Twenty-five years after nearly 3,000 lives were lost in a single morning, the CIA has released seventy-one intelligence reports that illuminate what American presidents were told — and when — about Osama bin Laden's intentions to strike the United States. The documents, spanning from early 1998 through the day after the attacks, reveal an intelligence apparatus that named the threat with remarkable specificity, including a 1998 warning that extremists might fly an explosive-laden aircraft into an American city. What the record ultimately exposes is not a failure of information, but a failure o
CIA releases 71 declassified 9/11 documents showing pre-attack warnings to presidents
The 9/11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 people across four coordinated hijackings in the United States.