This episode revisits No Agenda Episode 9 (December 22, 2007) — every claim checked against 2007 knowledge and today's record.

• Adam — Brill founded Clear after Brill's Content. Correct: founded 2003; the magazine ceased publication in 2001. The original Clear shut down June 22, 2009; the name and lanes returned under new ownership.

• Adam and John — Clear's mechanics: retinal scan and fingerprints; "the targeted traveler program." Mixed: right in shape — but the scan was iris, not retinal, and the programme's name was Registered Traveler.

• Adam (John concurs) — WTC 7 questions: collapse timing, "pull it," thermite. Mixed: open at the time (NIST unreported; hosts relay questions only). NIST's report (November 2008): office fires, via thermal expansion at Column 79, caused the collapse; no explosives or fuel oil; no surviving evidence for thermite claims.

• Adam — Pilots for 9/11 Truth: NTSB data puts Flight 77 at 480 ft at "impact" — so it overflew the Pentagon. Incorrect: the data was genuine, but the group's March 2007 release concedes the recording "stops at least one second prior to… impact time"; 480 ft is pressure altitude at the last instant of a 500+ mph descent. Physical evidence: five downed light poles, wreckage, identified remains.

• John — The 1987 repeal of the "equal time law" launched Limbaugh. Correct in substance: the FCC repealed the Fairness Doctrine in August 1987; Limbaugh went national in 1988 (56 stations). The slip is vocabulary: "equal time" (Section 315) is a separate rule, still in force.

• John — Prediction: the next president will be a Republican — "absolutely, there's no question about it." Incorrect: Obama won in 2008 with 365 electoral votes.

• John — Prediction: the Democratic ticket will be "Hillary–Obama." Incorrect: it was Obama–Biden, which won; Clinton became Secretary of State. John hedged it: "I will probably be proven wrong."

• Adam — Ron Paul's money bomb raised "six million dollars on the 16th of December." Correct: the December 16, 2007 "Tea Party" money bomb raised ~$6.0–6.6M from 58,407 contributors in one day — then the largest one-day campaign haul.

• Adam — Dodd's filibuster stopped the FISA bill. Correct: Reid withdrew the bill December 17, 2007, over Dodd's filibuster on telecom immunity. One slip: the Protect America Act ran to February 2008, not a week or so.

• Adam — The FISA bill would pardon the telecoms "going back five years" for warrantless-surveillance cooperation. Correct on retroactive immunity; it became law in the FISA Amendments Act (Title II), signed July 10, 2008.

• John — Kissinger BBC quotation: military victory in Iraq is not possible. Correct, essentially verbatim — BBC interview broadcast November 19, 2006. A year old, not recent; it did get U.S. play.

• Adam — A Saudi sovereign fund: "a trillion dollars." Mixed: the announcement was days old (December 2007; SAMA's foreign assets were ~$320B), but $1 trillion tops anything reported; the fund was no lending facility for U.S. banks and never launched in that form. The instinct was the season's story (ADIA put $7.5B into Citigroup in November 2007).

• John and Adam — Oil: "a hundred dollars a barrel" (John) vs "96 or something" (Adam). Mixed: not yet: WTI was in the low-to-mid $90s (high $99.29 on November 21, 2007), so Adam was closer; the first $100 print came January 2, 2008.

• John — The Post item: the FBI's $1 billion biometric database. Correct: the Post's A01 story (December 22, 2007). The NGI contract went to Lockheed Martin (February 2008), up to $1B over ten years.

Episode score: 14 claims — 7 correct · 4 mixed · 3 incorrect · 0 unverified. Series running total: 96 — 39 correct · 34 mixed · 18 incorrect · 7 unverified.

Sources: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2008/08/nist-wtc-7-investigation-finds-building-fires-caused-collapse

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