The Darkened Hour
The Darkened Hour
Podcast Description
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 truth and justice in the hopes of persuading our government officials to once again look into these terrible terrorist attacks with the new information and classified data.
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Explores themes including the history of the Intelligence Community, U.S-Israel-Saudi geopolitics, Middle East history, and psychological aspects of terrorism, with episodes that include detailed discussions on the failures of the FBI and CIA, and interviews focusing on specific incidents such as the East Africa embassy bombings and the PENTTBOM investigation.
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 truth and justice in the hopes of persuading our government officials to once again look into these terrible terrorist attacks with the new information and classified data.
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 Specialist, with fluency in German, and went on ELINT (electronic intelligence) missions. While at NSA he became a senior-executive holding top security clearance and later he blew the whistle on multi-billion fraud, loss of intelligence, wrongdoing and a secret dragnet electronic surveillance and data mining program conducted on a vast scale by the NSA after 9/11. The name of the program was called Trailblazer. This program violated and subverted the Constitution as well as individual sovereignty and privacy, while weakening national security and fundamentally eroding civil liberties.
In April 2010 he was charged by the US Department of Justice with a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment facing 35 years in prison, until the government’s case against him collapsed in June 2011. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to “plea bargain with the truth”. He eventually pleaded to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth Telling while also awarded the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award and the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award.
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