The Darkened Hour
The Darkened Hour will host interviews with the leading experts in their fields relating to the September 11th 2001 attacks. Content will also expand to fields relating to said event with invigorating, rational discussions monthly. We will also cover Middle East History, the history of the Intelligence Community (foreign & domestic), U.S-Israel-Saudi geo-politics, and the psychological characteristics of those involved with terrorism and the political sphere.This is an educational and information based show that subscribe to primary source documentation, personal experiences of those involved and also some speculative ideas. We hope to invigorate younger minds to become louder voices for...
Episodes
An Interview With Thomas Drake (Former NSA Senior Executive & Whistleblower Of Waste & Fraud At NSA)
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…
Post 9/11 Terrorism Resurgence: Our Foreign Policy Helps Create The Fundamentalist Threat
In this episode i speak on the current US foreign policy framework and how the terrorist networks such as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Taliban in Afghanistan, are working with other Arab fundamentalist organizations to coordinate a…
A Vulgar Betrayal Of FBI Agent Robert Wright Jr.: How The Agency Maligned It's Own
Robert Wright Jr. was a former FBI counter-terrorism agent out of the Chicago Field Office who once spearheaded an intricate investigation into suspected money laundering of terrorist groups by Islamic relief charities, code named "Vulgar B…
Malfeasance,, Conspiracy & Coverup: How Were The 9/11 Attacks Successful
In this episode i talk about the raw intelligence and data that the US intelligence services had which could had prevented the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, from being an operational success. But because of internal grievances, mal…
An Interview With Mark Rossini (The US Embassy Bombings & The Congressional Investigation That Never Was)
Mark Rossini, served as an FBI representative to the CIA’s Counter-terrorist Center (CTC) at CIA Headquarters and he was one of the founding executives of the National Counter-terrorism Center (NCTC). He was then situated in the 1997 NYC jo…
The CIA & Omar Abdel Rahman: Terrorism Conjoined
In this episode i cover the initial entry of a known radical cleric from the Egyptian fundamentalist group, Gamma Islamiyyah, Omar Abdel Rahman, into the United States. Also known as the "Blind Sheikh" due to the effects of blindness from a…
The FBI's PENTTBOM Investigation Into The Israeli Nationals Of September 11th 2001
In this episode, i read from the various files from the FBI's Newark office and their 9/11 investigation code named "PENTTBOM", which involved an investigation of the Israeli nationals who were operating out of moving companies such as Urba…
Investigating Torture & White House War Powers: The FBI's & CIA's Final Conclusions
In the aftermath of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), along with the Department of Defense (DoD), began the process of perusing the terrorists and their…
An Interview With Sarah Adams & Guido (Al Qaeda 2.0: The Upcoming Attack On The United States & Europe Unveiled)
With us today is "Guido" and Sarah Adams. Guido, of course is a cover name, for he is an undercover operative. After 9/11 he found himself in a Mossad safehouse, where he uncovered a critical internal leak within the Dutch intelligence agen…
Planning Terrorism: The 2000 Al Qaeda Meeting In Malaysia
In December 1999, NSA analysts working on a covert signals intelligence operation on an Al Qaeda network hub in Sana'a , Yemen, pick up an important phone call from Malaysia. The caller tells someone by the name of "Khalid", to tell the two…
An Interview With Richard Kammen (Tortured Justice: Guantanamo Bay)
Richard Kammen is a criminal defense lawyer with his office in Indianapolis, Indiana. He concentrates his practice in serious felonies, white-collar defense, complex crimes and death penalty defense. He is of Counsel to the law firm of Kamm…
An Interview With Alka Pradhan (Lawyer For 9/11 Defendant Ammar al-Baluchi)
Alka Pradhan is an American human rights attorney who has represented Guantanamo Bay detainees, civilian drone strike victims, and other torture victims. She currently works for the U.S. Department of Defense, Military Commissions Defense O…
New Evidence For Saudi Government's Alleged Involvement With Two 9/11 Hijackers While Inside The United States
According to breaking reports from 60 Minutes and Florida Bulldog, video footage shot by a Saudi government employee, Omar al-Bayoumi, which was obtained by news outlets shows a group of men driving around a neighborhood and sometimes point…
An Interview With Seth Hettena (The CIA, FBI & The Guantanamo Defendants Charged For The 9/11 Attacks)
Seth Hettena is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a freelance journalist. He reports on politics, organized crime, and international affairs. From 1997-2006, Hettena was a reporter and correspondent at The Associated Press in Detro…
An Illicit Confession: The Capture, Rendition & Torture Of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
In this episode, i talk about the capture and eventual torture of the man alleged to have operated and planned the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Mohammed was captured while hiding in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on …
An Interview With Cole Bunzel (Wahhabism: The History Of A Militant Islamic Movement)
Cole M. Bunzel is a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian and Arabist, he studies the history and contemporary affairs of the Islamic Middle East, with a particular focus on violent Islamism and the Arabian Peni…
The 9/11 Congressional Inquiries: A Comprehensive Breakdown
In this episode, i conduct a detailed report on the two 9/11 congressional investigations, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9/11 Commission and the The Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Co…
Guantanamo Bay Prison: Where Truth Goes To Die
After the terrorist events of September 11th 2001, the Bush White House, led by its legal counsel, drafted memorandums that would not only infringe on the rights of detained foreign prisoners, but also deny them any protections afforded to …
9/11: The Unscripted History Past & Present
In this special episode of the Darkened Hour, i bring a very laid back attitude and offer some personal and direct thoughts on multiple facets of the 9/11 attacks before and after that i never entertained before! The conversation centers on…
An Interview With Ray Holcomb (Endless Enemies: Inside FBI Counterterrorism)
