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Fabled Enemies
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Fabled Enemies

102 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Jason Bermas's film sets aside the physical-anomaly debates that dominate other 9/11 documentaries and points its camera at intelligence agencies instead. It opens with footage of Osama bin Laden being named the sole culprit within hours of the attacks, then works backward through the hijackers' training records, several of which trace to U.S. military facilities, and through the FBI's own prior contact with men who would later fly the planes. Michael Springman, a former State Department visa officer in Jeddah, describes issuing visas to men he believed were not legitimate travelers. Former NYPD detective Bo Dietl, ex-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, WTC7 survivor Barry Jennings, and Senator Joe Biden appear on camera describing roadblocks, bureaucratic silence, or details that never made it into the official account. The film's throughline is institutional: agents who wanted to keep pursuing bin Laden's financial network before 2001 and were blocked from doing so. It does not offer a finished alternative narrative, just a case for reopening the question of who knew what, and when.