According to a Top Secret report from the Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet, on March 19, 2004: “A SEIB [Senior Executive Intelligence Brief] article on August 7, 2001, ‘Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US,’ underscored Bin Ladin’s desire to conduct terrorist attacks in the US homeland. It noted that the Millennium plot to […]
8/7/2001
According to a Senior Executive Intelligence Brief titled, ‘Terrorism: Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in the US’ on August 7, 2001: “Al-Qa’ida members, including some US citizens, have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure here. Two al-Qa’ida members found guilty in the conspiracy to […]
8/7/2001
According to a Senior Executive Intelligence Brief titled, ‘Terrorism: Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in the US’ on August 7, 2001: “His [Bin Ladin’s] attacks on the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 show that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin associates surveilled the Embassies […]
8/7/2001
According to a Senior Executive Intelligence Brief titled, ‘Terrorism: Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in the US’ on August 7, 2001: “The millennium plotting in Canada in [December] 1999 may have been part of Bin Ladin’s first serious attempt at a terrorist strike in the US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam says that he conceived the […]
8/7/2001
“Although the [August 7, 2001] SEIB [Senior Executive Intelligence Brief] repeated the title of [the August 6] PDB [Presidential Daily Brief, titled ‘Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S.‘], it did not contain the reference to the hijackings, the alert in New York, the alleged casing of buildings in New York, the threat phoned in […]
8/6/2001
The August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Briefing (PDB) warned of the potential for bin Laden to attack the U.S. “Looking back, [President] Bush admitted that he did not react with the alarm he should have. He did not summon the directors of the FBI and the CIA. He did not order heightened alerts. Nor was […]
8/6/2001
The August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Briefing (PDB) warned of the potential for bin Laden to attack the U.S. “The document would later become famous, or infamous, but on this morning it seemed maddeningly unspecific, offering information that was sketchy and mostly three or four years old. Nothing on the first page cited current intelligence. […]
8/6/2001
Regarding the August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Briefing (PDB), which warned of the potential for bin Laden to attack the U.S., then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: “That memo was the only PDB item that addressed the homeland threat in the 192 PDBs that the President [Bush] had seen since assuming office. On August 6 […]
8/6/2001
Regarding the August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Briefing, which warned of the potential for bin Laden to attack the U.S., then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: “The report had been developed only after the President [Bush] himself had asked whether there was any information on a possible al Qaeda attack on the U.S. homeland. The […]
8/6/2001
Former President George W. Bush recalled, “During the summer [of 2001], I had asked the CIA to reexamine al Qaeda’s capabilities to attack inside the United States. In early August [6, 2001], the Agency delivered a Presidential Daily Briefing [PDB] that reiterated bin Laden’s long-standing intent to strike America, but could not confirm any concrete […]