:41:43,612 you know, would typically find in a garage 687 00:41:43,645 --> 00:41:46,380 and you're among all these computer terminals 688 00:41:46,414 --> 00:41:50,384 and FBI people setting leads and covering leads. 689 00:41:50,418 --> 00:41:53,788 Leads are pouring in from all over the world 690 00:41:53,822 --> 00:41:55,857 but one of the most critical 691 00:41:55,890 --> 00:42:00,662 comes from inside the FBI itself. 692 00:42:00,695 --> 00:42:04,132 We had been pushing to our management in Minneapolis 693 00:42:04,165 --> 00:42:06,234 to let New York know 694 00:42:06,267 --> 00:42:09,938 we had a subject who had to be connected to the attacks. 695 00:42:23,084 --> 00:42:24,653 When I got to New York, 696 00:42:24,653 --> 00:42:29,791 I immediately went to the garage ready to brief agents 697 00:42:29,824 --> 00:42:32,260 and prosecutors on Mr. Moussaoui. 698 00:42:34,295 --> 00:42:38,099 Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen. 699 00:42:38,132 --> 00:42:40,201 He has been in flight school in Minnesota 700 00:42:40,234 --> 00:42:43,371 until weeks before 9/11. 701 00:42:43,404 --> 00:42:47,175 When the FBI is alerted to his strange behavior, 702 00:42:47,208 --> 00:42:51,545 agents arrest him on immigration charges. 703 00:42:51,579 --> 00:42:57,185 Zacarias Moussaoui was taking flying lessons, 704 00:42:57,218 --> 00:43:01,022 but it raised concern by the instructor 705 00:43:01,055 --> 00:43:03,357 is that he just wanted to know how to fly. 706 00:43:03,391 --> 00:43:06,728 He really didn't want to learn everything there was 707 00:43:06,761 --> 00:43:08,830 about manning an airplane. 708 00:43:08,863 --> 00:43:12,901 This revelation about Moussaoui is conveyed to Ali Soufan 709 00:43:12,934 --> 00:43:14,168 over in Yemen. 710 00:43:14,202 --> 00:43:17,706 Soufan runs it past Bin Laden's bodyguard. 711 00:43:21,042 --> 00:43:25,780 Abu Jandal identified Moussaoui. 712 00:43:25,814 --> 00:43:29,217 Basically, he gave us a lot of things about him, 713 00:43:29,250 --> 00:43:32,921 his involvement in Al Qaeda. His alias in Al Qaeda. 714 00:43:32,954 --> 00:43:37,726 Now we know that this person wasn't only a crazy person 715 00:43:37,759 --> 00:43:39,828 who said, "I wanna learn how to fly, 716 00:43:39,861 --> 00:43:41,462 "but I just wanna take off. 717 00:43:41,495 --> 00:43:43,197 I don't care about landing." 718 00:43:44,065 --> 00:43:47,601 This guy is actually a member of Al Qaeda... 719 00:43:49,938 --> 00:43:53,141 and worked for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. 720 00:43:58,646 --> 00:44:01,015 Realizing the terrorist network in the US 721 00:44:01,049 --> 00:44:03,785 is larger than anyone imagined, 722 00:44:03,818 --> 00:44:07,421 the FBI puts even more pressure on Moussaoui. 723 00:44:07,455 --> 00:44:09,958 Mr. Moussaoui was hostile. 724 00:44:09,991 --> 00:44:12,460 We could tell he didn't like us. 725 00:44:12,493 --> 00:44:15,864 We were going to go for broke on this interview 726 00:44:15,897 --> 00:44:17,265 and so we said, 727 00:44:17,298 --> 00:44:20,468 "We're aware that you're a member of a group." 728 00:44:20,501 --> 00:44:21,770 When he heard the word group, 729 00:44:21,770 --> 00:44:23,637 that really concerned Moussaoui. 730 00:44:23,671 --> 00:44:26,875 His eyes kind of got wide. His jaw dropped. 731 00:44:26,908 --> 00:44:32,613 That also fit our concern as to were there others out there? 732 00:44:32,646 --> 00:44:37,919 Potential hijackers and/or potential support elements 733 00:44:39,553 --> 00:44:42,690 that would create a second wave. 734 00:44:44,926 --> 00:44:46,928 Or create other incidents. 