Cenk delves deeper into Kurt Eichenwald’s New York Times investigation on the CIA briefings that warned of terrorist attacks in the months leading up to 9/11. According to Eichenwald, the Pentagon declared bin Laden’s threats to be an attempt to distract the American government from Iraq, which they saw as the real threat. “Because they’re obsessed,” Cenk says. “They gotta go to Iraq. That’s what they came to do, start a war with Iraq. Who cares who’s actually gonna be a threat to us?”
