WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- The CIA's internal watchdog found "systematic problems" in the nation's spy agency that contributed to missing the warning signs of Osama bin Laden's plot to hijack planes on Sept. 11, 2001 and use them as weapons.
The Office of the Inspector General said there was "no comprehensive strategic plan" to thwart bin Laden despite years of warnings and threats from al Qaida. While the nearly 500-page recently declassified report, which is redacted in parts, does not reveal any new information about the terrorist attacks, it underscored multiple intelligence failures.