CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the documents, drawn from daily intelligence briefings to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, “the single largest release of CIA analysis related to 9/11 ever.”
The documents, which amount to more than 100 pages, show a steady stream of alarming but imprecise intelligence reports that bin Laden was preparing to attack the United States, either on U.S. soil or at embassies and U.S. military bases abroad. Many of them were heavily redacted.
But the documents included no major new revelations, as previous inquiries by Congress and accounts by officials in government at the time had made clear that the intelligence agencies were aware of the growing threat from Al Qaeda.
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