WashingtonThe Central Intelligence Agency’s first bin Laden warning: February 1998.
The record undercuts claims that intelligence reached the US too late to act.
The agency released 71 presidential daily briefs, the government’s top-priority intelligence product, spanning Clinton to Bush before the 2001 attacks.
Which agency was tasked to act on each warning remains undisclosed in the release.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 100+ reports worldwide
- TRT World
- RT
- foregrounds bin Laden's WMD pursuit (biological, chemical, nuclear) alongside aircraft hijacking plans