[WaterDragon]

Will do. The article mentions that she blocked the entry of a specific FBI agent. Wonder what that was about?

Actually, Bodine is despised by the Left, has worked for Republican administrations. Still, I'd like to know more about her, too.

[Amalie]

The agent was none other than John O'Neill, the New York FBI guy who vainly warned that Osama was coming for years prior to the attack. He put together a lot of the pieces of the puzzle before finally getting so fed up with the FBI's internal politics that he quit in mid-2001. He took over security at the World Trade Center and died shortly after later when it collapsed. He was also reprimanded for the misplacement of a security breifcase during the final year of the Clintons while Louie Freeh was under fire. Regardless, the treatment he got from Bodine in Yemen was enough to make me me very wary of anything she might be involved in, regardless of her political affiliations...

[Drammach]

CNN article, dated 8-31-2001;

FBI to resume Cole probe in Yemen

The USS Cole was damaged in a bombing last October that killed 17 U.S. sailors.

By Andrea Koppel
CNN Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After an absence of more than three months, FBI investigators are expected to return to Yemen as soon as next week to resume their investigation into last year's bombing of the USS Cole, a senior administration source tells CNN.

An advance team from the FBI, consisting of "technical folks," are now in Yemen to pave the way for next week's arrival of FBI agents after the long holiday weekend.

Earlier this month, the FBI and the State Department reached a tentative agreement on security arrangements for FBI investigators working in Yemen.

The FBI pulled all of its investigators out of Yemen in June after a dispute between the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, Barbara Bodine, and the FBI's lead supervisor of the investigation, John O'Neill, who wanted permission for his agents to carry heavier weapons in Yemen due to "specific and credible" security threats.

When Bodine denied O'Neill's request, saying that FBI investigators would be protected by the same diplomatic security rules as agents who guard U.S. diplomats at the U.S. Embassy, the FBI suspended its operation in Yemen.

In recent weeks, teams from the FBI, the U.S. Navy and the State Department have been meeting in Washington and in Yemen to try to work out a compromise acceptable to all parties.