Twenty-five years after nearly 3,000 lives were lost in a single morning, the CIA has opened a window into what was known before the world changed — revealing that warnings about bin Laden's intentions, including the possibility of a hijacked aircraft turned into a weapon, accumulated with quiet insistence across two administrations. The release of dozens of presidential briefing documents on the anniversary of September 11 does not rewrite history so much as it deepens the tragedy of it, illuminating the distance between knowledge and action that has haunted American national security ever si
CIA releases declassified briefs showing pre-9/11 warnings of bin Laden threat
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 attacks, which upended American national security.