How a Montana Mom Became the FBI's Secret Weapon Against Al Qaeda🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 145: Shannen
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The terror attacks on September 11, 2001 changed everyone's life, around the world. But for Shannen Rossmiller, a judge in rural Montana, understanding how it happened and who would do such a thing became an obsession. Despite the danger to her life and family, she went undercover in extremist online forums and assumed the identity of multiple Arabic-speaking men to lure the architects of future attacks into a brilliant trap.
But that's only the beginning of Shannen's heroic and nerve-wracking crusade for justice.
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Oh hallelujah! Thank you for coming back, Jack! My Thursday morning is finally complete again!
@durellmwakulo4793
Ай бұрын
Mine too
the military and FBI really screwed up and should have offered protection
@20chocsaday
Ай бұрын
The best kind of protection is to get in early and the witness on the stand will be an office Several officers reading off their notes which tell the prosecutions story when the right officer answers the question for the appropriate time. Their work address is used instead of their home address.
@Cumdown
Ай бұрын
@@20chocsaday i cant see how that would be used in court. It's hearsay. And if it's an affidavit, then it doesn't need to be acted out by officers
@adam.maqavoy
Ай бұрын
Yee.. :/
@ontoya1
Ай бұрын
Yea they sent her to the wolfs. They're true clowns for that
@Dwigt_Rortugal
Ай бұрын
Intelligence agencies were idiots for not officially recruiting her. She wouldn't have needed much training and she was demonstrably very talented. I wonder if they saw her as a threat.
I’ve been checking daily for this for too long
Welcome back brother! 💪🏻
I used to be friends with her daughter. Never knew this story. How freaking cool.
@Kas_Styles
24 күн бұрын
Wow
Jack nice to see you are still alive, miss you dude
I never really gave too much credit to shadow banning before, but I never received notifications or alerts for this episode. I am grateful for your show and have listened to every episode. Thank you!
Glad to see a new upload!!!! My Thursdays have been so empty without your uploads
Thank you for coming back 🙏🏽
"how did i get here" because you are a living legend
Woooo!! Been waiting for a new episode! Thank you so much,!
A new drop while I'm a work ❤ love this!
1:11:08 : How the heck did the police just let those guys go? That's wild.
Phew! Was getting nervous. Glad you're ok! Greetings & thanks from the U.K (well, Wakefield West Yorkshire at the very least!)
@mishXY
Ай бұрын
why? he said that he is going to slow down episode releases to a new one every 1 or 2 months.
thank you for coming back!!
Dude, been raw dogging my nights without your content lol
why are the comments like "glad you are alive and still doing this"? he literally said that he is going to reduce upload frequency this year. all is fine and going according to plan. I'm simply glad to see a new episode once a month.
@HorsesArePeople2
Ай бұрын
I think it's meant more jokingly, I don't think anyone thought he actually died lol
@tahliamobile
Ай бұрын
Because waiting a month to hear our fav podcaster has felt like forever.
@jchastain789
Ай бұрын
Yea literally I didn't know he made that announcement otl. But dang ig we didn't know what we had with the vids twice a week
@Rafael-oq9vu
Ай бұрын
how hard is it to understand a joke lard ass
@CrashRacknShoot
Ай бұрын
Why are you so gullible?
ha! i was just checking to see where your stuff was on twitter yesterday lol good to see you uploading here again
I always look forward to your videos!! Thank you!
Welcome back, Jack! Loving this ep.
Glad your back man!
WOHOOO! Welcome back! I've been checking for a new episode every few days
Thanks for sharing this amazing story.
YAAAY was eagerly awaiting this new episode
Unbelievable, Ryan, each story is better than the last. Excellent commentary work.
We’ve waited for this long
Wow welcome back!
He’s back!!!
Bringing the heat my brother
Wow. What a great episode. Fascinating story
Welcome back bro
Finally a new episode. Today is a good day!
Every episode is great
This is definitely one of the best episodes of all time. Shannen's story is heroic!
Love your content keep it up
Wahooooooo your back 👍
Welcome back!!
Jack, this was beautifully told. What a gal. Rest in peace. You are a fantastic storyteller. Thank you 🙏 Love from the UK.
