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Witnesses testified before the Senate Environment Subcommittee about environmental conditions in lower Manhattan following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Environmental Protection Agencies (EPA) responses to the attacks in the days and weeks that followed, and lessons learned for future emergency preparedness. (6-20-2007)

Vice President Dick Cheney spoke about combating terrorism and other topical issues. (11-17-2006)

Two groups representing family members of 9/11 victims talked with reporters about the intelligence reorganization legislation now in a House-Senate conference committee. Lafuente, Molinaro and Burlingame represented a group of family members that supports the House version of the bill. It includes immigration provisions. The rest of the participants spoke in support of the Senate version of the bill which excludes immigration provisions. They answered reporters' questions. (10-27-2004)

Small edit feature with interviews with members of the FDNY whom talk about Engine 34, Ladder 21/Battalion 9 which lost every firefighter they sent to the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001.

Large river barges are seen transporting WTC debris to Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island for inspection.

Philippines investigator, Rodolfo Mendoza, shows investigation of Bojinka trans-Atlantic bombing plot of airliners to reporter. This plot would later become the blueprint for the attacks of September 11th 2001. Mendoza states that this information about airliners being a target for radical fundamentalist in 1996 but did not act on it.

US President, George W. Bush phones New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, in the immediate hours of the 91/1 attacks in the city. He offers encouragement and justice to the perpetrators while a media throng is assembled before him.

A video shot in February 2001 shows Ziad Samir Jarrah a suspect in the New York terrorist attacks, dancing at a wedding party in Beirut.

Al Jazeera international journalist, Yosri Fouda, details his experience interviewing the two alleged 9/11 masterminds and planners while travelling to Pakistan. Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and Ramzi Bin al-Shibh who were hiding out in an Al Qaeda safe house in Karachi describe to Fouda the "planes operation" of September 11th 2001 and why they did it.

Edited clips from the National Commission Of The Terrorist Attacks on September 11th and the poor response from our national air defense (NORAD). Clips showing General Ralph Eberhart and Richard Myers after commission shows time line during the attacks and NORAD's lack of response.

Witnesses testified about the Bush Administration’s detention and interrogation program for prisoners and enemy combatants. This was the first hearing on the topic since the release of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel’s (OLC) memos on the subject which authorized techniques many analysts considered torture. (5-13-2009)

Edited video news clips showing the damage port side hull of the USS Cole which was a victim of a martyrdom bombing plot by two men in a small motor boat vehicle on October 12th 2000. Former President Clinton Secretary of State Williams Cohen speaks at the end.

Testimonials from various FBI and CIA officials, including Cofer Black and Louis Freeh, during the 9/11 Commission.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair addresses the crowd at the Trades Union Congress regarding the terrorist attacks happening in New York City and Washington DC.

After the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, federal investigators as well as US intelligence had become aware of a name which had ties to the hijackers involved. His name is Marmoun Darkazanli, a Syrian born businessman who owns, Darkazanli Export-Import Sonderposten, in Hamburg Germany. Thruought the 1990's, the German federal intelligence BFV had begun monitoring and opening a case against Darkazanli for money laundering. They believe he was funneling money to the militant terrorist group, Al Qaeda, to which they also believed he was a part of since the early 1990's. Darkaznali also had ties to many important Al Qaeda contacts such as Mamdouh Mahmud Salim and Mohammed Haydar Zammar. Both Darkaznali and zammar would frequent a mosque in Hamburg called Al Quds. Here at the mosque they would also begin relationships with Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who would also become involved with the 9/11 attacks allegedly. The CIA tries to recruit Darkaznali as a spy in 1993 and again in 1996. He rebuffs them. However, the German domestic intelligence agency, LFV, tries to persuade him to also become a spy. But it is alleged he refuses their services. But does he? Knowing that he had financial ties to the 9/11 hijackers and Al Qaeda, knowing he is also belonging to Al Qaeda, the German federal government does not try and bring a case against him. One has to question, why? Currently, Darkazanli is under sanction, as affiliate or supporter of al-Qaida, by the United Nations.

On June 21st 1993, then US President, Bill Clinton, signed Presidential Directive 39. This order would allow the United States to forcibly extract anyone suspected of "terrorism" towards the U.S, by any means necessary and without approval of the host country they lived in. Under the direction of the CIA's director, George Tenet, the counter-terrorism unit was formed, and over the years preceding 2001, the rendition program would expand. After the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, US President George W. Bush, would allow John C. Yoo and Jay S. Bybee, two senior officials in the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, to legalize the use of torture as a means of extracting information from suspects labeled as "terrorists" by the CIA. The rendition and torture program would continue under US President Obama, by using more discreet methods of using commercial airplanes and having CIA "black sites" operating in over 54 countries until a senate committee report uncovered the systematic abuses by the CIA, which forced Obama to finally end the rendition-torture program in 2009 under Executive Order 13491.

On September 16, 2007, 5 men from Blackwater (a private military contractor) drove thru Nisour Square in Baghdad, Iraq when suddenly they fired upon Iraqi citizens and police killing 14 people and wounding 20. An independant Iraqi commission as well as a Federal Bureau of Investigation report found that the Blackwater guards fired without cause and with malicious intent to injure and kill. Those involved in the shooting Donald Ball, Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten, and Paul Slough faced multiple counts of manslaughter, and on June 17, 2014 four of the men would be found guilty of voluntary and attempted manslaughter charges, and of using a machine gun to commit a violent crime. They were sentenced to decades in prison with Slough facing life. However on December 22, 2020, US President Donald Trump would grant a full presidential pardons to Slatten, Slough, Liberty, and Heard.

Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, addresses a throng of media about the inference that Saudi Arabia had funded certain operatives inside the United States pre-9/11 which funded two Al Qaeda operatives, also inside the United States, who were involved with the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77.

Aftermath of the bombing of a US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. With short interviews of people injured in the bombing. The bombing was credited to Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda operatives, including Mohammed Sadeek Odeh and Mohammed Rashed Daoud al-Owhali.

On October 7th 2001, the United States invades Afghanistan in response to the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. Al Qaeda top leaders address the invasion in a video recording to US media. Suleman Abu Ghaith, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama Bin Laden.

US President George W. Bush makes various comments before he and Vice President Dick Cheney are scheduled to appear before the commission. Various critiques are made towards Bush in regards to controlling the commission's line of questioning.

First responders and Pentagon employees on scene tending to the injured on the lawn and inside the Pentagon building in the aftermath of American Airlines Flight 77 impact on September 11th 2001.

Edited news report of the capture and arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed while he was secretly housed in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on March 1, 2003. Those involved in his arrest were the Pakistani ISI, possibly in a joint action with the CIA's Special Activities Division paramilitary operatives and officers of the American Diplomatic Security Service.

Edited clip from the Department of State briefing "Patterns of Global Terrorism: 2003". Cofer Black, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (CIA), speaks to reporters about the dangers of certain groups like Al Qaeda.

New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani and Us Senators Hillary Clinton and others visit the aftermath of Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan.