CBS Evening News - 2002-05-15
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[0:00] He's on ticket.
[0:03] >> A pre911 terror warning for President
[0:07] Bush. US intelligence alerted the
[0:09] president that Mid Laden might be
[0:11] planning an aircraft hijacking attack.
[0:14] And then there's a matter of what the
[0:15] FBI knew. There's new information about
[0:18] how much Catholic church leaders knew
[0:20] about an abusive priest and how much
[0:22] they covered up. A Kentucky scientist
[0:25] says he's ready to clone a human. Will
[0:27] the government let him? and federal
[0:30] agents keeping an eye on Americans and
[0:32] asking them, "Got a minute? Wait till
[0:36] you hear why.
[0:43] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:46] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:48] headquarters in New York.
[0:50] >> Good evening. The FBI, let it be known
[0:52] today, it is getting ready to make some
[0:54] changes in the way it fights terrorism,
[0:57] including assembling a whole new
[0:59] anti-terrorism team. This comes as US
[1:02] intelligence, the FBI, and other law
[1:04] enforcement agencies are coming under
[1:06] growing criticism for failing to detect
[1:08] the September 11th terror plot and in
[1:11] some cases ignoring clear warnings.
[1:14] Because if there was no direct specific
[1:16] threat of the attack, it's turning out
[1:18] there were indeed a number of warning
[1:21] signs. CBS's David Martin has learned of
[1:24] one that reached the White House. The
[1:26] president's daily intelligence brief
[1:28] delivered each morning by the director
[1:30] of Central Intelligence warned in the
[1:32] weeks before 9/11 that an attack by
[1:34] Osama bin Laden could involve the
[1:37] hijacking of US aircraft. That
[1:39] apparently is as close as US
[1:41] intelligence came to alerting the
[1:43] president to an airliner att