But did nothing about it. Geesh.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2002Sep18.html
9/11 Report Says Agencies Received Credible Clues
Hill Panel to Release Findings Today
By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 18, 2002; Page A12
The U.S. intelligence community received a surprising number of credible reports of a likely terrorist attack prior to Sept. 11, including some threats to domestic targets, according to a congressional report to be unveiled today.
The preliminary findings of the staff of the Senate-House intelligence panel investigating the Sept. 11 strikes also show that some intelligence analysts had focused on the possibility that terrorists might use "airplanes as weapons" in the attacks, a congressional official said yesterday.
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said in mid-May that prior to the attacks, analysts did not seriously consider the use of planes as bombs and therefore were surprised by the method of attack on Sept. 11. "All this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking," Rice said at a May briefing on what President Bush knew before the attacks.