Early 2001 Memo to Rice Warned of Al Qaeda
From Times Wire Reports
A newly declassified memo shows that the Bush administration was warned about the threat posed by Al Qaeda in January 2001, five days after President Bush took office. The memo was sent from former White House terrorism chief Richard Clarke to then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice.
The memo was described at the Sept. 11 commission hearings, though its full contents weren’t released until now. It is posted on the Internet site of the National Security Archive at www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/.
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