EFI·Evidence Fusion Initiative·The 11 September 2001 open case file
Visuals
Visuals
Photographs and diagrams you can actually see, documentaries ingested from their spoken transcripts, and the photo and video collections we hold as records but have not copied as files. U.S. government stills are public domain. One frame is used under CC BY 2.0, with the photographer named. Films are not treated as if this lab watched the pictures.
Each film was read from captions or a published transcript. Short quoted lines only. A live 2001 broadcast is scored as contemporaneous. Later documentaries, interviews and YouTube explainers are secondary media — they do not become a second NIST.
Live broadcast · 2001 · 2h 05m
BBC News 24 — live, 11 September 2001 (13:52–15:56 UK)
BBC News 24 (VHS recording of the live transmission)
How the day unfolded live on BBC News 24 from Television Centre, West London. Presenters John Terrett, John Nicolson, Valerie Sanderson, Jane Hill and Peter Dobby; Stephen Evans reporting from the World Trade Center lobby; Tony Blair at the TUC.
What we took. Live times, the sequence as London heard it, early wrong casualty figures, a retracted Palestinian claim, and Blair’s first statement. The tape’s own disclaimer: commentary contains inaccuracies because the news was still breaking.
What happened when the attacks hit the densest cluster of communication networks on the planet: Verizon’s West Street exchange, cell antennas on the Trade Center, and AT&T’s long-distance load.
What we took. Operator testimony that cell antennas sat on the Trade Center; Verizon lost service to more than 200,000 customers; AT&T completed a record 430 million calls that day.
WABC journalists who were in the streets, in the air, and in the newsroom. Photojournalist Glenn Mayrose: documenting it pays tribute to the people who did not survive.
What we took. That New York’s local newsroom treated the morning as a local breaker that became national, and that the station still holds original field tape from that day.
Michael Moore (official 20th-anniversary screening + Q&A)
Moore’s Palme d’Or film on Bush-family and Saudi ties, the bin Laden-family flights, the Patriot Act, and the Iraq war. Advocacy, not a laboratory test.
What we took. Moore’s own claims, filed as claims — including the bin Laden-family evacuation and the argument that Iraq was sold on a 9/11 link the film says was not there.
CIA Spy on 9/11 — John Kiriakou (Dalton Fischer Podcast, Part 2)
Dalton Fischer Podcast
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou on the morning of 11 September at Langley, Cofer Black’s 6 July 2001 briefing to visiting Middle East liaison officers, and the later enhanced-interrogation programme he blew the whistle on.
What we took. Kiriakou’s own words: Cofer Black said something terrible was coming, at a scale not seen before, using al-Qaeda code for a massive attack. They did not expect it on U.S. soil.
The 9/11 Files — Ep 1: The CIA’s Secret Mission Gone Wrong
Tucker Carlson Network
Mark Rossini, an FBI agent embedded at Alec Station, says a CIR to warn the FBI about Mihdhar was blocked. Carlson narrates a recruitment / false-flag reading that Rossini’s interview does not by itself prove.
What we took. Rossini’s blocked-CIR account (already paralleled in this library). Carlson’s ‘false-flag recruitment’ line is the host’s frame, stored separately from Rossini’s words.
A three-hour tour of heroism stories and the main theory families, from jet-fuel memes to WTC 7, ‘pull it’, the Pentagon, dancing Israelis, and bin Laden.
What we took. A catalogue, not a primary. Noto’s load-bearing line: flying an airliner into the towers at speed will destroy them; ‘jet fuel can’t melt steel’ is the wrong test. Explosions on the day, he says, were mostly fireballs, cars, and boiler rooms — not planted bombs.
Gerald Posner, author of Why America Slept, walks the 25th-anniversary theory list and argues incompetence, not an inside job.
What we took. Posner’s test: show how a conspiracy was done, not only that warnings were missed. He calls CIA–FBI non-sharing a failure to condemn, and ‘therefore they wanted it’ a jump the evidence does not make.
A tertiary animation of the morning’s clock, the national ground stop, Flight 93, and the later hunt for bin Laden.
What we took. A restatement of the public timeline (airspace shut at 09:45; south tower 09:59; Flight 93 at 10:03). Not an independent measurement. Kept so the watch-list is complete.
2025 tribute documentary (YouTube Movies / free upload)
Survivor stories of resilience. A commemorative picture, not a new primary of the attacks.
What we took. Catalogued as a watch-list film. No new instrument reading. Weight stays with the contemporaneous broadcasts and the named reports already on file.
