Philip Zelikow
Former Counselor of the United States Department of StateWikipedia
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Sep 23, 2026
Eyck FreymannGUEST
But The gray zone pressure is intensifying and it's accelerating from all directions at once.
Eyck FreymannGUEST
And if we play forward the tape, I think the way that it goes is towards something that Philip Zelikow and others have called a quarantine, where essentially China says Taiwan Island is subject to our customs control.
Eyck FreymannGUEST
Sure, you can come and go, but you have to do it pursuant to Chinese law, which is to say, if we don't want you coming and going, you don't go.
Eyck FreymannGUEST
So it's not cutting the supply of energy or food.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
There's another email in the Epstein files, which people have pointed out is just really weird, possibly just because of the timing, but we don't really know.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
The email between Gislaine and a guy named Philip Levine just says, where's the real pilot? Now, people have speculated that they're talking about the pilots from 9-11, because this email was sent on September 18th of 2001, just one week after the attacks.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
But Ghislaine was talking, allegedly, about a helicopter flight with a girl named Kelly that they made before they ended up getting drinks somewhere, whatever.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
So out of context, perhaps, could be code, perhaps, but it is interesting.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
And Philip Levine has a lot of mentions in the Epstein files, He even has his own accusations from one of Epstein's assistants for SA.
speaker_37CORRESPONDENT
In transcripts released Thursday, Kellen told lawmakers Levine forced himself on her at a house in St. Tropez.
speaker_37CORRESPONDENT
Epstein and Maxwell were in the house, but not present when the assault happened.
speaker_37CORRESPONDENT
when asked did mr epstein facilitate the abuse by philip levine kellen replied i don't know what he knew it was my first or second year working for them they rented a house in st tropez one summer and philip was good friends with gislaine and he came to stay with us in the house and geoffrey and gislaine had gone to bed and philip and i were still up Kellen later testified, there was me and Philip, and then there was like this wooden kind of shack on the beach, and just like grabbed my hand and pulled me into the shack, basically forced himself on me.
Coleen RowleyGUEST
We'll put our guy in charge, Kissinger.
Coleen RowleyGUEST
Then the second one is they put Zelikow in, who was best friends with Condi Rice.
Coleen RowleyGUEST
There's a book written about how the 9-11 Commission ended up, if you want to be nice about it, milk toasting a lot of things.
Coleen RowleyGUEST
And it was because Zelikow was the writer.
Coleen RowleyGUEST
He was the main writer.
Coleen RowleyGUEST
They covered up all the Saudi.
Coleen RowleyGUEST
And the Saudi involvement is key.
Coleen RowleyGUEST
It doesn't come out until like maybe 17, 18 years later because the families finally get information about this.
speaker_1HOST
American energy, the key to success in the digital revolution.
speaker_1HOST
What can America do to triumph in the AI revolution the way it once triumphed in the industrial age? The decisive factor, not just semiconductors or software, is American energy, argues senior fellow Philip Zelikow in this new video.
speaker_1HOST
The United States must capitalize on its energy superpower status, abundant fuels, next-gen nuclear, and a developing bipartisan will to build, before rival nations like China determine who will power the age of AI.
speaker_0HOST
Do social norms substitute for enforcement? Evidence from public officials' home purchases in Singapore.
Pamela BrowneGUEST
So, um, So it says 12 years after this memo was written, it was declassified by President Obama on July 8th, 2015 in something called Executive Order 13526.
Pamela BrowneGUEST
Described here, the memo was written to the 9-11 Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow, Deputy Executive Director.
Pamela BrowneGUEST
Director Chris Combe, I think he pronounced it K-O-J-M, and General Counsel Dan Marcus from the Joint Congressional Inquiry and the 9-11 Commission Investigator Dana Lessman and Counsel Michael Jacobson.
Pamela BrowneGUEST
The subject was updated work plans and the detailed list of associates.
Kit KlarenbergGUEST
Um, you know, there was this existing theoretical framework.
Kit KlarenbergGUEST
You know, a lot of senior officials, including, um, uh, Philip Zelikow, who was a, a confidant of Condoleezza Rice and was also the head of the, uh, the 9/11 Commission, had been talking a lot about, A, the threat of, uh, t- uh, of major terrorist attacks, including stuff like attacks on the, the World Trade Center.
Kit KlarenbergGUEST
Interestingly, Zelikow wrote about that in 1998.
Kit KlarenbergGUEST
Um, uh, and talking, uh, but not only talking about the threat of terror, but also talking about the necessity of some kind of US counterattack to this, which would involve, uh, you know, d- uh, uh, boots on the ground wars in, in far-flung theaters in the Arab and Muslim world.
Dylan BunnellHOST
And then you should read probably Philip Shannon's The Commission, which is subtitled The Uncensored History of the 9-11 Investigation.
Dylan BunnellHOST
Shannon digs into the politics inside the commission itself and talks about things like questioning whether executive director Philip Zelikow's previous connections to the members of the Bush administration should have given him the right to run this commission, and he and others dispute the implication that those relationships compromise the investigation, and that's good, but I think you should read that disagreement and that side of the story, too.
Dylan BunnellHOST
I mean, it's worth considering, is this guy who had direct ties to the president's administration be the one that's in charge of running this commission that you know i don't know it you can really start going down the the hole there if you allow yourself and i hope maybe you do sometimes maybe it's too much i don't know but if you want to move further if that interests you and i'm reading off book titles here and and you want to get more in the uh tinfoil hat section of the bookstore there's a guy named david ray griffin who wrote the 9-11 commission report omissions and distortions and and he argues in that book that the commission ignored or even mishandled important evidence even though they claimed they weren't handled and i wouldn't necessarily read his like scripture that's kind of the whole point of this episode You should read the commission, read the commission report, and read about the people who ran it, but then also read mainstream investigative journalists who criticized it.
Dylan BunnellHOST
And then you just figure out where everybody agrees and where they don't agree.
Terry StradaGUEST
It shocked me when I saw it.
Terry StradaGUEST
It has been uncovered by an investigative reporter that Philip Zelikow, who was the commissioner, um, the executive, uh, on the commission, he flew over to Riyadh and he had a meeting in Riyadh where they explicitly told him to go easy on the Omar al-Bayoumi part.
Terry StradaGUEST
Do not report all that you know about him.
Terry StradaGUEST
Keep it quiet.
LionelHOST
At number 800-848-9222, 25 years ago today, or yesterday, well, actually yesterday, it was something else.
LionelHOST
Philip Zelikow.
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Remember him? Remember him?
LionelHOST
The criticisms of Philip Zelikow.
LionelHOST
These are not based on vague 9-11 conspiracy literature.
LionelHOST
Many of the criticisms involve documented relationships and decisions that created legitimate questions, real questions about whether this executive director of the investigation was sufficiently and independently equipped to from the administration being investigated.
LionelHOST
People say, Bush was deeply involved in this story.
LionelHOST
How do you know that? How do you know that? There was afterwards, it was with Zelikow and others, and there was weird reaction.
LionelHOST
But see, how do you know this? You see, One of the things that people do, and they were doing it then, is that your suspicion turns into fact.
LionelHOST
Like, you know, this looks funny.
35 MINS LATER
LionelHOST
No.
LionelHOST
That was odd.
LionelHOST
Zelikow, who was in charge of the 9-11 committee, Kane and Hamilton.
LionelHOST
It's a joke.
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