The warning to Bill Clinton was tucked at the bottom of a presidential intelligence brief delivered on September 10, 1998.
1998-09-10 → 1998-09-11
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- The warning to Bill Clinton was tucked at the bottom of a presidential intelligence brief delivered on September 10, 1998.
The now-infamous warning to then-President Bill Clinton was tucked at the bottom of a presidential intelligence brief delivered on September 10, 1998: A group associated with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden “may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city.”
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Origin: extracted from CIA declassifies intel warnings to White House prior to 9/11 attack · 2026-09-11 23:07