The Looming Tower, an excellent new show streaming on Amazon Prime Video, recounts the calamitous bureaucratic wrangles between American federal agencies that prevented them from acting on intelligence that a major terror attack had been planned on American soil on September 11, 2001.
The show is headlined by the formidable team of Lawrence Wright, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on which the series is based; Dan Futterman, the writer of such Oscar-nominated screenplays as Capote and Foxcatcher; and Alex Gibney, the documentarian whose films on the Enron scandal and Scientology have earned critical acclaim.
The show combines archival footage — grainy
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