The US national archives just released more than 300 never-bef0re-seen photos of the Bush administration, taken just after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The photos — taken by the Vice Presidential photographer and released this week by the National Archives — were released as part of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by documentary filmmaker Colette Neirouz Hanna.
The images show intimate photos of administration higher-ups like Vice President Dick Cheney, then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of State Colin Powell as the administration began developing its response to the attack.
The 9/11 Commission Report found that despite some early warning signs that al-Qaeda was planning a strike on US soil, few were able to predict the method of the attack.
This left the Bush administration scrambling to come up with a message for the nation as well as an appropriate military response.
