Bombshell CIA 9/11 files lay bare Bill Clinton's horrific Bin Laden mistake.

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Bill Clinton's White House was warned that Osama bin Laden wanted to crash a bomb-packed plane into an American city three years before the hijackers struck, explosive CIA files reveal.

The warning was a part of a September 10, 1998 report prepared for senior Clinton officials cleared to read the then-president's most secret morning intelligence digest, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Headlined 'Bin Laden's Location and Intentions,' it offered no date or target, but made clear the terror chief had Washington, DC, in his sights. Bin Laden's terrorists would crash an airplane into the Pentagon three years later.

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The 9/11 Commission had mentioned the 1998 memo, but never disclosed it had been written for the president's own briefing stream.

Former acting CIA chief Michael Morell told the Wall Street Journal that the documents prove the agency delivered 'long and loud strategic warnings' that two administrations failed to act upon.

But agency insiders told the outlet that the intelligence at the time was often thin and drawn from 'highly questionable sources.'

The lack of certainty, insiders told WSJ, made it difficult for policymakers to respond to a potential plot with no time, place or method.

However, one CIA analyst claimed that counterterrorism operations were not a presidential priority before 9/11, and the agency lacked the manpower to dismantle bin Laden's terror network.

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