Tuesday, June 04, 2002

Mueller on Meet the Press, June 2nd.

MR. MUELLER: No. I’m just getting started on the job. And the beauty of the job is I have the opportunity to work with FBI special agents, the men and women in the FBI, who are remarkable and wonderful. And what gets lost in a lot of this dialogue is the job that they have done since September 11 in protecting this country. Within two weeks, they identified the 19 hijackers, within six weeks, they identified the fact that this was al-Qaeda, leading back to Osama bin Laden. Since September 11, they have been working day and night to protect the country from additional attacks. They are a wonderful group of individuals. It is the people that has made the bureau in the past, and I’m proud to be a part of it.


(via Blowback via Dack).


As Blowback points out, this was a mere 2 weeks after the bombing campaign in Afghanistan began on October 7.