The events of the fateful day, the iconic image of the smoke billowing from the collapsing Twin Towers and the sound of family's crying as they watched the ashes falling from the sky all united in grief they wondered if their loved ones had made it. The pair met with filmmaker Alex Gibney, who had already adapted Wright's one-man show, My Trip to Al-Qaeda and book Going Clear for HBO. Im Profil von Martin Schmidt sind 6 Jobs angegeben. Due to the secrecy agreement he signed as an employee of the CIA, the book is based solely on unclassified intelligence or material available from open sources such as media reports. ONeills outlandishness is counterbalanced by Tahar Rahim as Ali Soufan, a Muslim Lebanese-American FBI agent on ONeills I-49 counterterrorism squad, who eventually becomes his protege. [5] In December 2013 and January 2014, Scheuer was criticized for seeming to advise American citizens to seriously consider assassinating U.S. President Barack Obama. Early discussions among the producers have begun; their concept revolves around the birth of the Muslim Brotherhood.[5]. relations from the University of Manitoba in 1986. This guy truly believes he was right, Daniels told Variety . Schmidt, by contrast, is a pompous, sneering creep whose primary motivation seems to be power. Later in 2004, shortly after the "outing" of Scheuer's harsh criticism of America's close alliance with Israel, Scheuer resigned from his position at the CIA. You know, my family was shocked. Schmidt, who earned his BS in electrical engineering at RPI in 1981, will assume its presidency on July 1, 2022. "[47], Scheuer referred to Kyle Rittenhouse, who was charged with murder for shooting people demonstrating in George Floyd protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin a young hero, hoping that Rittenhouses necessary, patriotic, and constitutional actions will power the formation of militias across the United States.[46] In July 2020, he wrote that loyal Americans know their domestic enemies, as well as their locations, in detail, and will be able to act swiftly to eliminate them and the threat they pose.[46], In March 2018, Scheuer claimed that the European Union was in the process of "falling apart", saying that British Prime Minister Theresa May was "siding with the EU" during the future relation talks of the UK leaving the European Union. To Scheuer, Osama bin Laden's "beliefs, goals, and intentions" were, carefully chosen, plainly spoken, and precise. The FBI officers switch off the television, throw on their coats and head to the nearest watering hole, where the camera lingers for a moment on another TV set with 24-hour news: in May 1998, US audiences are still blissfully uninterested in the story that would define the new millennium, and are utterly devoted to shots of Monica Lewinsky entering buildings. He'd been so close to the truth, some information had come from his Yemen suspect, some came from the news he had of a secret meeting attended by the two Cole plotters, Nawaf Alhazmi, and Khalid Almidhar. The latest is The Looming Tower, the gripping new 10-part Hulu series adapted from Lawrence Wrights Pulitzer Prizewinning 2006 book about the origins of 9/11. "What's interesting is whether that was part of his plan or not. But where the book focused primarily on the people who conspired to orchestrate the worst terrorist attack on American soil, the series reorients itself around the people who failed to stop them. In the series, the CIA is represented by the composite character Schmidt who hates O'Neill, but the feeling is mutual. (If both characters seem somewhat implausible, it appears that theyve been tamped down for television, if anything.) What Lobby? Martin Schmidt ( Peter Sarsgaard) Peter Sarsgaard, The Looming Tower JoJo Whilden, Hulu Schmidt is a composite character who Futterman says represents the point of view within the CIA of. Also, as much of the story that takes place in the United States occurs in offices, practical sets were built, including Alec Station and the FBI office in New York. Though he's named after Futterman's uncle, he's most directly based on Michael Scheuer, who, like Schmidt, led the CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station, aka Alec Station -- the unit dedicated to tracking bin Laden -- and clashed with John O'Neill on how to deal with the threat of Al-Qaeda. "[41] His overall view is that the interests of U.S. foreign policy are far better served by the current status quo, whereby the existing autocratic regimes are better able to suppress the threat he perceives from Al-Qaeda incursion than Western-style democratic systems. They soon landed on screenwriter Dan Futterman after one meeting, and then decided to work on their pitch for the series. In 2017, the third most-read page on Wikipedia.org was an article on Queen Elizabeth. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. He resigned from the CIA in 2004 after being outed as the anonymous author of the book Imperial Hubris, which criticized the United States' approach to the War on Terror. Michael Scheuer is a 63-year-old former CIA official who back in the 1990s was Alfreda's boss. Yet, despite the news, O'Neill's message still didn't get through to the higher ups. What John ONeill was trying to do was get a momentum going in the FBI to look seriously for those cells,says Richard Clarke in The Man Who Knew, a documentary about O'Neill. But no one would listen to him.. FBI agent Bob Chesney is the most composited of The Looming Tower's main characters. O'Neill wanted in on the war on terror, but he had some red flags on his record. [28] The series premiered on March 1, 2018, in the United Kingdom and subsequent episodes were released weekly for the following seven weeks,[29] The series began airing weekly on April 26, 2019, on BBC Two, with catch-up