Seven months before the 9/11 attacks, the director of the CIA said, “Osama bin Laden and his global network of lieutenants and associates remain the most immediate and serious threat” to the USA. Despite this intel, the Homeland Security Inspector General (IG) found that “17 of the 19 September 11th hijackers were unknown to the intelligence community” and “recruited specifically” for this reason. Moreover, the Department of Justice IG found that the FBI missed multiple opportunities to uncover the plot, amounting to “a significant failure that hindered the FBI’s chances of being able to detect and prevent the September 11 attacks.” One of these failures included a refusal to pursue a Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA) warrant due to “a narrow and conservative interpretation of the FISA requirements.” In stark contrast, the FISA Court itself found that the FBI violated the law to obtain four FISA warrants to spy on people associated with the Trump campaign.