Twenty-five years after nearly 3,000 lives were lost in a single morning, the CIA has released the intelligence documents that shaped two administrations' understanding of Al Qaeda before the planes fell. Declassified on the anniversary itself, these reports — once circulated at the highest levels of government — offer the public its clearest view yet of what was known, when it was known, and how that knowledge moved, or failed to move, toward action. History rarely delivers clean verdicts, but it sometimes delivers primary sources, and these are among the most consequential ones yet made avai
CIA Releases Pre-9/11 Intelligence Briefings to Clinton and Bush
The September 11 attacks resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths and remains one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history.