Triple Cross

Peter Lance talked about his book Triple Cross: How Bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI (Harper Paperba… read more

Peter Lance talked about his book Triple Cross: How Bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI (Harper Paperbacks; June 16, 2009). He talked about the events leading up to the September 11, 2001, attacks, focusing on failures in acting on intelligence and on Ali Mohamed, an al Qaeda double agent who was able to penetrate the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the U.S. military before being brought to justice in the late 1990s. He argued that before September 11, the war on terrorism was largely a legal war, focusing on prosecutions and freezing assets. Mr. Lance, who criticized the performance of then Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in his book Triple Cross: How bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI--and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him (William Morrow; September 5, 2006), also discussed Mr. Fitzgerald’s threats to sue Mr. Lance and his publisher HarperCol close

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Program ID:
288073-1
Category:
Public Affairs Event
Format:
Speech
Location:
Santa Barbara, California, United States
First Aired:
Aug 01, 2009 | 11:01am EDT | C-SPAN 2
Last Aired:
Sep 06, 2009 | 4:05am EDT | C-SPAN 2

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  • Aug 01, 2009 | 11:01am EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Aug 01, 2009 | 8:00pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Aug 13, 2009 | 9:01pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Aug 14, 2009 | 4:44am EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Sep 05, 2009 | 1:59pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Sep 06, 2009 | 4:05am EDT | C-SPAN 2
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