CIA declassifies 71 presidential briefs on Bin Laden and al-Qaida before 9/11
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The Facts
- The CIA declassified 71 presidential intelligence briefs concerning Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.
- The CIA released the documents on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
- The released briefs span intelligence assessments from 1998 through September 12, 2001.
- The documents describe analysts’ tracking of bin Laden’s movements, support network and financing.
- The briefs included warnings about possible al-Qaida attacks on U.S. targets.
- A 1998 brief raised the possibility of an explosive-filled aircraft striking a U.S. city.
- The September 11 hijackings killed nearly 3,000 people.
Context
What are the President’s Daily Briefs?
They are highly classified intelligence briefings prepared for the U.S. president and senior government leaders. infobae Hindustan Times Hindu
What do the records show about pre-9/11 intelligence?
They show analysts were monitoring bin Laden and al-Qaida, assessing threats to U.S. targets and seeking to warn leaders about possible attacks, though the documents reflect evolving assessments. Guardian India Today Clarin SAPO
Where Left and Right agree
Left and right largely agree on this one.
- What both sides accept
- Analysts tracked bin Laden's network and warned of attacks for years, so both sides agree the failure was one of execution, not a shortage of intelligence.
- Where Left and Right differ in emphasis
- Whether these briefs are an accounting owed to the nearly 3,000 dead that closes the case, or a forward-looking test of whether the next warning gets acted on.
How left and right read it
Left says
Twenty-five years is a long wait. A 1998 brief raised the possibility of an explosive-filled aircraft striking a U.S. city, and warnings about al-Qaida attacks on U.S. targets kept coming through September 12, 2001, so the failure was never a shortage of gathered intelligence but what officials did with what they already had. These 71 briefs are an accounting owed to the nearly 3,000 people killed — not a case for more power.
“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” — The Guardian
Right says
Protecting Americans from foreign enemies is government's first duty, so these 71 briefs read as a failure of execution rather than of collection. Analysts tracked bin Laden's movements, support network and financing from 1998 through September 12, 2001, and warned of attacks on U.S. targets — one raising an explosive-filled aircraft striking a U.S. city — yet nearly 3,000 died. Warning is not defense. Who converts the next warning into action?
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