735 00:44:46,961 --> 00:44:49,297 I said, "Mr. Moussaoui, you're here with us in custody 736 00:44:49,330 --> 00:44:50,631 "and you're going to remain in custody 737 00:44:50,664 --> 00:44:52,400 "but your friends who are out there 738 00:44:52,433 --> 00:44:54,668 "who are going to carry out this attack, they're not, 739 00:44:54,702 --> 00:44:57,505 "and if people are hurt, you're going to be held 740 00:44:57,538 --> 00:45:00,308 accountable by the United States government." 741 00:45:05,013 --> 00:45:07,481 Everyone was in a high state of alert. 742 00:45:07,515 --> 00:45:09,851 When's the next attack? 743 00:45:12,220 --> 00:45:13,487 Obviously, we didn't prevent this one, 744 00:45:13,521 --> 00:45:14,722 but can we prevent the next one? 745 00:45:21,329 --> 00:45:23,397 The urgency, for sure, 746 00:45:23,431 --> 00:45:25,233 was identifying co-conspirators, 747 00:45:25,266 --> 00:45:29,270 was identifying anybody who might have been working 748 00:45:29,303 --> 00:45:31,372 with Moussaoui to do the same thing. 749 00:45:31,405 --> 00:45:32,941 Who might have been financing him, 750 00:45:32,974 --> 00:45:35,076 who might have trained him. 751 00:45:35,910 --> 00:45:40,181 Was Moussaoui going to be used in a terrorist plot after that? 752 00:45:40,214 --> 00:45:41,582 I'm sure he was. 753 00:45:41,615 --> 00:45:43,651 They didn't send him here for tourism, right? 754 00:45:43,684 --> 00:45:47,488 They sent him for terrorism but again, 755 00:45:47,521 --> 00:45:49,991 he was arrested before that happened. 756 00:45:50,024 --> 00:45:51,860 That was very, very important in terms 757 00:45:51,860 --> 00:45:56,564 of establishing a real concrete connection between Bin Laden, 758 00:45:56,597 --> 00:45:59,433 Al Qaeda, and the hijackers as well. 759 00:45:59,467 --> 00:46:00,869 We're working day and night. 760 00:46:00,869 --> 00:46:03,171 We're interviewing people left and right, you know? 761 00:46:03,204 --> 00:46:06,274 We're getting significant amount of information. 762 00:46:06,307 --> 00:46:08,209 It's very important to pass it to New York. 763 00:46:11,179 --> 00:46:13,014 However, some of this intelligence 764 00:46:13,047 --> 00:46:16,084 is difficult to interpret. 765 00:46:16,117 --> 00:46:18,953 In particular, the agents struggle 766 00:46:18,987 --> 00:46:21,956 with intercepted Al Qaeda phone calls 767 00:46:21,990 --> 00:46:25,626 about a mysterious figure linked to the attacks, 768 00:46:25,659 --> 00:46:28,029 but still at large. 769 00:46:28,062 --> 00:46:30,798 And there was all this chatter, 770 00:46:30,899 --> 00:46:33,968 and part of the chatter was this guy, Mukhtar, 771 00:46:34,002 --> 00:46:36,604 which was believed to be somebody that was involved, 772 00:46:36,637 --> 00:46:38,172 but we didn't know who he was. 773 00:46:40,508 --> 00:46:42,176 To chase down this lead, 774 00:46:42,210 --> 00:46:46,080 Ali Soufan flies to a secret prison in Thailand. 775 00:46:46,114 --> 00:46:49,417 He interrogates a captured Bin Laden associate 776 00:46:49,450 --> 00:46:52,053 named Abu Zubaydah 777 00:46:52,086 --> 00:46:55,589 When hearing about this Le Mukhtar, 778 00:46:55,623 --> 00:46:58,226 the one who, whose brain flew away. 779 00:46:58,259 --> 00:47:00,394 All the time, Le Mukhtar, Le Mukhtar 780 00:47:00,428 --> 00:47:01,829 And I'm like, who is Le Mukhtar 781 00:47:01,930 --> 00:47:04,332 who is this guy whose brain flew away? 782 00:47:04,365 --> 00:47:07,768 Maybe he's Bin Laden because he went crazy after 9/11 783 00:47:07,801 --> 00:47:09,403 doing something like this. 784 00:47:09,437 --> 00:47:13,074 Soufan shows Zubaydah photos of known terrorists, 785 00:47:13,107 --> 00:47:17,411 trying to trace the Al Qaeda network from the bottom up, 786 00:47:17,445 --> 00:47:19,948 but Zubaydah is stunned. 787 00:47:21,249 --> 00:47:24,752 So, he said, "Please, brother. Don't play games with me. 788 00:47:24,785 --> 00:47:27,321 This is Mukhtar. 789 00:47:27,355 --> 00:47:31,225 This is the one who did the plane operation." 790 00:47:36,830 --> 00:47:41,102 The FBI analysts have been mishearing the name. 791 00:47:41,135 --> 00:47:46,840 Lee Mukhtar is actually Mukhtar and Mukhtar 792 00:47:46,874 --> 00:47:50,979 is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 793 00:47:50,979 --> 00:47:54,415 someone the FBI thought they knew well. 794 00:47:59,453 --> 00:48:04,225 I was like, whoa. Mukhtar. 795 00:48:04,258 --> 00:48:09,297 Le Mukhtar. I was totally shocked. 796 00:48:09,330 --> 00:48:11,199 Totally shocked because, honestly, at the time, 797 00:48:11,232 --> 00:48:14,002 we didn't even know he was a member of Al Qaeda. 798 00:48:14,002 --> 00:48:17,338 In an instant, Soufan makes a stunning connection. 799 00:48:17,371 --> 00:48:22,610 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the uncle of Ramzi Yousef. 800 00:48:22,643 --> 00:48:26,247 The mastermind of the first World Trade Center attack 801 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:27,848 in 1993. 802 00:48:32,220 --> 00:48:34,522 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, before joining Al Qaeda, 803 00:48:34,555 --> 00:48:36,057 came to Abu Zubaydah, 804 00:48:36,090 --> 00:48:40,028 and he wanted to do an operation in the United States, 805 00:48:40,061 --> 00:48:42,096 targeting the World Trade Center 806 00:48:42,130 --> 00:48:45,766 to follow up with what Ramzi Yousef started. 807 00:48:45,799 --> 00:48:49,037 Destroying the buildings. 808 00:48:49,070 --> 00:48:52,106 And his plot was to rent 809 00:48:52,140 --> 00:48:58,812 Cessna planes and fly them into the two buildings. 810 00:48:58,846 --> 00:49:01,849 Abu Zubaydah's response was like, 811 00:49:01,882 --> 00:49:03,384 "So you break some windows. 812 00:49:03,417 --> 00:49:07,255 "At least fill the Cessna planes with explosives 813 00:49:07,288 --> 00:49:09,390 so they can do some damage." 814 00:49:09,423 --> 00:49:12,226 So, KSM liked the idea. 815 00:49:12,260 --> 00:49:14,228 Abu Zubaydah told him the only person 816 00:49:14,262 --> 00:49:18,266 who will have a capability like this is Osama Bin Laden. 817 00:49:26,074 --> 00:49:28,542 What he had done is he had taken all of Ramzi Yousef's 818 00:49:28,576 --> 00:49:31,912 plans and kind of blown the dust off them 819 00:49:31,945 --> 00:49:33,214 and brought them to Bin Laden and said, 820 00:49:33,247 --> 00:49:37,218 "They're still good plans. We can still do bad things. 821 00:49:37,251 --> 00:49:39,920 They just need the money behind them." 822 00:49:39,953 --> 00:49:41,789 And that was the genesis of 9/11. 823 00:49:50,198 --> 00:49:52,800 You know, New York will be very interested in KSM, 824 00:49:52,833 --> 00:49:56,304 so I called on a secure line, Kenny, and I said 825 00:49:56,337 --> 00:49:59,107 Khaled Sheikh Mohammed was identified 826 00:49:59,107 --> 00:50:01,742 as the mastermind of 9/11. 827 00:50:23,431 --> 00:50:26,634 In brief, Barry just hung up with Ali, 828 00:50:26,667 --> 00:50:28,068 and here's what he's provided. 829 00:50:30,238 --> 00:50:32,473 Those details were put up on the board. 830 00:50:36,877 --> 00:50:41,315 The board is finally complete. 831 00:50:41,349 --> 00:50:44,418 There is now a clear line from the original 832 00:50:44,452 --> 00:50:46,987 World Trade Center bombing 833 00:50:47,020 --> 00:50:50,491 through Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 834 00:50:50,524 --> 00:50:53,527 to Osama Bin Laden, 835 00:50:53,561 --> 00:50:58,899 and the 2,978 murders on 9/11. 836 00:51:03,171 --> 00:51:07,175 Our enemies are about to face the consequences. 