A Live Discussion: Bin Laden Issue Station (Alec Station)

A video i made on October 31,2021. In this live video discussion, i go over the history of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) virtual station located in Maryland, the Bin Laden Issue Station. Which was was a standalone unit of the Central Intelligence Agency in operation from 1996 to 2005 dedicated to tracking Osama bin Laden and his associates, both before and after the 9/11 attacks that involved many members of domestic agencies in data collection. CIA Director, George Tenet ,later described the Station's mission as "to track [bin Laden], collect intelligence on him, run operations against him, disrupt his finances, and warn policymakers about his activities and intentions". During the years 1999-2001 however, numerous employees of the station intentionally with-held critical information about two Al Qaeda subjects, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who were being tracked from Yemen until their arrival into the United States, from the FBI. Both men would later become involved with the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77 which crashed into the Pentagon on September 11th 2001.