Ray Holcomb has over 30 years’ experience as a law enforcement and intelligence officer. He served for 23 years as an FBI Special Agent; 8 as a Strategic Planner with the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC); and 4 as a state Homeland Se…
1996 Afghanistan: The Taliban, Bin Laden & The Intelligence Community
In this episode, i cover the period of Afghanistan between, 1992-1996, and the Taliban's war against the Northern Alliance while giving refuge to Osama Bin Laden, and Al Qaeda which became a brewing cesspool that would later shape the Middl…
9/11 Special Edition Collab With Sean Russell
With the eve of the 22nd anniversary of the SEptember 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States coming up Monday, myself and 9/11 researcher and co-host of the "Beyond Ground Zero" podcast, Sean Russell talk about various topics rela…
An Interview With Tom Parker (Avoiding The Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism)
Tom Parker is the Project Coordinator for Counterterrorism Programming in Nigeria at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). He is also the author of “Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terro…
An Interview With Michael Scheuer (CIA Chief Of Bin Laden Issue Station)
Michael Scheuer is the former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit. He resigned from CIA in November 2004 after nearly two decades of experience in covert action and National Security issues related to Afghanistan, South Asia, and the Middle Ea…
An Interview With Mansoor Adaiyfi (Former Guantanamo Prisoner & Author Of ’Don’t Forget Us Here’)
Mansoor Adayfi born in Sanaa'Yemen was held without charge in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba from February 9, 2002, to July 11, 2016. On July 11, 2016, he and a Tajikistani captive were transferred to Serbia. His G…
An Interview With Brett Eagleson (9/11 Justice)
Brett Eagleson is the son of the late John Bruce Eagleson who worked for Westfield Management Corp. on the 17th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center whom perished on September 11th 2001. Brett Eagleson is currently the CEO of …
An Interview with Carol Hellermann (The Attempted Hijacking Of American Airlines Flight 1)
Carol Hellermann is a former American Airlines flight attendant for Flight 1 in which 3 arab men who argued about not having to fly on September 11th 2001 when the flight could not take off due to a ground stop. Meanwhile 4 days after 9/11,…
Bin Laden Declares War: The 1998 US Embassy Bombings In Kenya & Tanzania
In this episode, i talk about the motivations behind the US embassy attacks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, which were authorized by two islandic fundamentalist groups, Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden and the Egyptian Islamic…
An Interview With Anthony Shaffer (Operation Encore & The Canestraro Documents)
Anthony Shaffer is the President of the London Center for Policy Research, a New York Times bestselling author and CIA trained intelligence operations officer with 35 years of experience in global and national security. In his think-tank wo…
An Interview With Elizabeth Miller (September 11th Families For Peaceful Tomorrows)
Elizabeth L. Miller is the Project Director for September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a nonprofit 9/11 family member organization that promotes peace. Miller earned an MA in Middle Eastern Studies (2020) at the CUNY Graduate Cente…
Genesis Of The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing (War Against The United States) (Part 2)
We continue off of Part 1 of the episode, as NYPD and the NY-JTTF investigate the assassination of Jewish radical firebrand, Rabbi Meri Kahane at a downtown Manhattan hotel. His killer? El Sayyid Nosair, who also has ties to a radical cleri…
Genesis Of The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing (Birth Of Jihad) (Part 1)
In this episode, i will be giving a very lengthy and quite descriptive talk about what led up to, and what took place, on February 26th 1993, which was the bombing of the World Trade Center. Speaking from various sources, all of which i wil…
An Interview With Richard Rotanz (FDNY Captain And OEM Deputy Commissioner)
President and CEO Richard (Richie) Rotanz has over 45 years of experience and expertise in the fire service, emergency management, operations, research, training and academia. His eclectic career has had him functioned as program manager in…
An Interview With Ray Nowosielski & John F. Duffy (The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark)
Ray Nowosielski is an Emmy-nominated non-fiction filmmaker, producer, and writer. Nowosielski worked on many successful projects, one in which he personally directed, 9/11 Press For Truth" where the film surrounds the lives and activism of …
An Interview With Sean Russell & Darin Harvey (Beyond Ground Zero)
In todays episode i invite Sean Russell and Darin Harvey, two geopolitical 9/11 researchers, writers and online activists who have created a newly formed podcast which delves into the various histories involved with the September 11th 2001 …
An Interview With Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Guantanamo Diary)
Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini was born in Rosso, Mauritania, the ninth of twelve children of a camel herder. His family moved to the capital of Nouakchott when he was a child, where he excelled in school and earned a scholarship to study el…
The Gerald Shea Memorandum: An Israeli Intelligence Sting Involving The Monitoring Of 9/11 Hijackers And Associates
In todays episode, i go over the near obscure written memorandum from retired corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea, who also once the District Attorney for San Luis Obispo County, California from 1998 to 2013. Shea had penned an extensive memo for…
What Did They Know? The NSA Signals Intelligence Operation Of Osama Bin Laden & Al Qaeda Network
The comprehensive report detailing the National Security Agency (NSA) and their signals intelligence operation of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. This operation allegedly began in 1991-1992, that extended up until and even after the terrorist…
An Interview With Dave DeCamp (The Yemen Crisis)
Dave DeCamp is the News editor of of Antiwar.com and Host of "Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp". In today's episode, Richard Cox and myself join Dave DeCamp to talk about the current crisis in Yemen. How the war started, the terrorist Al Qaeda…
A US Government Standstill: How The September 11th Terrorist Attacks Were Successful
As American Airlines Flight 11 steered directly into the World Trade Center's North Tower, the response by mostly everyone watching or hearing about it was unsurprising, many were in shock and in a state of paralysis. As United Airlines Fli…