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In this episode, we explore how the intelligence wall enabled 9 11. Imagine holding a puzzle piece, right? Like a piece that could literally save 3 ,000 lives. Right, a crucial piece of information. Yeah, but you are legally blindfolded. You're completely forbidden from showing it to the person sitting right next to you. It sounds like a bad movie plot, honestly. It really does. But today, we aren't just looking at the tragedy of September 11th. We are looking at the... catastrophic blind spots, the wrong buttons pressed, and even the everyday flight delays that actually changed the course of global history. Exactly. So welcome to today's Deep Dive. We are taking a massive stack of historical research, government commission reports, timelines, and we are just breaking it all down for you. And our mission for you today is to cut through the sheer overwhelming scope of this event. I mean, it's a huge topic. It's massive. Yeah, so we are being used as dited missiles, the hijackers faced virtually no friction when they arrived at the airports that morning. Which brings us to the morning of the attacks. Because those intelligence dots remained unconnected, the hijackers just walked right through existing aviation security. Yeah, they just bought tickets and boarded. I still just can't wrap my head around is how 19 men managed to completely take over four massive commercial flights. American 11, United 175, American 77, and United 93. Right. How do you take over four planes without firing a single bullet? Well, they did it by exploiting the loopholes of the era. They didn't use firearms. They used mace. Mace. They claimed to have bombs and their primary weapons were locking blade utility knives. Basically box cutters. Box cutters. Just... crazy to think about now. It is, but the chilling reality is that in September 2001, a blade