Political Quotes

“I rise today to acknowledge the extraordinary work of Arthur M. Cummings II, who has served with distinction for more than 20 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Cummings was appointed on January 9, 2008 as executive assistant director of the FBI's National Security branch. In that position, Mr. Cummings worked diligently to oversee the FBI's counterterrorism, counterintelligence, weapons of mass destruction and intelligence programs, as well as the Terrorist Screening Center. His outstanding work leading the FBI in the coordination and liaison with the U.S. Director of National Intelligence and the rest of the Intelligence community contributed greatly to the FBI and the entire intelligence field. Mr. Cummings brought to the job a wealth of investigative and managerial experience. Since becoming an FBI special agent in 1987, Mr. Cummings was assigned to five field offices and to the Counterterrorism Division at FBI headquarters. He managed counterterrorism, counterintelligence, violent crimes and drug programs in several field offices, and had deployed overseas to support several major counterterrorism investigations.”