CIA Declassifies Pre-9/11 Briefs on Bin Laden on Attack Anniversary

The CIA has released several dozen presidential daily briefing documents on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, revealing how extensively intelligence officials tracked Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida before the hijackings. One 1998 briefing warned President Clinton that bin Laden's preferred option was to strike US soil in Washington. The documents deepen the historical record of what US leadership knew and when.