A set of briefing slides from March 1999 shows the Defense Intelligence Agency seizing control of the scientific sensors used to track WMDs, a move hidden behind a reorganization of the Intelligence Community.
From the ruins of African embassies to the planning of an Alabama training center, a 1999 report hides a systemic failure to disrupt al-Qaeda before the 2001 attacks
In 1999, an audit of 201 federal drills found a systemic failure to prepare for no-notice attacks and conventional weapons, leaving a gap in readiness that persisted until 2001.
While the FBI warned that conventional weapons remained the primary terrorist threat, the Pentagon spent millions building a response machine for a chemical apocalypse that intelligence said wasn't coming.