Jack! Where have you been!!??
Unbelievable how the first case and media exposed her. What the heck! Absolutely ridiculous. Probably cost people their lives through attacks that could've been stopped
@Hemoglakbin
Ай бұрын
right?! how come journalists couldn't think of this just to have the latest gossip? 🤦
@abigalanderson7494
Ай бұрын
As a defendant you have the right to face your accuser as stated in the 6th amendment
@Noah-1999
Ай бұрын
@@abigalanderson7494 Face accuser ≠ have the accuser's name and occupation leaked to national media
Per usual such an INCREDIBLE podcast 🤙
Crazy that criminals in witness protection are handled with more care than this situation was
Whoop whoop, early bird I guess. Glad there is a new episode!
Jack, thanks for the new podcast, when next are we going to hearing from you again.
Shannen was clearly determined to find answers and clever enough to hide her IP and made sock puppet accounts with personas. if she just handed over info she gathered anonymously she would have saved herself trouble.
@parafitality2730
Ай бұрын
Also means she would've had to accept that staying anonymous meant she would not be updated or involved in the case, if it was even actioned. She made a choice not to stay anonymous.
I love darknet diaries, Thanks jack
I remember I was in the principals office about to get in trouble for not doing my homework or something like that and seeing all the adults freaking out and everyone’s parents coming to check kids out we didn’t find out what happened until we got home and was seeing it on the news because unlike every other school who brought TVs in to their classrooms they thought it better to act like nothing was going on. But when I found out I hopped on AOL and immediately started blaming the USSR and a dude on my buddy list was like nah dude that don’t exist anymore lol
@pedrocerrano5084
Ай бұрын
You were at the principal for homework?
@bigdiggle5036
Ай бұрын
Yup lol, I used to refuse to do school at home and would wait until I got to school the next day and the teacher couldn’t stand it even though it was turned in completed
LETS GOOOOO. NEW DARK NET DIARIES!!!
oh my god... this is amazing!
What an incredible story! Gripping from start to finish. I cannot wrap my head around how Shannen, American as apple pie, living in fucking Montana, just up and casually learned Arabic and started operating in these clandestine circles with a newly acquired language. The Osama Khasser (idk if spelled right) swindle is insane given it was all communicated in Arabic. Google translate didn't come out until 2006, and you can bet that anything then was nowhere near the quality we take for granted today. She said f*** 9/11, f*** Al-Qaeda, and then became a cyber intelligence savant. Legend
Awesome episode
Amazing episode
Man i was so used to the weekly schedule i got scared for you
Omg new episode lets gooooo
“Make Chasity belt.” Have literally never heard of that one.
This is a good tribute
YIKES! That chilling intro.... I mean. I was just a sophomore in hell school (what the fuck is high school?). Scary shit. You know? I just got my mom into this series yesterday with the episode about ARYA and she finally realizes this channel isn't just another one of my 'otaku kicks'. Now she hears this and, yup.... 'news at a down to earth level.'
Jack, what a whopping great story! Woman to be revered and remembered!
YESS FINALLY ANOTHER ONE! HERE BEFORE 100 VIEWS
letsss gooo Jack we were waiting for u
Hi again Jack you like to ask for ideas for Podcasts, I got one for ya. Because I'm getting into Cybersecurity and looking for job. The Indian kitchens seem to concentrate on whose applied to job listing on LinkedIn and never call you back after telling you, you got the job.
That feels like waaaaaay longer than usual between
...and just like that, we had a department of homeland security. Didn't take long for them to aim their sites at our own people. I mean, "why do you care if you have nothing to hide?".....
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LETS GO JACK !!!!!!!!!!!!! We (our higher self) punish ourselves at the end (very rarely) if we are blind to our true arrogance about what matters The obvious symptom is we created the output symbols/belief that spell out hell ANDEN ? we go agen. So we become better. Salute to all the heroes
@B.V.Luminous
Ай бұрын
We go agen until no more anden!!!
I can't believe they doxxed her like that!!!!!! What a bunch of idiots.
WE'RE BACK BABY !!!!! The usual 12:01 am. PST upload !!!!
This is wild. I've hated US foreign policy my whole life. Not onc3 has it ever even crossed my mind to hurt people over it. I cant understand how these people get to that conclusion.
On the morning of Tuesday September 11th 2001, I was 20 to and it was my day off. I was about to to take my first programming exam in college and was going to sleep in a little because I didn't have to wake up at 6 am for work. My girlfriend at the time comes busting in the bedroom screaming that a plane had hit the WTC in New York. I jumped outta bed and ran to the livingroom in time to watch as the second plane flew into the tower. You talk about a sense of dread... I had no idea what to do... I thought this was the beginning of the end as I watched as history played out live and as the world changed forever.
@abigalanderson7494
Ай бұрын
I rember when 8u1d1n9 7 was reported to have collapsed when it was still standing
This is the best Intro ever..... 🥰🥰🥰👃✌️🇨🇦
hes back!!!
That's a decent voice model you've trained there, Jack
Jack is back babyyy!
Could you imagine trying to hide your porn from this mom??
The FBI messed up so bad!!! And the prosecutor should have HID her identity and the fact he pushed for her to fully identify herseld putting herself, her career, her families lives, and friends, and innocent people around her if a bomb goes off or something. 5 holes in the car is a sign... 1 for each family members... If it was my wife, i would insist she stop after thr stolen car and bullet holes... Her moving forward and continuing is putting her families lives in danger and to me, thats too much. To see her put her life in danger, and everyones else.
@abigalanderson7494
Ай бұрын
6th amendment
@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel
Ай бұрын
yeah, she should have pushed to not expose her identity untill they really needed her with out exposing her and her family.
oops looks like I’m staying up late tonight .. worth it
Maybe a bit of a harsh take but she accepted what she was going to be in for as soon as she started, especially as a judge. Prosecution's objective is to prosecute first, and everything else comes after. If she wanted to retain anonymity, she would've had to accept the fact that she had to hand over her info without any guarantee of action being taken or any updates. Didn't seem like who she was though.
2001 Internet was just Runescape and Madblast to me.
Wer back!!!! Yussss the foreplay is over!!
Amazing lady must being incredibly intelligent to do so many amazing things.
After the 3th. sentence,the Paranoia kicks in;)
I can't believe they threw away that much potential future intel for the first conviction. It's so foolish and nearsighted. Reading between the lines, I think that someone important in the intelligence community wanted to shut her down for future endeavors.
@abigalanderson7494
Ай бұрын
She defiantly made them look incompetent lol
WOW, what a legend!
This episode made me dissapointed in the FBI. It seems they were more interested in making convictions rather than protecting their asset and building a whole underground online intelligence operation in the middleeast. For some reason I feel if M16 or SAS was on this, it would have been way more covert. I'm just saying. Cos they put that wonderful citizen and her family in harms way
Here we go !!!
Thanks Jack nice one like aways.
Not all heroes wear capes.
About time, son 🤪
Ok internet I have a question . My cell phone service was disconnected due to non payment . Yet it still receives robo calls that ring and I can answer and speak to . Can anyone help explain why/how this is even possible from a technical standpoint .? I know that this channel or its community is going to be able to answer this question . Thank you in advance for any assistance in this matter .
Another incredible episode! 📠💯
I been wondering where u been bro.
what a stupid move by law enforcement, exposing everything of her.
Shannen earns my respect!
Nice
I miss the old style of narration where your voice doesn't have an emphasis on the end of every sentence trying to make it sound climactic... hope you bring it back brother
Dammit! I feel bad as hell for Shannen's family. Yeah she's a hero. But DAMN. I mean. Shit. How does a guy like Randy continue living after ALL of this?
Keep in mind you could still forge your IP back then Clever girl
Damn Shannen could just join the FBI/CIA at that point
Oh btw no ad break was in the spot where you wanted to put an ad break.
@meepk633
Ай бұрын
These are podcasts before they are uploaded here.
Wow, she needs to be noted as an american hero! She possibly prevented many deaths and a ton of classified information from turnover to the enimies. If she wasnt there, it could have been very bad. Thank you Shannen and all other un-sung American heros!!!! (About half way thru, so still listening to the end)
@abigalanderson7494
Ай бұрын
Shows how incompetent the feds are