Declassified files show Clinton, Bush got repeated warnings of bin Laden hijack plots

Twenty-five years after nearly three thousand lives were lost in a single morning, declassified presidential briefings confirm what many long suspected: the warnings were there, carried in careful bureaucratic language across two administrations, naming names and describing rehearsals. The release of seventy-one presidential daily briefs spanning 1998 to 2001 does not resolve the question of culpability so much as it deepens the older, harder question of how knowledge becomes action — and why, so often, it does not.