We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.

What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.

I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.