Ray Nowosielski is a non-fiction storyteller across media with much experience. Co-chair of the Documentary Producers Alliance’s Crediting sub-committee, a decade of productions with two-time Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple taught him how to produce documentaries with excellence, culminating in 2023 with AppleTV production The Super Models and Max production Gumbo Coalition. He contributed as director & producer for season 3 of VICE on HBO, which was nominated for a PrimeTime Emmy, and as episode producer for Morgan Spurlock’s Webby-winning docu-series We the Economy. As consulting producer, Ray collaborated with Oscar-winner Alex Gibney and Pulitzer-winner Lawrence Wright on the pilot for Amazon’s docu-series adaptation of journalism institution The New Yorker. He produced the Netflix Johnny Cash documentary Tricky Dick & the Man in Black and co-produced HISTORY’s Desert One, each nominated for News & Doc Emmys. His work in “true crime” includes producing Investigation Discovery’s Murder in Mansfield and co-creating/hosting iHeartMedia #BlackLivesMatter podcast After the Uprising, seeing him nominated for the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Podcast. As a journalist, his work has been published by The Nation NowThis News, Salon, Newsweek, TalkHouse, Fortune, The Intercept, Truthout and Gawker, and Skyhorse Publishing released the 2018 “war on terror” exposé book he co-authored, The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark. His latest iHeartMedia podcast, George Bailey Was Never Born, looks at America’s love affair with holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life. He is co-founder of Double Asterisk and True Stories with Ruth Vaca, his spouse. They co-host the semi-weekly Everybody Has a Podcast with Ruth & Ray. John F. Duffy studied film at Columbia College Chicago, where he had big dreams of writing and directing Hollywood films. By the time he graduated, he had fallen in love with literary fiction. For the next twenty years, Duffy found himself carving a very unusual life path that took him from Chicago to Phoenix, Ann Arbor to Austin, eventually landing him in Bloomington, Indiana. Across that time Duffy worked on documentary films, made skate videos, spent a year couch surfing, got sober, engaged with environmental activism, waited more tables than he’d like to remember, published a non-fiction book, created podcasts, had a daughter, built a cabin in the woods, and fell in love with combat sports. Currently, Duffy works as a writer and producer of podcasts and documentary films. He regularly writes works of short fiction, and in 2022 he completed his debut novel, “A Ballroom for Ghost Dancing,” which was the recipient of numerous awards and honors. His follow-up novel, “Where When It Rains, “ will be available on December 3rd, 2024, from Picket Fire Press. When he isn’t writing, Duffy can be found sipping coffee with his wife, hanging out with his daughter, or further deforming his ears at the nearest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gym.
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Episode 379
Ray Nowosielski & John Duffy
What Really Happened on 9/11? | Ray Nowosielski & John Duffy
Ray Nowosielski is a non-fiction storyteller across media with much experience. Co-chair of the Documentary Producers Alliance’s Crediting sub-committee, a decade of productions with two-time Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple taught him how to produce documentaries with excellence, culminating in 2023 with AppleTV production The Super Models and Max production Gumbo Coalition. He contributed as director & producer for season 3 of VICE on HBO, which was nominated for a PrimeTime Emmy, and as episode producer for Morgan Spurlock’s Webby-winning docu-series We the Economy. As consulting producer, Ray collaborated with Oscar-winner Alex Gibney and Pulitzer-winner Lawrence Wright on the pilot for Amazon’s docu-series adaptation of journalism institution The New Yorker. He produced the Netflix Johnny Cash documentary Tricky Dick & the Man in Black and co-produced HISTORY’s Desert One, each nominated for News & Doc Emmys. His work in “true crime” includes producing Investigation Discovery’s Murder in Mansfield and co-creating/hosting iHeartMedia #BlackLivesMatter podcast After the Uprising, seeing him nominated for the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Podcast. As a journalist, his work has been published by The Nation NowThis News, Salon, Newsweek, TalkHouse, Fortune, The Intercept, Truthout and Gawker, and Skyhorse Publishing released the 2018 “war on terror” exposé book he co-authored, The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark. His latest iHeartMedia podcast, George Bailey Was Never Born, looks at America’s love affair with holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life. He is co-founder of Double Asterisk and True Stories with Ruth Vaca, his spouse. They co-host the semi-weekly Everybody Has a Podcast with Ruth & Ray. John F. Duffy studied film at Columbia College Chicago, where he had big dreams of writing and directing Hollywood films. By the time he graduated, he had fallen in love with literary fiction. For the next twenty years, Duffy found himself carving a very unusual life path that took him from Chicago to Phoenix, Ann Arbor to Austin, eventually landing him in Bloomington, Indiana. Across that time Duffy worked on documentary films, made skate videos, spent a year couch surfing, got sober, engaged with environmental activism, waited more tables than he’d like to remember, published a non-fiction book, created podcasts, had a daughter, built a cabin in the woods, and fell in love with combat sports. Currently, Duffy works as a writer and producer of podcasts and documentary films. He regularly writes works of short fiction, and in 2022 he completed his debut novel, “A Ballroom for Ghost Dancing,” which was the recipient of numerous awards and honors. His follow-up novel, “Where When It Rains, “ will be available on December 3rd, 2024, from Picket Fire Press. When he isn’t writing, Duffy can be found sipping coffee with his wife, hanging out with his daughter, or further deforming his ears at the nearest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gym.