availability on iPlayer. Something went wrong, please try again later. He argues that the instability in the Iraq War has benefited Al-Qaeda without serving any U.S. interests. "[33], Scheuer has stated that the Mearsheimer and Walt paper The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is essentially correct. [3] After refining their pitch, they approached HBO, Netflix and Amazon with the project. Tenet was the CIA director under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. Bikowsky thwarted cooperation between the FBI and the CIA before 9/11, and after becoming chief of Alec Station was deeply involved in the rendition and torture of terror suspects. In Marching Toward Hell, Scheuer laments "the war in Iraq that was instigated by U.S. citizen Israel-firsters and their evangelical Christian allies". He states that Clinton had eight to ten opportunities to kill bin Laden prior to September 11, and Bush had one opportunity thereafter. A CIA agent named Michael Anne Casey prevented Rossini from passing along information on two Al-Qaeda members with US visas. A formal inquiry was launched and there was a rumour the new boss wasn't keen on O'Neill. The series stars an ensemble cast featuring Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp, Louis Cancelmi, Virginia Kull, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Peter Sarsgaard. T he former senior CIA official once in charge of the hunt for Osama bin Laden has spent the summer calling for the slaughter of his fellow Americans. In the premiere, set in 1998, they obtain a laptop that has information about Bin Laden's plans but don't share it with O'Neill. Scheuer has been critical of the Clinton and Bush administrations for not having killed bin Laden, for costly and disastrous policy missteps, and for not taking decisive measures to defend the country. Schmidt guards CIA intelligence with fanaticism, while ONeill resorts to spewing profanities and epithets when he cant get what he wants. [49], Scheuer has called for the public execution of European politicians, saying that "all European rulers are tyrants" adding that "they are a despicable bunch, the people that head the European Union, and they really deserve to be hung. The job he took? [19], On February 13, 2018, The Washington Post held a screening of the first episode. He left the CIA in 2004. 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[43], On December 23, 2013, Scheuer endorsed the extrajudicial killing of then-Prime Minister of Britain David Cameron and President Barack Obama,[44][45] endorsing the view of Algernon Sidney that "by an established law among the most virtuous nations, every man might kill a tyrant; and no names are recorded in history with more honor, than of those who did it. He and his team have spent a lifetime chasing Al Qaeda. [10] In February 2017, Michael Stuhlbarg and Bill Camp were announced as series regulars and cast as Richard Clarke and Robert Chesney, respectively. The 10-episode drama series was created and executive produced by Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, and Wright. But while Schmidt wants the president to respond by carpet-bombing Afghanistan, ONeill argues that this will only draw more followers to the cause. The book and the show have hundreds of characters, and the big challenge of Futterman's in adapting the book was to figure out which characters and storylines to follow and how to condense them. ONeill might be a womanizing boor but his devotion to his joband to thwarting attacks on the U.S.is unmistakable. Jeff Daniels FBI special agent John ONeill is pitted against his counterpart at the CIA, analyst Martin Schmidt, played by a terrific Peter Sarsgaard, who uses the same brittle nerves of his put-upon editor Charles Lane in 2003s journalism drama Shattered Glass. Weve been in the trenches. "In the summer of 1998, Martin Schmidt headed Alec Station, the CIA unit that looked after bin Laden. 13, Princess Margaret at No. (If Daniels falters, its in persuasively selling some of ONeills cruder remarks.) When it comes to the 9/11 attacks we all know the story. "And he said, 'I just - I sense a shift, and I think things are going to happen.' [4], During pre-production, producers spent months doing exhaustive homework. DEGGANS: Peter Sarsgaard is equally compelling as Martin Schmidt, the head of the CIA's al-Qaida unit. Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, various members of O'Neill's squad try to get in contact with him. [6] In September 2014, in addition to earlier "praise" received from Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State issued a press release quoting Scheuer in order to appeal to an American audience. According to bin Laden, "If you want to understand what's going on and if you would like to get to know some of the reasons for your losing the war against us, then read the book of Michael Scheuer in this regard. (modern), here is a shot, 12 minutes into Hulu and Amazons new series The Looming Tower, that serves as the shows first real jaw-dropper but its so brief that if you blink, you miss it. O'Neill went on to investigate the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia. [5], On December 19, 2017, Hulu released the first preview of the series through a collection of images and a "first-look" video featuring interviews with the cast and crew. It follows members of the I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in Washington, D.C., the counter-terrorism divisions of the FBI and CIA, respectively, as they travel the world fighting for ownership of information while seemingly working toward the same goal trying to prevent an imminent attack on U.S. "[5], The series began filming on May 3, 2017 in New York City[16] and it was expected that shooting would take place in a number of locations around the world. 