CIA releases dozens of presidential daily briefs on Bin Laden and al-Qaida from before 9/11

On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the CIA declassified several dozen presidential daily briefs concerning Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida. These documents provide insight into the intelligence gathered by government officials in the period leading up to the 2001 hijackings.

The released records detail the information available to leadership prior to the attacks, which resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths and significant global geopolitical shifts. The declassification serves to provide a historical record of the intelligence landscape as it existed before the events of September 11.