Ben Howard is an independent researcher. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and daughter. You can follow Ben on Twitter: @housetrotter. Howard has been an ardent, often anonymous, 9/11 and geopolitical writer and student. Just last year he would so-author a 3 part series entitled "The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11" along with Aaron Good and Peter Dale Scott. In this episode, Ben and i discuss the NSA monitor of Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, the Yemen Hub, CIA operations involving surveillance of the Yemen Hub, the high level terrorist summit in Malaysia, the intentional withholding of pertinent information from the FBI concerning al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi entry into the United States while possessing US Visas, the CIA "phishing" the FBI in 2001 concerning al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, Richard Blee and Tom Wilshire's roles in the coverup and hoarding of information. This is part 1 of a series concerning the domestic and foreign intelligence involvement with Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, along with the greater geopolitical goals involved.

The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11:

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/09/11/the-twenty-year-shadow-of-9-11-u-s-complicity-in-the-terror-spectacle-and-the-urgent-need-to-end-it/
American Exception: Empire and the Deep State:

https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510769137/american-exception/