I have been sharing my comments and additional information about Tucker Carlson's video series "The 9/11 Files". I've now finished watching the whole series, and my final recommendation is that, yes, it is worth making time to watch.

• I covered episode one here: "How the CIA Deliberately Allowed Two 9/11 Hijackers Into the US".
• I covered episodes two and three here: "How the US Government Could Have Prevented the 9/11 Attacks".
• And I covered episode four, which I was particularly eager to see due to my own extensive research into the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, here: "WTC 7, Israeli Espionage, and 9/11 ‘Conspiracy Theories’".

The fifth and final episode is called "From Tragedy to Tyranny". Watch it here (also on Rumble):

This one mainly focuses on how 9/11 was used as a pretext to advance government totalitarianism and the neocons' agenda of overthrowing the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Key topics include:

• The passage of the so-called "PATRIOT Act", which effectively "legalized" government spying on American citizens in the name of cracking down on the threat of domestic terrorism.
• The CIA's use of "extraordinary rendition" and torture, including waterboarding, at secret "black sites" in numerous foreign countries.
• How most of what we "know" about the 9/11 plot was obtained through the torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh.
• How John Kiriakou, a whistleblower who exposed the CIA's torture program and featured guest of the episode, was the only person to be sent to prison in relation to the program's exposure.
• How the CIA engaged in a disinformation campaign about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to advance the regime change agenda.
• How the 9/11 attacks occurring despite a wealth of warnings and foreknowledge was attributed by the whitewash 9/11 Commission to a "failure of imagination".

Carlson concludes by saying there's a far greater story about 9/11 than we have been led to believe, and that it doesn't take a "conspiracy theorist" to see this.

I certainly agree.

Here are a few articles I wrote back in the day about the torture program:

• "The ‘Risk’ of Justice" (May 29, 2004)
• "The Selective Application of the Geneva Conventions" (June 9, 2004)
• "Disregarding International Humanitarian Law" (November 8, 2004)
• "Alberto Gonzales and the Rule of Lawlessness" (January 9, 2005)
• "Detainee Abuse" (July 5, 2008)
• "On Torture" (September 18, 2008)
• "Obama, American Ideals, and Torture as ‘a useful tool’" (April 21, 2009)
• "What Obama Isn’t Going to Change About Military Commissions" (May 29, 2009)
• "Iran’s Fascism, and Ours" (July 7, 2009)

To conclude my thoughts about Tucker Carlson's "The 9/11 Files", I have my quibbles about it:

• I don't like how Carlson presents some of the information in the series as though original investigative reporting when he's really relying on others' prior research and reporting without attribution. (See here.)
• I don't agree that extrajudicial assassination of Osama bin Laden is the right answer to the question of how the attacks could have been prevented. (See here.)
• He gets a few things wrong about the collapse of WTC 7. (See here.)

But all in all, I think it's a great series that provides a great summary overview of key issues, and I'm glad Tucker Carlson did it. So many younger people who were just kids back then or not even born yet have so little exposure to alternative viewpoints about 9/11. What Carlson has done is a great service to the cause of truth, bringing this information to his huge audience.

It was my own unanswered questions about 9/11 that got me started down the path that led me to doing independent journalism.

Before the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003, I was trying to warn people how the government was lying about Iraq having WMD and operational ties to Al Qaeda. And I called called a "conspiracy theorist" for it!

The moral imperative to combat the lies and deceptions serving to manufacture consent for criminal foreign policies is what led me to start writing and publishing articles online.

Here are collections of selected articles related to the 9/11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan, and the war on Iraq: