Political Quotes

“That graphic you just showed from 9/11 in New York vividly reminds me of that day, and my cousin was on the 91st floor of the north tower. He was one of the lucky ones. He got out. Everybody above him was killed, and all 11 people on his floor made it out, and it was a harrowing experience which I won't go through here tonight. But we should also remember an article that was written by a woman named Debra Burlingame. She wrote this editorial in The Wall Street Journal a few years ago, and she talked about the fact that there were two individuals in this country before 9/11 that FBI agent you referred to earlier was concerned about. He was concerned about those individuals, and for whatever reason, nobody in the FBI was prepared to go to the FISA Court to go on a nationwide manhunt for these two individuals. Didn't happen until the afternoon of September 11, 2001. And those two individuals that Debra Burlingame wrote about, who we were so concerned about, who were operating out of San Diego, who were making phone calls to Yemen into a switchboard run by the brother-in-law of one of those two individuals, bin Laden would call into that switchboard himself.…”