President's Daily Brief, 6 August 2001

TL;DR — ‘Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US’ — the most consequential single page of intelligence in modern American history.

⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. US federal government work (17 USC §105).

Declassified and approved for release 10 April 2004. Titled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.

“Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladin since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US.”

Thirty-six days before the attacks. The brief’s content and its handling became central to the 9/11 Commission’s inquiry, and the argument about it — whether it was actionable warning or historical background — is still live.

Two pages. Filed alongside the President’s Daily Brief, 7 August 1965 in this collection, which gives the genre’s ordinary texture against which this one should be read.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

2 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.