“For me, the lesson of this series is that divided we fall,” Wright says. Wright wryly notes that “The Looming Tower” miniseries doesn’t “have a surprise ending.”īut he adds, “We’re trying to explain why it went the direction it did and the moments when things might have turned out differently.” That was right in the middle of the presidential campaign, and not a single question about terrorism was posed in the presidential debates.
Cole bombing in Yemen, and 19 American sailors were killed. “And in October of 2000, there was the U.S.S. “Just look at the massive amount of grief that was caused, and it made little impression in the U.S.,” Wright says. Embassy bombings” in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people, with about 150 more people blinded by flying glass. “Yet we had been under attack since 1998, with the U.S. “For most Americans, 9/11 came out of the blue,” Wright says. But it’s also important to note that many of Wright’s conclusions in his much more comprehensive book have been backed up by revelations since publication. It’s important to note that the CIA refused numerous requests from Wright to discuss the agency’s reasoning for withholding information from the FBI. The Schmidt character is a composite, representing several people at the CIA, but he’s a thinly disguised version of Michael Scheuer, the director of the agency’s Alec Station counterterrorism unit.
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