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9/11 hijacker of the American Airlines Flight 77 (1975–2001)
Available reporting shows the CIA had intelligence on two future hijackers (Nawaf al‑Hazmi and Khalid al‑Mihdhar) before 9/11 but did not timely get their names onto FBI watchlists; the 9/11 Commissio...
U.S. intelligence collected multiple warnings throughout 2000–2001 indicating al‑Qaeda intended to strike the United States, including a Presidential Daily Brief on August 6, 2001 titled “Bin Ladin De...
that the 19 hijackers entered the primarily on standard non‑immigrant visas and through routine immigration inspections, and that the specific government watchlists and immigration records available t...
Before September 11, 2001, U.S. and allied intelligence services possessed multiple pieces of intelligence that touched on al‑Qaeda operatives who would become hijackers — including intercepts and lis...
There were significant communication breakdowns between the and the in the period before September 11, 2001: multiple official investigations and contemporaneous reporting conclude that intelligence a...
Tucker Carlson’s 2025 series "The 9/11 Files" frames the September 11, 2001 attacks as a story of , urging a fresh inquiry into who knew what and when. The series advances claims that the official acc...
Within days of 9/11 the FBI’s PENTTBOM investigation identified the 19 hijackers and linked them to al‑Qaeda using documentary evidence from hijackers’ possessions, passenger and travel records, intel...
Before September 11, 2001, FBI field offices had a mixture of concrete and partial leads about some future hijackers—most notably prior identification of Khalid al‑Mihdhar and Nawaf al‑Hazmi on U.S. w...