During the Ottoman and British reign in mandated Saudi lands and Israel, it was the United States government with direct sponsorship from European Jewry and the prospect of billions in oil dollars waiting in the Southern Arabian land is where poignant decisions were made. Back the influence of Theodore Hertzl and King Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman Al Saud. Both of these men were to formally lead their countries with the sole backing of not Britain but of the United States. Within a short amount of time, turmoil and sectarian violence led the way to the future destabilization of the Middle East, and ramifications "unforeseen" that would terrorize the world over, most specifically the United States with the 9/11 attacks. This episode will detail the brief history of how that happened.

Robbyn Swan has co-authored three bestselling books. The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 & Osama bin Laden, was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History and won the prestigious Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. Swan contributes to Vanity Fair and has written for The Daily Telegraph, Salon, The Observer, The Daily Beast, MSNBC, The Irish Times, The Sunday Independent [Ireland], the London Independent, Defense News, and The National Journal.

She and her husband, Anthony Summers have both contributed a large number of articles for Florida Bulldog and Dan Christensen regarding the 9/11 attacks and the CIA-Saudi roles that played in the attacks themselves. Today we will talk about how she and Summers began their careers, the motivation on writing the book, her articles on Florida Bulldog and more.

Florida Bulldog Website: https://www.floridabulldog.org/ The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden: https://www.amazon.com/Eleventh-Day-Full-Story-11/dp/0812978099

Thomas Drake is a former senior executive with the National Security Agency, a United States Air Force and Navy veteran, computer software expert, and whistleblower. During his career at the Air Force, Drake was an Airborne Voice Processing Specialist, with fluency in German, and went on ELINT (electronic intelligence) missions. While at NSA he became a senior-executive holding top security clearance and later he blew the whistle on multi-billion fraud, loss of intelligence, wrongdoing and a secret dragnet electronic surveillance and data mining program conducted on a vast scale by the NSA after 9/11. The name of the program was called Trailblazer. This program violated and subverted the Constitution as well as individual sovereignty and privacy, while weakening national security and fundamentally eroding civil liberties.

In April 2010 he was charged by the US Department of Justice with a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment facing 35 years in prison, until the government's case against him collapsed in June 2011. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth". He eventually pleaded to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth Telling while also awarded the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award and the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award.