Usama bin Ladin and the FBI's 1999 List of 'Significant Events'
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
By Desmond Okafor ·
WMD
GAO and the 201 Exercises That Blinded Washington to Conventional Terror
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.
By Harlan Pryce ·
DoD and the 1998 Bet on a WMD Mirage
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.
By Harlan Pryce ·