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The Long Fuse · Season One · Episode 7 · 35 min

Blinking Red

April to August 2001: the threat reporting grows so loud that, in the 9/11 Commission's words, "the system was blinking red." Episode 7 is the American side of that summer: the drumbeat of warnings, the reports that pointed overseas, the Phoenix memo, what the airlines were told, and a case opened in Minneapolis on August 15. The warnings were loud. Why did no one know where to look?

Disclaimer: a dramatization based on public records, including The 9/11 Commission Report, court filings and trial testimony. Some scenes and dialogue are reconstructed or composited. Voices are AI-generated and are not intended to resemble any real person. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any person or agency depicted. Allegations in court filings are unproven claims. No private victim is named beyond the public record, and people the Commission identified only by pseudonym keep those pseudonyms.