Twenty-five years after nearly 3,000 lives were lost in a single morning, the CIA has opened its files on what presidents were told — and when. Declassified intelligence reports delivered to both the Clinton and Bush administrations now stand as a primary record of how clearly, and how often, the threat of bin Laden and Al Qaeda was named before September 11, 2001. History rarely offers such direct access to the gap between knowing and acting, and these documents place that gap in plain view.
CIA Declassifies Pre-9/11 Intelligence Warnings to Clinton and Bush Administrations
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.