White House Received Al-Qaeda Warning One Week Before 9/11 Attacks

A week before the September 11 attacks, White House counterterrorism coordinator Richard A. Clarke raised urgent concerns about the al-Qaeda threat. Clarke directly questioned then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice about whether the US administration was genuinely committed to addressing the al-Qaeda danger. The warning came amid growing intelligence signals about a potential terrorist strike on American soil. Clarke's query to Rice highlighted what critics later described as a failure to act decisively on pre-attack intelligence.
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