U.S. intelligence was oblivious as the terrorists moved closer to succeeding in their monstrous plot. Day by day, Newsweek reconstructs the road to 9/11.
for missing things and for not focusing. America came to know about"actionable intelligence" and"the wall" and"connecting the dots"; the public was told repeatedly that the laws of the United States, and the civil rights that all Americans enjoyed, were to blame for the attacks. What followed was the largest reorganization of the government since World War II, vast new domestic intelligence authorities, and an endless war.
At the CIA, old intelligence was finally read in August. For over a year, the Agency possessed intelligence reports that two individuals, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi,"known" to be al Qaeda operatives, were in the United States and had been since January 2000. One of those individuals had even flown to the Middle East and returned to New York on July 4th.
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