Mike Tuohey was the ticket agent at Portland International Jetport on September 11, 2001. 

💯 Tractor Man. It was not his fault. He did the one thing he could have done at the time. Woulda-coulda-shoulda ruminations are so destructive and unhealthy. I hope he's come to peace with his actions that day. ❤

You’re absolutely right, the intelligence community 100% let the terrorists do this.

It's just sad that he believes that the social shaming pressures of the politically correct manipulation movement prevented him from taking real action.

Bin Laden doesn’t even exist.

What about Dick Cheney.

but he did know, he ignored his gut

@@jcjc8889but no proof. He would have been called a racist. What more could he have done? They didn’t have anything illegal on them. You can’t just deny people because of a gut feeling.

​@heathermitchell7191 Exactly, it wouldn't have mattered anyway. In many other countries, those guys would have been taken to a room and looked at with a fine toothed comb..Our rights and freedoms in America are a double edge sword

In the early 90s, coming from Europe and using JFK, O’Hare and some midwestern airports, I was stunned at the lack of security. This man’s job was to check people in, not check them out. There were many people in different agencies whose job that was, and others who should have had jobs (which didn’t exist), checking those guys out. In Europe, the questions on his list were always asked by airport security - not ticket agents.

@@jcjc8889I ignored the fact that ninety percent of the bodies were not recovered at Ground Zero , then I threw up and felt better and remembered this isn’t possible in a building collapse .

Thank you for you service as a First Responder. 🇺🇸

Sarah , we might have encountered one another. Jason was a colleague and neighbor just outside of Denver.

I am so sorry about your friend, Captain Dahl. My cousin used to be a Captain for American and was flying that day. We were concerned, and I called the AA hotline and told them my concerns and said that all I needed to know was if either jet had taken off from Philly, and they said no. So I knew he was safe. He only was flying from Philly to LAX at the time.

From one first responder family (paramedic) to another. Thank you for. your service. Paramedics often don't get the recognition others do and you should. I appreciate you and all you do for your community.

Well said, I've always wondered how some people can recall such detail (about any event, not just this one), but you're exactly right.

Boy you can read minds Planter?

​@@zendrive PTSD can do that to you I suppose

that's normal, like you rerun it and think of the one thing you could have done. But if anything, this story provides us with a lot of information.....about clues, about what to look for, what to do differently. He wasn't clueless, he sensed something was a bit off. Maybe someone else wouldn't have even noticed some of the things he did.

thats how people in Maine are.

Love this guy. Good for him.

@@charlieroney1008People in a state or region are not all the same. I’m sure there are plenty of douches in Maine. Just like every other place.

Agreed! Only 1.5k people dead under his watch!

@@andybillnewstimeit wasn’t his fault, they should have picked them up when they were taking flying lessons and not wanting to learn how to land, they should have flagged anyone taking photos around the World Trade centre, and let’s not forget they pilots let them into the cockpits.

Spot on steph!

You mean George W bush and all the criminals who brought evil to the world?

Same with 'ol Tuohey for checking him in.

I can't believe this happened....they destroyed America and killed our be beautiful people

TO reward Atta in a devious way , here is hoping Atta got 72 gay guys instead of virgins from the devil..

What else could he have done. I question whether it actually was Atta on that plane. Seems as though he could have been replaced by someone else in BOS. Someone wearing just a dress shirt through the airport…

@@MartineReed of course it was Atta.

@@steve998 Where is the proof? He flew from Portland, ME to BOS, insisting that thst he get his board pass all the way through. He got agitated about it. Why?

⁠@@MartineReed he got agitated about it because the one step boarding pass would allow him to completely skip security in Boston so there’s a lesser chance of things going wrong for him to get in that plane. Without it he had to go through security in Boston but he got through no problem. He was on that plane.

@@wormhole331 There are photos of both of them going through security at BOS, but no photos or videos of them at the gate or boarding.

the intelligence community did 9/11, they have no intention in protecting people

I agree

same happened to me as a 29 year old woman .... they would chat me up and I totally went along with it. But one dude did rile my nerves when I was in a hurry. I just said, "Promise you I hate these extremists more than you do ..and my Turkish mom is a Conservative who watches Fox..." He lol and said what makes you think I'm "casing" you. I said do what you gotta do...but I'm innocent!

I'm sorry that happened to you, but you handled it super well.

@@MothGirl007ditto ❤

I know we shouldn't profile, but I must admit, when we finally got our flight out on 9/16 I sat across the aisle toward the back of the plane from a Arab looking single man sitting all by himself in the row. And he kept taking a wallet out of his backpack and looking at it, then he would go to the bathroom, then come back look out the window for awhile then lean down and read what I thought was a Bible or something, but it was the wallet that set my alarms off, he kept pulling it out and looking through it, like he was familiarizing himself with the contents. Anyway, I told my husband to get ready, because if he tried anything I was going to do my best to stop him! I'm Scots, and am known to go berserker at times! Nothing happened. He was just very quiet and kept to himself, probably because of what happened. At least that's what I told myself, he was a good guy just a little nervous.

💯

not only that, but he actually pulled that 1-step check-in away from them forcing them to check in with AA. still, nothing could be done

What happened with the shaky camera & audio at 35:00???

My friend and were going on a tugboat ride in 2004. And we saw him on that boat. I thought he looked familiar. ( Oprah had interviewed him. ) He kind of circumvented me in a nice way, smiled. Then I figured it. My point is, is I poignantly told him that he had no WAY of knowing that those 2 were trouble. This was in Maine. It was an experience. That whole year in 2001 was.

@@jbdixon4020 I think that was brilliant of him and really the only thing he could do under the rules that existed back then.

Hamm..I am a 'True Englishwoman'...I think you mean a true,good human

The way his mother supported and comforted him. It shows she raised her son into a fine honorable man. They understands life.

And she came at once! Nothing was going to stop her❤❤❤❤

Why do you salute him? He ignored his gut feelings, letting through mass murderers.

I truly believe he felt the world revolved around him and such an inconvenience was the most absurd thing on the world.

hes good old stock , millennials would be in fear of him , older generation would be in awe

@@seanodonnell6947 I'm a Millennial, and I think he seems lovely.

@@seanodonnell6947take your meds 🤡

He wanted to be a cop and those cop instincts were correct.

People do their jobs today. What the hell are you talking about.

I was wondering exactly that

They knew they would still die. The other guys joined a terrorist camp, before the attacks they were asked to record a video where they claimed that they would be martyrs. They assumed that it would be a hijacking whereby the passengers would be used as hostages and they would probably demand political change and would be ready to kill themselves and passengers till the demands are met. It wasn't until just before boarding or during boarding they were revealed the true plans of the operations. Pretty sure I read somewhere that the same hijacker who smiled looked terrified later on.

@NYCPizzaman Yes.

now 20 years later gay millennials are bigger assholes than terrorists

If they have got on Chicago. They would never got on .

​@@jenniferfields1084 Would like to think so, but we never know that

I mean even aside from the killing thousands of people thing, he looks like he'd be an asshole. He has that resting bitch face energy down to a tee.

nothing positive about it. he just learned how to deal with it.

​@@stevenc.5732Resilience is a positive thing, other might have taken their own life because of the guilt

"There was a Female FBI Agent in the Mid-West who sent many Warning reports to the FBI in Washington, D.C. and got no response" *Misogyny truly doesn't pay.* I love Mark Twain so much!

Exactly the government dropped the ball and allowed this to happen through lack of action at best. If the FBI listened to the agent or lots of other warnings.

NO TIME-STAMPED VIDEO OF ANY TERRORISTS AT ANY AIRPORT RELATED TO 9/11 NO PLANE THAT DEPARTED FROM PORTLAND WAS INVOLVED IN 9/11

Yeah

@@tiffprendergast YEAH????

If it wasn't that day it sure as hell would have been some other day. Nothing could have been done to prevent it. It was going to happen one way or the other.

@@MrAnythingForSelenas thats true

i can hardly hear the interviewer

A terrorist attack is coming soon as so many jails have been releasing their worst prisoners.

He is in Hell

​@@kathyr.8135he is in the ground.

Yes, and he was engineer too for what I know.

@@melisentiapheiffer3034There’s really nothing left of his body. His soul is in Hell.

A demon disguised as a human.

I remember him too

Same here. I’ll never forget how on that show when he said he had a bad feeling about Atta being a terrorist. Bone chilling. If it makes him feel any better, he played it as well as you could. He gave him his boarding passes for US Airways but told him if he wanted his American boarding passes, to check with them. Despite Atta continuously mentioning the one step check in.

Agree, but his gut told him something. So sad, no one could have seen it coming.

uh, no one more entitled than the triggered left - cancel culture mob, get offended at the thought of getting offended, shoving tranny issues down our throats. please...

what about "all inclusive" left wingers who wouldn't let you report certain people for apparant racism?

Awesome guy!

I think america l et that happe n

i could listen to him recite the phone book, he's so interesting and has a good talking style AND he is intelligent.

I’m having a beer right now while watching this and I’m making pretend I am with him because I love and adore this man , I am 39 and crying like a baby and I’m a man

@@hanslanda58 it takes a Real man to admit that...god bless

@@TheBobbymcd I’m not ashamed to admit it … all men cry we are humans

@@hanslanda58 and there's nothing to be ashamed about, i cry to..but i dont like crying in front of other people but i do cry.

Keep in mind, if you’re wrong you’re gonna get fired when a paying customer is denied entry to a flight because you racially profiled them. Back then nobody was thinking about people flying planes into buildings, so the odds of being right were pretty long, are you sure you’d be willing to risk your job based off a “weird, gut/hunch” feeling? If so you should do some gambling at the casinos

@@homer9868 True regarding risking job security due to racial profiling, BUT, the FAA had a "no fly" list even back in 2001 (and I believe the Portland Gate Agent also checked them against that and of course their names weren't on there yet), BUT, remember also it was two different airlines (Colgan Air & AA) in between Portland & Boston. Colgan was a regional subsidiary of Continental/United & US Airways Express back in 2001, so it had NO code share or network connection to American. SO, if both flight legs had been on AA for example, the Gate Agents at Logan would have been able to see the Portland Gate Agents notes on them being denied one-step check in and the check of their name against the "No-Fly" list up in Portland. I believe there was also some discrepancy about Mohammed Atta's bag not arriving in Boston with him from Portland as well. I have had personal experience back in the 90's with my bags not arriving with me in San Diego on a regional American Eagle flight from Los Angeles; after flying in cross-country from NYC, also on AA. Those short "regional hop" flights are NOTORIOUS for losing luggage. And that was all on the SAME airline. Also, FAA Computer connectivity and networks back then weren't what they are now.

​@benschaeffer8102 Hearing Colgan air mentioned reminds me of Flight 3407 in 2009 😞

Why should Boston have denied them boarding?

@@aspenmgy Because they were suspicious. Duh. How stupid does one have to be to ask that? 🤷 I don't care if it is: "racial profiling" -- in this instance it would have saved THOUSANDS of lives.

Your so right! The US government is to blame. Makes me so upset and angry that they did not investigate. Mike was certainly not at fault. God bless him.✝️

They were actually warned by Iran and Russia.

The CIA was directly to blame. The CIA knew the terrorists were in the US and refused to share their information with the FBI, very anal people who refused to cooperate with FBI and arrest those terrorists.

Something should have been in place. I could park at the airport 15 minutes before my flight. Stroll to the gate and just show my boarding pass. That was a major city. Zero security in those days. Yet other countries had X-rays and checks. Interviews and weighed your electronics.

Exactly! I was waiting for someone to notice that

He should have stopped them. They should charge him for aiding the terrorists, him and Mousauia

They should arrest this guy. What about the Jewish ppl that never went to work on 9/11

@@DavidPierre-vc6dy it’s still not his fault.

@@DavidPierre-vc6dythere were Jews in the towers wth are you on? I’m Jewish I personally know multiple people who lost loved ones. There’s videos with survivors and interviews with families who lost people. Take your antisemetic bullshit somewhere else

Thank you!

Jacket and tie because they were flying first class. I know as flying " space available" we worked for USAIR,my husband wouldn't put on his jacket and tie until it was time to check in...

I was in NYC that day next to it

He's been interviewed before. I've seen him a couple of times in documentaries.

You go that right. Never even used the word "like" once!

Well said ❤

No one could ever have expected this, now things are much different.

Profiling can be prevention

And all the cancers, pulmonary diseases , disabilities, lifelong burns, blindness and injuries due to concrete& glass raining down

@@sambistabeauty Absolutely Sambistabeauty---in addition to that horror storm for regular everyday NYC folks just living their humble lives, as you mentioned, there were those people, the persistent and daring, determined Pile and Pit crews, so many volunteers from the Family of New York & surrounds----these People, these Lives, these Humans struggling with Suffering and Loss---they taught the Nation and the World something about Love and Devotion and Grit and Steely Resolve and Kindness and Incredible Bravery. The 9/11 Stories, all of the documentaries, I highly recommend that people now go back to these and reexamine, reflect and Remember. I hope the Tunnel to Towers Foundation is a solid way to help, cause I am about to join. God Bless

I agree, if someone isn’t interested in landing, that would be a huge red flag.

Oh I don't know. They could've been planning to stay up in the sky forever.

NO TIME-STAMPED VIDEO OF ANY TERRORISTS AT ANY AIRPORT RELATED TO 9/11 NO PLANE THAT DEPARTED FROM PORTLAND WAS INVOLVED IN 9/11

@@Brian-gx7yx really

@@dalenekavanaugh9030 Yes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rq9nUPs2RAk.html

@@Brian-gx7yx ok what do you y happened

@@dalenekavanaugh9030 Sorry but you really need to do your own research to get an idea of what could ana could not happen. This is a good documentary that out lines important facts. Sorry its quite long ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rq9nUPs2RAk.html