9/11: Unanswered - Part One - EP 165

<p>www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcast</p><p>Twenty-five years later, The Conspiracy Podcast is finally tackling it. &quot;9/11: Unanswered&quot; kicks off with the day itself — minute by minute, four flights, one morning that changed everything.</p><p>It starts like any other Tuesday. Nineteen men move through four different airports — Portland, Boston, Newark, Washington Dulles — carrying box cutters and knives with blades under four inches, which was perfectly legal at the time. Ten of them get flagged by CAPPS, the era&#39;s passenger screening system, before they even board. Flagged, and let through anyway. Hosts Eric , Sean and Jorge pull apart exactly how that happened, working straight from the 9/11 Commission Report to keep the timeline accurate rather than relying on secondhand retellings.</p><p>From there it&#39;s real time. Flight attendants Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney calling it in from the air as it&#39;s happening. Daniel Lewin, a former Israeli special forces officer, trying to stop his own hijacker before anyone on the ground even knows what&#39;s unfolding. The first plane hits the North Tower and the world assumes it&#39;s an accident — until the second one hits live on television, and there&#39;s no more room for that assumption. Then the Pentagon. Then United 93, where the passengers find out, mid-flight, exactly what happened to the other three planes and make a decision most of them never get the chance to think twice about.</p><p>The episode also follows President Bush&#39;s morning at a Florida elementary school — the seven minutes in that classroom people are still arguing about twenty-five years later — through Air Force One and into the address that ended up shaping the next two decades of American foreign policy.</p><p>This one ran long. Long enough that the hosts split it into two parts rather than cut corners on any of it. Part 2 picks up exactly where this one leaves off. Later episodes in the series get into what&#39;s still unresolved after twenty-five years — the Commission&#39;s own gaps, the disputed collapse of Building 7, and the questions around the Pentagon that never fully went away.</p><p>New episodes of &quot;9/11: Unanswered&quot; drop every Tuesday through September 28th. Patreon members get early access to every episode in the series plus the full, extended After Hours cut. www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcast</p>