The Long Fuse - Trailer - transcript

[00:02] Host: August sixth, two thousand one. The President's Daily Brief carried a title that became infamous.

[00:10] Commission: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US."

[00:13] Host: That summer, the Commission wrote, the system was blinking red. The warnings were loud. They pointed overseas.

[00:24] Host: In Langley, an analyst found a cable that had sat unread for seventeen months.

[00:31] Analyst: Seventeen months. Sitting in the traffic.

[00:36] Host: In Minneapolis, agents held a laptop they were not allowed to open.

[00:41] Agent: We have it. We still can't open it.

[00:44] Host: But the fuse was lit long before that summer. In a college town in Colorado — nineteen forty-nine. Overseas — in the mountains of Afghanistan. And later — in a garage under the World Trade Center.

[01:00] Radio: Priority traffic. All stations.

[01:02] Host: This is the story of how the plot was built — and how close the people trying to stop it came. Nobody's side. Dramatized from the public record.

[01:14] Host: From Will Sigmon Media. The Long Fuse. Season One — wherever you get podcasts.