837 00:51:12,846 --> 00:51:14,248 On my orders, 838 00:51:14,282 --> 00:51:17,451 the United States military has begun strikes 839 00:51:17,485 --> 00:51:19,887 against Al Qaeda terrorist training camps 840 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:21,855 and military installations 841 00:51:21,889 --> 00:51:26,059 of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. 842 00:51:26,093 --> 00:51:31,199 It was the best time that I ever saw 843 00:51:31,232 --> 00:51:34,968 where law enforcement came together as one. 844 00:51:39,573 --> 00:51:41,542 Good evening. It's three months to the day 845 00:51:41,575 --> 00:51:43,577 since the murderous attack on America 846 00:51:43,611 --> 00:51:45,513 and the US grand jury has issued 847 00:51:45,546 --> 00:51:48,582 the first formal criminal charges in the case. 848 00:51:48,616 --> 00:51:50,318 Attorney General John Ashcroft calls 849 00:51:50,351 --> 00:51:54,388 the 30-page indictment of Zacarias Moussaoui quote, 850 00:51:54,422 --> 00:51:56,257 "A chronical of evil." 851 00:51:56,290 --> 00:51:59,760 That humble little building on the west side highway 852 00:51:59,793 --> 00:52:03,697 was housing the most complex, important, 853 00:52:03,731 --> 00:52:06,900 largest investigation in FBI history. 854 00:52:10,804 --> 00:52:12,039 An extraordinary confession 855 00:52:12,072 --> 00:52:14,642 from the suspected mastermind of 9/11 attacks. 856 00:52:14,675 --> 00:52:16,577 According to the Pentagon, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 857 00:52:16,610 --> 00:52:18,679 admitted responsibility for 9/11 858 00:52:18,712 --> 00:52:20,981 and for a string of attacks and plots, 859 00:52:21,014 --> 00:52:23,251 including plans to kill Presidents Clinton and Carter. 860 00:52:23,251 --> 00:52:25,152 What was accomplished out of that garage 861 00:52:25,253 --> 00:52:27,455 was nothing short of amazing. 862 00:52:27,488 --> 00:52:30,358 Tonight, I can report to the American people 863 00:52:30,391 --> 00:52:32,826 and to the world, the United States 864 00:52:32,860 --> 00:52:34,795 has conducted an operation that killed 865 00:52:34,828 --> 00:52:38,466 Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda. 866 00:52:40,167 --> 00:52:41,735 One by one, the United State 867 00:52:41,769 --> 00:52:44,538 dealt with those responsible for 9/11. 868 00:52:49,477 --> 00:52:51,412 Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty 869 00:52:51,445 --> 00:52:55,683 to conspiring to kill Americans as part of the attacks. 870 00:52:55,716 --> 00:53:00,521 He is currently serving a life sentence without parole. 871 00:53:00,554 --> 00:53:02,356 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 872 00:53:02,390 --> 00:53:08,296 the mastermind of the attacks, remains at Guantanamo Bay. 873 00:53:08,329 --> 00:53:10,998 His trial has yet to happen. 874 00:53:18,672 --> 00:53:21,041 What began as an improvised response 875 00:53:21,074 --> 00:53:26,614 to an emergency evacuation yielded extraordinary results. 876 00:53:28,482 --> 00:53:31,151 And that was not just figuratively 877 00:53:31,184 --> 00:53:34,455 but also quite literally the start of something. 878 00:53:34,488 --> 00:53:38,659 It was a new model. 879 00:53:38,692 --> 00:53:41,929 The structure that evolved in the 26th Street Garage 880 00:53:41,962 --> 00:53:45,198 is known as the Joint Operation Center 881 00:53:45,232 --> 00:53:48,636 In FBI parlance, the JOC. 882 00:53:48,669 --> 00:53:50,971 And it has become the template 883 00:53:51,004 --> 00:53:54,007 for counterterrorism activities. 884 00:53:54,041 --> 00:53:59,580 Agencies cooperate closely, intelligence is shared quickly, 885 00:53:59,613 --> 00:54:02,950 and there is constant vigilance. 886 00:54:15,195 --> 00:54:16,797 I look at that warehouse 887 00:54:16,830 --> 00:54:21,602 and I realize its whispered role in history. 888 00:54:21,635 --> 00:54:23,136 There's no sign, 889 00:54:23,170 --> 00:54:26,206 and nobody really knows what happened in there. 890 00:54:33,714 --> 00:54:38,419 What went on after 9/11, it should forever be here 891 00:54:38,452 --> 00:54:40,087 that the largest investigation 892 00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,656 in the history of US law enforcement, 893 00:54:42,690 --> 00:54:44,958 if not international law enforcement, 894 00:54:44,992 --> 00:54:50,664 was run from this very rudimentary grease-lidden 895 00:54:50,698 --> 00:54:54,402 on the floor, oil-slicked garage. 896 00:54:54,402 --> 00:54:57,004 It's just an incredible feat. It really is. 897 00:55:03,243 --> 00:55:05,846 In all the memories of the garage, 898 00:55:05,879 --> 00:55:09,617 both stressful but also enlightened, like hopeful. 899 00:55:09,650 --> 00:55:11,652 It was all the best of everybody 900 00:55:11,685 --> 00:55:12,953 was here in the garage. 901 00:55:12,986 --> 00:55:16,123 It was the investigators, support, the people. 902 00:55:23,130 --> 00:55:24,832 And that's what was so great about you know, 903 00:55:24,865 --> 00:55:28,135 everything in the garage was just work 904 00:55:28,168 --> 00:55:29,603 and trying to solve this, 905 00:55:29,637 --> 00:55:32,640 you know, most heinous crime ever, right? 906 00:55:32,673 --> 00:55:34,274 Just unspeakable, really, 907 00:55:34,307 --> 00:55:36,610 but everybody just sort of put aside the unspeakable 908 00:55:36,644 --> 00:55:38,446 and got it done. 909 00:55:38,446 --> 00:55:41,982 Putting aside the unthinkable and getting it done 910 00:55:42,015 --> 00:55:45,486 is what FBI agents are trained to do. 911 00:55:45,519 --> 00:55:48,822 Now, after two decades in Afghanistan, 912 00:55:48,856 --> 00:55:51,058 American troops are out. 913 00:55:51,091 --> 00:55:55,162 The threat based on history came true. 914 00:55:55,195 --> 00:55:57,698 Government fell in an instant. 915 00:55:57,731 --> 00:56:03,771 Taliban seized control. 916 00:56:03,804 --> 00:56:08,208 We're never going to eliminate terrorism in our lifetime. 917 00:56:08,241 --> 00:56:11,344 Just like the FBI's mission never ends. 918 00:56:11,378 --> 00:56:14,848 They'll regroup, find new sources 919 00:56:14,882 --> 00:56:16,884 and stay ahead of the terrorists 920 00:56:16,917 --> 00:56:20,521 as they have for the past 20 years. 921 00:56:20,554 --> 00:56:25,526 Preserving our safety in an increasingly complicated world. 922 00:56:36,804 --> 00:56:40,774 One Sunday, I was walking up the street near my house. 923 00:56:40,808 --> 00:56:42,510 There was this little church on the Upper East Side 924 00:56:42,543 --> 00:56:47,380 and I remember walking and they were singing hymns 925 00:56:47,414 --> 00:56:51,619 and I was like, they're happy. And they should be. 926 00:56:51,652 --> 00:56:55,956 They should be not-- it's okay to be joyful 927 00:56:55,989 --> 00:56:59,392 and sing in church. 928 00:56:59,426 --> 00:57:03,664 And I remember feeling like taking a minute 929 00:57:03,697 --> 00:57:08,268 and sitting outside and listening to the hymns. 930 00:57:14,107 --> 00:57:17,410 'Cause it was, I think the first time 931 00:57:17,444 --> 00:57:20,347 I was reconnecting with New York. 932 00:57:20,380 --> 00:57:24,785 First time I was seeing my fellow New Yorkers 933 00:57:24,818 --> 00:57:27,054 you know, being New Yorkers, 934 00:57:27,087 --> 00:57:30,558 and singing a hymn. 935 00:57:30,591 --> 00:57:31,759 You know? 936 00:57:31,792 --> 00:57:33,861 And they were joyful inside the church, 937 00:57:33,894 --> 00:57:36,664 so, for me, it was rewarding 938 00:57:36,697 --> 00:57:39,266 'cause it was like, it's okay, you know? 939 00:57:39,299 --> 00:57:42,302 Humanity is here. 940 00:57:42,335 --> 00:57:43,571 It's gonna be okay.