In Episode 379 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy, the authors of The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark, a book that investigates the troubling story behind the 9/11 attacks and the War on Terror.
The first hour includes a discussion about the timeline of events leading up to the 9/11 attacks, the critical meeting in Malaysia monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies in which the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole and 9/11 were organized, the CIA’s failure to provide critical information about that meeting, including the names of two hijackers who entered the United States shortly thereafter to the FBI and the White House, and what we know conclusively about the role played by agents of the Saudi government in aiding some of the 9/11 hijackers in their mission to kill thousands of Americans.
In the second hour, the discussion focuses on the summer of 2001 and three critical meetings that took place at the White House, where material information about terrorist cells operating inside the United States appears to have been withheld by the CIA, the sharing of which, according to the then counter-terrorism advisor on the National Security Council Richard Clarke, would almost certainly have prevented the attacks of September 11th. Demetri, Ray, and John discuss what the CIA was aware of that summer, its possible role in trying to infiltrate Al-Qaeda and Wahhabi extremist networks in the U.S. by working through Saudi agents, and the evidence that some or all of these activities, along with the roles played by Saudi Intelligence and members of the Royal Family were covered up in the months and years afterward.
This is a seminal period in American history whose consequences, including the unchecked power of the national security state, the growth of mass surveillance, and the loss of confidence and trust in American leadership, we continue to live with to this very day. Coming to a deeper understanding of these critical events and their aftermath is crucial if we hope to reform our republic and steer this country in a direction that protects our constitutional rights and is more consistent with our beliefs and democratic values.
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Ray Nowosielski is a non-fiction storyteller across media with much experience. Co-chair of the Documentary Producers Alliance’s Crediting sub-committee, a decade of productions with two-time Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple taught him how to produce documentaries with excellence, culminating in 2023 with AppleTV production The Super Models and Max production Gumbo Coalition. He contributed as director & producer for season 3 of VICE on HBO, which was nominated for a PrimeTime Emmy, and as episode producer for Morgan Spurlock’s Webby-winning docu-series We the Economy. As consulting producer, Ray collaborated with Oscar-winner Alex Gibney and Pulitzer-winner Lawrence Wright on the pilot for Amazon’s docu-series adaptation of journalism institution The New Yorker. He produced the Netflix Johnny Cash documentary Tricky Dick & the Man in Black and co-produced HISTORY’s Desert One, each nominated for News & Doc Emmys. His work in “true crime” includes producing Investigation Discovery’s Murder in Mansfield and co-creating/hosting iHeartMedia #BlackLivesMatter podcast After the Uprising, seeing him nominated for the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Podcast. As a journalist, his work has been published by The Nation NowThis News, Salon, Newsweek, TalkHouse, Fortune, The Intercept, Truthout and Gawker, and Skyhorse Publishing released the 2018 “war on terror” exposé book he co-authored, The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark. His latest iHeartMedia podcast, George Bailey Was Never Born, looks at America’s love affair with holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life. He is co-founder of Double Asterisk and True Stories with Ruth Vaca, his spouse. They co-host the semi-weekly Everybody Has a Podcast with Ruth & Ray.
John F. Duffy studied film at Columbia College Chicago, where he had big dreams of writing and directing Hollywood films. By the time he graduated, he had fallen in love with literary fiction. For the next twenty years, Duffy found himself carving a very unusual life path that took him from Chicago to Phoenix, Ann Arbor to Austin, eventually landing him in Bloomington, Indiana. Across that time Duffy worked on documentary films, made skate videos, spent a year couch surfing, got sober, engaged with environmental activism, waited more tables than he’d like to remember, published a non-fiction book, created podcasts, had a daughter, built a cabin in the woods, and fell in love with combat sports. Currently, Duffy works as a writer and producer of podcasts and documentary films. He regularly writes works of short fiction, and in 2022 he completed his debut novel, “A Ballroom for Ghost Dancing,” which was the recipient of numerous awards and honors. His follow-up novel, “Where When It Rains, “ will be available on December 3rd, 2024, from Picket Fire Press. When he isn’t writing, Duffy can be found sipping coffee with his wife, hanging out with his daughter, or further deforming his ears at the nearest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gym.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
