The Terrifying 9/11 Excuse & the Dark Israel Plot Nobody Touched | Scott Horton

FULL EPISODE: https://youtu.be/ON6hz-HvjE8 Subscribe Here: @JulianDoreyDaily SCOTT's LINKS: X: https://x.com/scotthortonshow YT: https://www.youtube.com/@scotthortonshow PROVOKED: https://www.youtube.com/@Provoked_Show/videos SUBSTACK: https://scotthortonshow.com/ WEBSITE: https://scotthorton.org/ BOOKS: https://amzn.to/3T9Qg7y Antiwar.com: https://antiwar.com/ --- Scott Horton — author of Enough Already and Fool's Errand, editor of Antiwar.com, and one of the most rigorously sourced critics of American foreign policy alive — sits down with Julian Dorey for the most comprehensive and most honestly documented conversation about the Iraq War, the 9/11 intelligence failure, and the historical precedents for manufactured war in the series. This episode covers the Clean Break document, the Office of Special Plans, the cooked intelligence, the Cheney versus Powell dynamic, the Bojinka plot, the FISA warrant failures, and the FDR Pearl Harbor debate — tied to a single documented argument: the Iraq War was not a mistake. It was a plan. The Clean Break document is the episode's most important historical starting point. Written in 1996 by American neoconservatives including Richard Perle and Douglas Feith as a policy paper for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, A Clean Break laid out a regional destabilization strategy centered on removing Saddam Hussein — not primarily as an American strategic objective but as an Israeli one. When the same authors entered the Bush administration in 2001 — Feith as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Perle as chair of the Defense Policy Board — the Clean Break framework was operationalized. The Office of Special Plans was the instrument through which the intelligence community was pressured to produce assessments supporting a predetermined conclusion. The cooked intelligence thread is the episode's most documented and most damning contribution. Horton walks through exactly how the Office of Special Plans functioned as a parallel intelligence operation designed to find, amplify, and when necessary fabricate connections between Saddam and al-Qaeda that the CIA and DIA had repeatedly concluded did not exist. The Cheney versus Powell dynamic is essential — Powell's UN presentation used intelligence his own chief of staff later called a blot on his record. Cheney drove the process. Powell delivered the product. And the American public consumed the result. The 9/11 and Bojinka threads add the intelligence failure dimension. The Bojinka plot — a 1995 al-Qaeda plan to destroy a dozen American airliners — was known to American intelligence. FISA warrants that could have identified the 9/11 hijackers before the attack were applied for and denied. The intelligence existed. The prevention was possible. And the failure provided political cover for a war planned years before anyone knew about al-Qaeda's American operation. The FDR Pearl Harbor and WWII revisionism thread closes the episode with the most historically contested segment. Horton examines documented evidence that FDR had advance knowledge of Japanese intentions — and that Churchill's manipulation of American public opinion created conditions for a conflict that was not quite the straightforward power over evil story that WWII mythology presents. **Inside This Clip:** - The Clean Break document written for Netanyahu in 1996 and its direct connection to the Iraq War blueprint - How the same Clean Break authors became Iraq War architects from inside the Bush administration - The Office of Special Plans and how it produced intelligence supporting a predetermined conclusion - Specific examples of cooked or fabricated intelligence used to justify the invasion - Why Saddam's actual threat level bore no resemblance to what the administration presented This is the Iraq War and the history of manufactured American conflict examined with the sourcing and intellectual honesty that only Scott Horton can bring. --- ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Iraq & Israel, Iran Destabilization & Clean Break Exposed 10:49 - Saddam Lies, Oil Motive & Cheney vs Powell 18:23 - Saddam's Real Threat, 9/11 Excuse & GW Justifications 31:52 - Rebuilding America's Defenses, Bojinka Plot & 9/11 Missed Prevention 46:05 - Freedom Fighters vs Terrorists & the Pearl Harbor Debate 55:33 - WWII Revisionism, Power Over Evil & FDR Treason Claim @JulianDoreyDaily ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices