How a Montana Mom Became the FBI's Secret Weapon Against Al Qaeda🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 145: Shannen

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20 күн бұрын

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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@werked 19 күн бұрын

Oh hallelujah! Thank you for coming back, Jack! My Thursday morning is finally complete again!

@durellmwakulo4793 18 күн бұрын

Mine too

@ardeladimwit 19 күн бұрын

the military and FBI really screwed up and should have offered protection

@20chocsaday 18 күн 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 17 күн 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 17 күн бұрын

Yee.. :/

@ontoya1 17 күн бұрын

Yea they sent her to the wolfs. They're true clowns for that

@Dwigt_Rortugal 15 күн 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.

@thebookofbus 19 күн бұрын

I used to be friends with her daughter. Never knew this story. How freaking cool.

@Kas_Styles 2 күн бұрын

Wow

@zwischendurundmoll3968 19 күн бұрын

"how did i get here" because you are a living legend

@Digital_Apparition 19 күн бұрын

Jack nice to see you are still alive, miss you dude

@marlesy2k7 19 күн бұрын

I’ve been checking daily for this for too long

@loganchase3855 19 күн бұрын

Welcome back brother! 💪🏻

@shala6889 19 күн бұрын

WOHOOO! Welcome back! I've been checking for a new episode every few days

@KilozMedia 19 күн бұрын

Glad to see a new upload!!!! My Thursdays have been so empty without your uploads

@FrankWhite1990 19 күн бұрын

1:11:08 : How the heck did the police just let those guys go? That's wild.

@MosspackAdventures 12 күн бұрын

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!

@Erasmuspipebagger1 19 күн бұрын

Phew! Was getting nervous. Glad you're ok! Greetings & thanks from the U.K (well, Wakefield West Yorkshire at the very least!)

@mishXY 19 күн бұрын

why? he said that he is going to slow down episode releases to a new one every 1 or 2 months.

@emmanuelandrade152 19 күн бұрын

Thank you for coming back 🙏🏽

@DankLordMaster 19 күн бұрын

Woooo!! Been waiting for a new episode! Thank you so much,!

@PhotoJeticPoet 19 күн бұрын

A new drop while I'm a work ❤ love this!

@sagethelemur 19 күн бұрын

ha! i was just checking to see where your stuff was on twitter yesterday lol good to see you uploading here again

@KinGs1ze 15 күн бұрын

thank you for coming back!!

@Hemoglakbin 15 күн бұрын

Welcome back, Jack! Loving this ep.

@morisn 8 күн бұрын

Unbelievable, Ryan, each story is better than the last. Excellent commentary work.

@Waldo777 12 күн бұрын

I always look forward to your videos!! Thank you!

@lorenstickler4482 19 күн бұрын

Dude, been raw dogging my nights without your content lol

@must2dance 15 күн бұрын

Glad your back man!

@insydian 19 күн бұрын

Wow welcome back!

@yamitvargas8065 19 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing this amazing story.

@BC.702 19 күн бұрын

Welcome back bro

@kiwiradioNZ 18 күн бұрын

YAAAY was eagerly awaiting this new episode

@bahknee.c 13 күн бұрын

This is definitely one of the best episodes of all time. Shannen's story is heroic!

@mishXY 19 күн бұрын

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 19 күн бұрын

I think it's meant more jokingly, I don't think anyone thought he actually died lol

@tahliamobile 19 күн бұрын

Because waiting a month to hear our fav podcaster has felt like forever.

@jchastain789 19 күн 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 18 күн бұрын

how hard is it to understand a joke lard ass

@CrashRacknShoot 18 күн бұрын

Why are you so gullible?

@Sps27 19 күн бұрын

He’s back!!!

@MrDjhz 16 күн бұрын

Crazy that criminals in witness protection are handled with more care than this situation was

@randykitchleburger2780 19 күн бұрын

Jack! Where have you been!!??

@euphoriumx2652 19 күн бұрын

Finally a new episode. Today is a good day!

@aquateenjunkie21 19 күн бұрын

Wow. What a great episode. Fascinating story

@acmhfmggru 15 күн бұрын

Jack "definitely not a Fed" Rhysider

@calebo3621 18 күн бұрын

Bringing the heat my brother

@bbok1616 19 күн бұрын

We’ve waited for this long

@johnmonsees6040 19 күн бұрын

Love your content keep it up

@gazfirst 19 күн бұрын

Wahooooooo your back 👍

@torvomc7440 19 күн бұрын

Every episode is great

@Noah-1999 19 күн бұрын

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 15 күн бұрын

right?! how come journalists couldn't think of this just to have the latest gossip? 🤦

@abigalanderson7494 13 күн бұрын

As a defendant you have the right to face your accuser as stated in the 6th amendment

@Noah-1999 13 күн бұрын

@@abigalanderson7494 Face accuser ≠ have the accuser's name and occupation leaked to national media

@bigdiggle5036 14 күн бұрын

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 12 күн бұрын

You were at the principal for homework?

@bigdiggle5036 9 күн 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

@rezaulhaquebarlaskar 19 күн бұрын

Welcome back!!

@Dwasabi 15 күн бұрын

Per usual such an INCREDIBLE podcast 🤙

@terraflops 19 күн бұрын

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 11 күн 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.

@omn5142 14 күн бұрын

I love darknet diaries, Thanks jack

@jokersterritory 19 күн бұрын

Whoop whoop, early bird I guess. Glad there is a new episode!

@randoir1863 19 күн бұрын

WE'RE BACK BABY !!!!! The usual 12:01 am. PST upload !!!!

@darylist 11 күн бұрын

Awesome episode

@anisiobiarinze8041 17 күн бұрын

Jack, thanks for the new podcast, when next are we going to hearing from you again.

@VoicesOfDissention 16 күн бұрын

Amazing episode

@notchildish 19 күн бұрын

LETS GOOOOO. NEW DARK NET DIARIES!!!

@YeetLord666 13 күн бұрын

Could you imagine trying to hide your porn from this mom??

@user-fx2jq6ev1e 19 күн бұрын

oh my god... this is amazing!

@drakehasbula5557 14 күн бұрын

letsss gooo Jack we were waiting for u

@chuckobra 19 күн бұрын

Jack, what a whopping great story! Woman to be revered and remembered!

@PronatorTendon 12 күн бұрын

This is a good tribute

@joelRmontfort 13 күн бұрын

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

@miproduction6196 15 күн бұрын

BEST CHANNEL ON KZfaq

@NathanSmyth-ds1mq 19 күн бұрын

YESS FINALLY ANOTHER ONE! HERE BEFORE 100 VIEWS

@Fxnarji 16 күн бұрын

hes back!!!

@RETRO-DEV 19 күн бұрын

Omg new episode lets gooooo

@eyezikandexploits 16 күн бұрын

Man i was so used to the weekly schedule i got scared for you

@chateaudisco1436 19 күн бұрын

That feels like waaaaaay longer than usual between

@jeff-hh9mc 19 күн бұрын

“Make Chasity belt.” Have literally never heard of that one.

@JinglePeeny 14 күн бұрын

Jack is back babyyy!

@redmuskratt 13 күн бұрын

...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?".....

@galeparker1067 19 күн бұрын

This is the best Intro ever..... 🥰🥰🥰👃✌️🇨🇦

@goldnutter412 19 күн бұрын

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 19 күн бұрын

We go agen until no more anden!!!

@jordanjackson6151 19 күн бұрын

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.'

@paultidwell8799 13 күн бұрын

Not all heroes wear capes.

@liverandlearn448 19 күн бұрын

WOW, what a legend!

@Josefr8st 19 күн бұрын

oops looks like I’m staying up late tonight .. worth it

@dcriley65 13 күн бұрын

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.

@suntracker844 8 күн бұрын

Thanks Jack nice one like aways.

@lerrynhawke3375 19 күн бұрын

Wer back!!!! Yussss the foreplay is over!!

@arijit1472 18 күн бұрын

Here we go !!!

@MikeHarris1984 15 күн бұрын

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 13 күн бұрын

6th amendment

@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel 11 күн бұрын

yeah, she should have pushed to not expose her identity untill they really needed her with out exposing her and her family.

@parafitality2730 11 күн бұрын

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.

@h4ckh3lp 18 күн бұрын

That's a decent voice model you've trained there, Jack

@AntiWanted 17 күн бұрын

Nice

@joel9909 7 күн бұрын

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

@stefanjohansson2373 19 күн бұрын

4:42 “She wanted justice for those who died”. “Innocent people died”. It’s really tragic, but you could also apply those sentences on all the people US Army killed in other countries in meaningless wars. If USA only protects their border and don’t start wars all around the world there’s a much smaller risk that they will be attacked by terrorists. But that would also be catastrophic for the US war industry, that like to kill people abroad when testing their new systems. Money talks and a life is always a life…

@tommynuker 19 күн бұрын

Get in the sea you plonker.

@trashcartier4112 19 күн бұрын

the irony of the fact that our government is in all these other countries abroad but can't even enforce our own border

@abigalanderson7494 13 күн бұрын

God bless Chelsea Manning and Julien Assange

@marnig9185 19 күн бұрын

After the 3th. sentence,the Paranoia kicks in;)

@jmmatthews3115 19 күн бұрын

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 13 күн бұрын

I rember when 8u1d1n9 7 was reported to have collapsed when it was still standing

@CarlosDeenomak 15 күн бұрын

WELCOME BACK ya kossomak 🎉

@blairseo1 19 күн бұрын

Amazing lady must being incredibly intelligent to do so many amazing things.

@knewdist 17 күн бұрын

About time, son 🤪

@shaikhshafeen 17 күн бұрын

what a stupid move by law enforcement, exposing everything of her.

@Dwigt_Rortugal 15 күн бұрын

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 13 күн бұрын

She defiantly made them look incompetent lol

@stephengardner5746 17 күн бұрын

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

@MrXtahsee 19 күн бұрын

RIP Shannon ❤

@jchastain789 19 күн бұрын

I been wondering where u been bro.

@louiepecan 19 күн бұрын

Another incredible episode! 📠💯

@22jbwest 19 күн бұрын

3AM drop

@goldnutter412 19 күн бұрын

Keep in mind you could still forge your IP back then Clever girl

@novoiperkele 4 күн бұрын

Prosecutor and judge.. Complete mor0ns.

@jordanjackson6151 19 күн бұрын

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?

@apIthletIcc 19 күн бұрын

Not a fed but in that alternate reality lets face it we would still be sitting here listening to your podcast cuz you would have likely fell into it just in a different way 😂