‘The McVeigh Tapes’ — Imagine Hearing the 9/11 Plotters on MSNBC

On Monday, the 15-year anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, Rachel Maddow  ran a two hour “exclusive” detailing the actions of Timothy McVeigh on MSNBC. Using 45 hours of audio of McVeigh describing in his own voice his actions to Lou Michel, co-author of the McVeigh biography, American Terrorist, Rachel Maddow prefaced each monologue by McVeigh with an unfeeling narration.

Imagine watching MSNBC on September 11th this year and seeing the lives of each of the terrorists who plotted and participated in 9/11 played out in front of you, complete with dramatic cinematography and brilliant editing with an accompanying narrative by Rachel Maddow. Imagine listening to Khalid al-Mihdhar list the intricate details of how he planned every step of the process, his thoughts upon entering pilot school, reflecting on his foreshadowing thoughts of how he wasn’t really interested in landing portion of the course. Imagine if you listened to a tape of Marwan al-Shehhi say with total callousness, being completely devoid of feeling and vocal fluctuation, “The victims need to get over it. You’re not the first mom to lose a son and you’re not the first grandparents to lose grandchildren… I was going for a high ‘body count’ – the technical term.”

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