Peter Bergen recalls warning New York Times correspondent of looming 2001 attack

Peter Bergen recalls writing a four-page letter to New York Times correspondent John Burns on 14 August 2001, urging responsible reporting on signs of a major attack. He says he based it on publicly visible signals such as embassy closures and an al-Qaeda video, not classified information. Bergen says Burns later posted a related piece online the weekend before 9/11, but it did not run in print due to an editing error.