DISCUSSIONS POST 9/11 - WHERE IS THE TRUTH FINALLY?

This talk on Sunday 12 September recounts some recent events attended and organised by the speaker: he discusses his participation in a conference on “Afghanistan, What Have We Learned 20 years later?“, organised by the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government (Belfer centre) and gives a version of who was speaking and his own responses, and thoughts about Afghanistan. Then he recounts his attendance at a similar event organised by Harvard University Kennedy School of Government (Belfer centre) on 9/11, looking back on the history of the past 20 years and what role intelligence played in both the run up to 9/11 and its aftermath. This academic conference included Philip Zellikow, who was Executive Director of the Bush Commission into 9/11, as well as senior CIA executives responsible for the response afterwards by the USA security state. Another speaker was Christopher Andrew, leading historian of British intelligence, who spoke about how all these troubles might have been avoided with preven