Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” The CIA’s famous Presidential Daily Brief, presented to George W. Bush on August 6, 2001, has always been Exhibit A in the case that his administration shrugged off warnings of an Al Qaeda attack. But months earlier, starting in the spring of 2001, the CIA repeatedly and urgently began to warn the White House that an attack was coming.
Politico: ‘The attacks will be spectacular’
A hijacked commercial plane approaches the World Trade Center shortly before crashing into the landmark skyscraper 11 Sept. 2001 in New York.