“Someone is going to die,” the counterterrorism agent wrote in a bitter email shortly after the 2001 encounter.
That astonishing account, and many others, are contained in a sworn declaration by Donald Canestraro, an investigator for the Office of Military Commissions, part of the Department of Defense’s Military Commissions Defense Organization. It is dated July 20, 2021.'
Just adding that it also allowed a whole new era of US intervention in other countries, all under the guise of "defeating the Axis of Evil". Manipulating a psychologically-broken public into thinking that any military activity must now be justified (and be beyond criticism), all in the name of stopping terrorism.