It's Because We Need To

I Would Say In Just About Every Investigation We Have, There Will Be Differences Of Opinion, Where You Have Partial Facts, As To What Those Facts Mean.

And From The Moment That We Realized It Was A Terrorist Attack, There Isn't An Agent Or A Support Person In The Fbi That Wasn't Committed To Bringing To Justice Those Who Were Responsible For This.

I Was In My Office When - On 9/11. I Think I Had A Number Of Meetings Scheduled. I Was Just Getting To Know The Bureau. And Somebody Walked In And Said The First Plane Had - Or A Plane Had Struck The World Trade Center, One Of The Towers.

And So Every One Of Us In The Fbi, I Don't Care If It's A File Clerk Someplace Or An Agent There Or A Computer Specialist, Understands That Our Main Mission Is To Protect The Public From Another September 11, Another Terrorist Attack.

In The United States, It's The Mandate Of The Fbi To Gather Information Relating To Terrorism, Go Out And Collect It, To Do The Interviews, To Do The Investigative Work.