37, and Prince Philip at No. It was announced that the limited series would consist of ten episodes and premiere in 2017. The director of the FBI at the time, we learn later, was enjoying his own holiday from history: Louis Freeh slept through the Bin Laden interview and had his mobile phone turned off. [16], After being cast as the late ONeill, Jeff Daniels struggled on how to approach playing the role. [5] Futterman has mentioned that in addition to adapting Wright's book, the series also drew from Soufan's book The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda and the 9/11 Commission Report. He cooperated with the FBI's Al Qaeda investigation and is currently serving a life sentence at the ADX Florence federal supermax prison for his role in the bombing. "[1][2] Osama bin Laden acknowledged the book in a 2007 statement, suggesting that it revealed "the reasons for your losing the war against us". In his book, Scheuer depicted bin Laden as a rational actor who was fighting to weaken the United States by weakening its economy, rather than merely combating and killing Americans. James Woolsey, CIA director from 1993-1995, previously said: "We now know that [Yousef] was planning an operation to crash a dozen American airliners virtually simultaneously with bombs. "[33] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 74 out of 100 based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews. Following the screening, journalist David Ignatius moderated a question-and-answer session with Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Wrenn Schmidt, Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright, and Ali Soufan. The seven subsequent episodes will premiere on Wednesdays. The Looming Tower is an American television miniseries, based on Lawrence Wright's 2006 book of the same name, which premiered on Hulu on February 28, 2018. [3] Education Schmidt earned his BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1981 and PhD from MIT in 1988. The Looming Tower, based on Lawrence Wrights Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 book of the same title, carries the familiar garb of Homeland-era spy dramas terrorist cells in Middle Eastern countries plotting attacks while US intelligence services nervously pace down office corridors and draw up spider diagrams to catch up with their schemes but its mission is journalistic. "I thought, wow, he didnt get bin Laden; bin Laden got him," Wright said when the series was first released. Michael Scheuer calls Black Lives Matter a. The FBI is supposed to go out and arrest people and put them on trial. Johannesburg, South Africa served as the production base, and was where the bulk of filming took place. Scheuer believes that, irrespective of NATO ostensibly leading the bombing operations, "in the Muslim world, this is Americans killing Muslims again, and it looks like it's for oil. He also served as Special Advisor to the Chief of Alec Station from September 2001 to November 2004. The story leans on O'Neill's side, after all, he'd been advocating for a deeper investigation into Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda group. Buy new: $800 $3.99 delivery October 20 - 25. Peter Saarsgard as Martin Schmidt in The Looming Tower. 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Similar to Schmidt, she believes the CIA is uniquely positioned to combat terrorist attacks and therefore decides to conceal information from the FBI. "[37], Thomas Joscelyn of Weekly Standard wrote a critical piece on Scheuer and an interview Scheuer did on Hardball with Chris Matthews. [16] He is now known to have been the anonymous author of both the 2004 book Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror and the earlier anonymous work Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America. Richard Clarke said: "On at least one occasion, John told me that he believed that the Saudis were telling us one thing but doing another and that he tried to persuade the director of the FBI of that, but the director wanted to believe that the Saudis were cooperating.". Both shows adaptation of historic events into modern entertainment had prompted millions of viewers to find out whether what theyd seen on TV had actually happened. [9], In January 2017, it was announced that Tahar Rahim was cast in one of the series' lead roles as Ali Soufan. [11] In March 2017, Jeff Daniels was cast as John ONeill. [6], In September 2016, Hulu ordered The Looming Tower to series from Legendary Television with executive producers including Alex Gibney, Dan Futterman, and Lawrence Wright. Scheuer also likes Trump's "America First" talk towards American statecraft. David Smith in Washington. O'Neill was a real and flawed figure, while Schmidt is a merging of different players in the story. He also was randomly shouted out in a Kanye West song once. But the story really begins when O'Neill began to study the roots of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing after assisting in the capture of Ramzi Yousef, the leader of that plot. They realized that only after they looked at the results of the investigation of the millennium bombing plot. The Looming Tower, Hulu's limited series adaptation of Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the rise of Al-Qaeda in the years before 9/11 and the FBI and the CIA's failure to work together to prevent that attack, premiered its first three episodes Feb. 28. ONeill was a real person; Schmidt is reportedly an amalgam, although there are reasons beyond his initials to deduce whom hes based on. In real life, O'Neill had warned the higher-ups about what was to come, but it fell on deaf ears. This is a guide to provide some context as to who the myriad people you'll meet throughout The Looming Tower are, and which of the major characters are real and which are creations, as well as who they are in the historical record that the show can't fully contextualize and where they are now. Schmidt's parents Dave Lindgren and Michele Newman were high school sweethearts, and broke up months prior to Schmidt's birth. [2] In his 20 years he'd chased down a lot of bad guys, from white-collar crime to drug rings, but he'd never come across something like this before. He soon learned all about al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, identified by an early CIA report as an "Islamic extremist financier". At a time when the US intelligence community has been pitted against the US president, the observation that the FBI has allowed itself to be distracted from its true goals sounds awkwardly familiar. Maisel' Top Winners", "Casting Society of America's Artios Awards: 'Green Book,' 'Vice' Among Winners", "WGA Awards TV Nominations: 'The Handmaid's Tale', 'Barry', 'SNL' Make List", "International Press Academy Announces Nominees for 23rd Annual Satellite Awards", Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. 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He's the gritty cop who hates bureaucracy. All rights reserved. Soufan was born in Lebanon and joined the FBI in 1997. All of which urges the questionwhat do we gain from so many shows urging a new reckoning with not-so-old history? O'Neill is a swearing, drinking and overspending womanizer whose passion and abrasiveness makes him an effective anti-terrorism fighter. [8] Ultimately, five different directors were chosen to helm the series' ten episodes: Zisk, Michael Slovis, John Dahl, Ali Selim and Alex Gibney. Michael Scheuer was very critical of him for his cautiousness in dealing with bin Laden before 9/11. But most of what it portrays is true, and all of it seems intended to spur a new engagement with its material, seen through the clearer lens of historical distance. Following that partnership, the team began to interview potential showrunners. This sudden surge of interest in the British royal family wasnt just Anglophilia: It was also related to the popularity of Peter Morgans Netflix show The Crown and the PBS/ITV drama Victoria. While The Looming Tower takes some artistic licence, changing some characters, it mostly portrays the actual events. [5] The funding threats were pursuant to his criticism of Barack Obama's "dancing the Tel Aviv two-step" in allegedly kowtowing to the Israeli lobby, as well as Scheuer's disdaining of Obama's selection as Chief of Staff of Rahm Emanuel, "a U.S. citizen who during the 1991 Gulf War left America to serve in Israel's military. Jenny Paul as Maureen, a CIA analyst working in Alec Station. "[20], In 2009, Scheuer reported that he had lost his position as a Senior Fellow with the Jamestown Foundation, after "several major financial donors to Jamestown threatened to withdraw funding" if he continued in that role. [24], In a videotape released around September 7, 2007, Osama bin Laden stated, "If you want to understand what's going on and if you would like to get to know some of the reasons for your losing the war against us, then read the book of Michael Scheuer."[3]. The FBI was just starting to work as an international agency, and that was part of their problem with the CIA, who felt that was their turf, and the FBIs turf was America, said showrunner Dan Futterman at the shows premiere at the Berlin film festival. Did it trouble the shows makers? "[1], The project emanated from Ali Soufan and Lawrence Wright's realization that both of them were fielding offers from various studios and production companies regarding the rights to their books about the lead-up to the September 11 terrorist attacks. U.S. support for Israel that keeps Palestinians in the Israelis' thrall. The set includes four behind-the-scenes featurettes and audio commentaries on the premiere and finale episodes. The U.S. is faced with an insurgency, rather than mere terrorism. The website's critical consensus reads, "Well-acted and powerfully written, The Looming Tower delivers gripping counter-terrorism drama rendered even more soberingly effective through its roots in real-life events. The series opens by revealing how much O'Neill and Martin Schmidt (Peter Sarsgaard), the head of the CIA's Al-Qaeda unit, . Its mission seems to be simply dramatizing what happened, based on Wrights 600 interviews and the (limited) information thats emerged since his book was published. He repeatedly warned of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, but he was not listened to as closely as he should have been. As the squad fights to get information out of the CIA, the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed. [25] It details how the 2003 Iraq War has affected Al-Qaeda and the United States. If you doubt this, keep in mind the name Rahm Emanuel. Whatever was out there was actually in his apartment. [7] It was later reported that Craig Zisk was also an executive producer for the series and would be directing as well. [9], Production designer Lester Cohen credits Wright's and Gibney's list of contacts and the production's research team for allowing him to gather the material needed to recreate various settings. Mr. Clarke never mentions that President Bush had no chances to kill bin Laden before September 11 and leaves readers with the false impression that he, Mr. Clinton and Mr. Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, did their best to end the bin Laden threat. Martin Arnold Schmidt (born January 1960) is the 19th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. "Ali Soufan was watching the first three episodes and he called me afterwards and said, 'Okay, Bob Chesney is at least four people,'" says Futterman. O'Neill became even more focused, obsessed even, haunted by the spectre of bin Laden. 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