CIA releases declassified docs showing pre-9/11 warnings of bin Laden's US strike plans

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11, the CIA opened a vault that had been sealed for a generation, releasing dozens of presidential briefing documents that trace what American intelligence knew — and warned — about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the years before nearly 3,000 lives were lost. The papers, spanning 1998 to 2001, reveal a portrait of foreknowledge that is both striking in its specificity and sobering in its incompleteness. As nations do when confronting their own failures of imagination, the United States now holds these documents up to the light — not to rewrite hist