CIA releases dozens of presidential daily briefs on Bin Laden and al-Qaida from before 9/11
The CIA has declassified a large collection of presidential daily briefs concerning Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida from the period leading up to the 9/11 attacks. These documents provide insight into intelligence gathering and the government's understanding of the terrorist network's capabilities and intentions.
Why it matters
The release offers historical transparency into the intelligence failures and assessments that preceded the most significant terrorist attack in modern US history.
The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, said the documents were the agency’s single largest release of declassified presidential daily briefs. The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, said the documents were the agency’s single largest release of declassified presidential daily briefs. September 11 2001 CIA releases dozens of presidential daily briefs on Bin Laden and al-Qaida from before 9/11 The presidential briefing documents were declassified on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks
Prefer the Guardian on Google Several dozen presidential briefing documents declassified on Friday, the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks , detail intelligence that government officials had gathered about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida leading up to the hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people and upended American national security .
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