10 Things We Learned From Edward Snowden On Joe Rogan's Podcast

4. Snowden Believes 9/11 Could've Been Prevented

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That led neatly into the main meat of Snowden's appearance. The wonderfully mysterious world of conspiracy theories.

He believes 9/11 could've been prevented, or at least the number of deaths limited, had inter-agency silence inside the government not been caused by competitive spirit. Wait, what? Yep, Snowden is saying that the CIA, FBI and other offices were competing against each other to see who could take the credit for sorting the mess out before it had even concluded.

In other words, both agencies (and others) deliberately withheld information they could've sent to one another that would've helped the team effort. This is something Edward calls "stove piping", and he happens to think such restrictions are total bullsh*t. The government abandoned their procedures out of fear and arrogance.

By failing to properly transmit data between levels of the government hierarchy, everyone lost. 11 September 2001 was a particularly strange day in Snowden's life for other reasons too.

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