A transcript from the frontline series, The Man Who Knew:
JERRY HAUER, Dir. Emergency Mgmt. NYC ’96-’00: The night before he died, he had said to me, “We’re due, and we’re due for something big.”
NARRATOR: His name was John O’Neill. And long before the world knew about Osama bin Laden, FBI agent O’Neill was obsessed with him.
TEDDY LEB: He was among the first people to see the bin Laden threat.
NARRATOR: He warned of Al Qaeda.
TEDDY LEB: He said that we’re at war with these people.
NARRATOR: He warned of the threat to the United States.
TEDDY LEB: And we better not take them for granted because they are here to hurt us.
NARRATOR: But people at FBI headquarters thought John O’Neill was too much of a maverick and they stopped listening to him.
JOE CANTAMESSA, FBI Special Agent NYC: You could be flagged as a problem, and your career could pretty much be over.
NARRATOR: Last summer, O’Neill left the FBI and took a new job as head of security at the World Trade Center.
JOE CANTAMESSA: Of all the places to go to work, and of all the ways that you could lose your life.
NARRATOR: Tonight FRONTLINE investigates the internal power struggle at the heart of the FBI’s failure on September 11th.
It is interesting to go back over all of these stories now, with the knowledge of Cabal’s existence. And it is mind-blowing how many good American patriots have been killed by this thing.
I watched this show, and what struck me about it was John O’Neill was among the FBI’s best spooks, who spent a lifetime deploying against, and defeating the best the other side had to offer. But even he could not fathom what was out there. He seemed to have a subconscious assumption that within the security community, everyone was allied against the same enemy, even if minor political squabbles could happen.
All throughout the show, you could see the hidden hand of a complex intelligence operation targeting him. Little things went wrong, political snafus cropped up out of nowhere. It culminated at a security conference filled with American security professionals, when he had to take a phone call and stepped outside. He assumed he could step away from his briefcase for a moment in a room full of US government security professionals, because anyone who wanted to serve the US in the War on Terror had to be noble. He came back in, and his briefcase was gone. He had brought some classified materials home to work on something, left them in the briefcase, and they were lost. Which meant he had to report the loss, and that was it for his career.
Imagine being another American Security professional, at the top of your game because you were invited to that conference. You can steal a briefcase belonging to a high ranking counter-intelligence agent from the FBI, maybe with nothing in it, and risk being caught and exiled from that elite community. Would you do it? John O’Neill thought like that and assumed his briefcase should be safe.
I’d assume the reality is the call was a pretext by a Cabal asset to get him to leave the room, and hopefully leave his briefcase behind. There was probably another person outside talking on a phone, and reporting to the team inside whether he was coming back. Inside, Cabal probably got five or ten of their own field operatives invited to the conference, and they surrounded O’Neill in the seats, without him ever knowing. When he left, they all rose, surrounded his briefcase, one grabbed it, and booked out another door.
If he was under the kind of surveillance he was probably under, they knew he was working on classified documents at home, they knew they would be in the briefcase, and they knew this would end his career. If you are anywhere in the security apparatus, and you are a simple patriot, trust me when I say, you are not paranoid enough. They are everywhere – especially where you are because your kind is a threat to them.
Once O’Neill was out, James Kalstrom pulled strings and got him a job as head of security at the World Trade Center, where he would die on 9/11. I liked Kalstrom, particularly for his defense of Trump. But you have to wonder if larger forces organized the job offer, knowing O’Neill would be at the towers when they came down. Could somebody have even killed him on 9/11 right after the planes hit, and left the body in the towers on 9/11? Could Kalstrom have been told to offer him that job by a superior in Cabal, or did it pop up through engineering, and Kalstrom was clean of Cabal and unwittingly used?
In the business of Cabal you never know with anyone, and it seems as if everything lately is coming back to Cabal.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because nobody is paranoid enough
After Kallstrom’s bogus garbage of Flt. 800, I would trust noting about the man.
Period.
I can sympathize, because he has family. When that crew shows up and begins spouting orders, it is very tough to resist the orders, even with an entire FBI field office behind you. And I would imagine the consequences at his level were literally a heart attack for him, and maybe his wife, or just let things go the way they were going to go anyway.
It is possible he did the best he could, or he could be Cabal. I need more info.
But you are right. Flt 800 was a Cabal op and he was in a critical place for it, so you could never trust him.
This is why I read you. This is how I have shifted my thinking to see the reality of LE.
The punchline is that the cabal was hoping that he wouldn’t report the loss.
Shit, you are probably right.
I’m relieved that your posting confirms my instinct in directing young computer technology students to go into security, but unnerved with the dark sinister world I’ve inadvertently steered them into in the pursuit of secure employment.
I assume it can be dangerous now, if you see the wrong thing and think the wrong way. But there is a good chance it may be fine in a year or two.
Either way, it pays to tell people they should operate as if there is a dark conspiracy operating in the world.