What did US intelligence know before the 9/11 attacks?

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, the CIA has released a series of presidential briefing documents showing what United States leaders had been told about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the years before the plane hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people.CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the release of the documents “an act of exceptional transparency”. This is the agency’s largest-ever release of presidential daily briefs, the classified intelligence summaries written for the president and his most senior officials.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4US holds memorials for the 9/11 attacks, 25 years laterlist 2 of 4How US leaders remembered the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attackslist 3 of 4Zohran Mamdani commemorates 9/11 amid widespread criticismlist 4 of 4Former top US diplomat reveals mistakes made after 9/11 attacksend of listThe files cover the period from February 1998 to September 12, 2001 – the day after the deadly attacks on New York City and Washington, DC – and reveal how the CIA tracked bin Laden’s movements, his financing and his networks inside the US and abroad.In one, a briefer warns that the group behind that year’s East Africa embassy...