The 9/11 Conversation We Never Heard | Scott Horton

Link to full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTNBhMZz2Ao Scott Horton revisits one of the strangest and most controversial side stories from September 11: the Israeli men reportedly seen filming the attacks and reacting with excitement before being detained. Danny asks about the story, and Horton separates the most sensational versions from the details he says were reported by outlets like ABC and The Washington Post. The clip centers on the so-called high fivers, the witness account from a nearby apartment, and the question of why men Horton identifies as Mossad-linked would have been filming the World Trade Center that morning. Horton does not treat every rumor as proven. Instead, he walks through what he thinks is plausible, what still deserves scrutiny, and why the timing matters if any witnesses were correct about when the men arrived. The conversation then turns to Benjamin Netanyahu's reported comments after 9/11. Horton recalls a New York Times exchange from September 12, 2001 in which Netanyahu was asked what the attacks meant for America's relationship with Israel. Horton frames the answer as revealing because it treated America's tragedy as a strategic alignment moment: the idea that America's enemies and Israel's enemies would now be seen as the same. The clip also shows why Horton is comfortable sitting with ambiguity. He does not need every rumor to be true for the episode to be important. The publicly reported parts are already strange enough: men detained after filming, disputed witness timing, intelligence questions, and a foreign leader describing the attack's strategic effect almost immediately. The point is not to close the case in twelve minutes. It is to explain why this corner of the 9/11 story never stopped bothering researchers. Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ_piSR8gm-TfHZcDWOJciA?sub_confirmation=1