Larry Klayman: We are joined right now by a great American hero, someone who should have been on Time Magazine's cover along with Colleen Raleigh, the FBI agent who was nominated for Time Magazine person of the year, Robert Wright. Tell us basically what your "shtick" is. I mean, what did you tell the American people about in terms of the FBI?

Special Agent Robert Wright: Oh, basically that the September 11 attacks was just a direct result of the failure of the FBI's International Terrorism Unit. We've been trying to tell the truth about what went on and why it was allowed to happen, but the Bureau has tried to silence me and to keep my manuscript and everything else out of the public's eye and even Congress. They've refused to turn documents over to Congress that would help them understand more. So now the main thing is to try to get the truth out there.

Klayman: In our book, Fatal Neglect, we talk about some of the things that you've said publicly. We adopt your recommendations that there should be a separate agency that's involved in fighting terrorism and that's starting to catch hold even on Capital Hill. What are your thoughts in a super-counter terrorism agency? What should it comprise?

Wright: It should not be strictly an intelligence agency. I believe it should be an agency that collects all the intelligence. A lot of the intelligence is still out there, just collecting dust that nobody really knows about. All of that intelligence should be turned over to this new agency. They should have plenty of analysts to go through and start putting the pictures together. But you also need to have a place, additional teams that can go out and take these people down. We should either get criminal charges on them, just lock them up or get them out of the country. A lot of them have already gotten citizenship so we need to strip them of that citizenship based upon the oath that they took to the allegiance to the United States. Again, it shouldn't just be collecting intelligence. That's where it all fell apart. That's why we have the problems we have now, because that's all the FBI did.

Klayman: The point you made, in terms of collecting information, was that the whole idea was to have it so we can arrest people after there's been a terrorist attack.

Wright: The goals were to identify and neutralize the threats. Well, we never neutralized the threats and we let them build a financial fortune not only here, but abroad, to finance international terrorism leading to the death of American citizens. We need to stop this and we saw this in 1994, brought it to the attention of my supervisor back then. I even said, "You know, what are we doing? We're just collecting intelligence so that, when the bombs go off, we look good because we know who to go out and pick up?" And you know, the response was, "Yeah, I guess so," and turned around and walked away. I was yelling, "That's not right!" But that's how it was.

Klayman: You deserve a lot of credit for trying to warn your supervisors. You tried to alert the American people, but no one listened.

Wright: Well, they did, but what happened was in '98 after the embassies were hit, he [Clinton] gives the order to send those missiles over to the campsite.

Klayman: Of course, little to nothing else.

Wright: And once that happens, I remember thinking we must take this guy out now. He's going to attack American soil because earlier in '97 he tells Peter Arnett with CNN eventually this is going to come to American soil, but before those missiles hit the campsite, he's content with going ahead and hitting the U. S. military abroad, and he went to the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and the U.S.S. Cole, and things like that. I figured he'd come to New York or Washington. There's no way in the world I would have predicted four planes in one day, but I figured New York because he had unfinished business with the World Trade Center Towers, but then also some of his friends were on trial there for past terrorist attacks. But, the reason for Washington was the military carried out the attack, and the Pentagon in Washington.

Klayman: I want to switch to another topic. A New York Times reporter recently made the statement that Saudi Arabia is our ally. What are your views on that?

Wright: I'm deeply concerned, especially seeing money coming in from Saudi Arabia, from Yassin Kadi and others.

Klayman: Tell us who Yassin Kadi is.

Wright: Yassin Kadi is an individual who we were pursuing here in Chicago. We seized $1.4 million linked directly back to him in 1998 and we always were concerned that he was possibly linked to Osama bin Laden. We requested that headquarters be looking into this guy and we just never got a response back. It seemed like nobody cared, but then three weeks after the attack, the U.S. Government designated him a financier of Osama bin Laden.

Klayman: On Primetime Live last week they actually interviewed Yassin Kadi. Seems a little smug, isn't he?

Wright: Yes, he does. With respect to the freezing of the assets, he wanted to be a little arrogant to the reporter. He said, "Well, come with me." And he took them down to an ATM machine or something and he showed how easy it was for him to get money, even though, allegedly, his assets are all frozen.

Klayman: Well, that tells you something about Saudi Arabia.

Wright: Yeah, sure does.

Klayman: Bob has written a book he's trying to get published. We actually have a lawsuit to force the FBI to let it be published because we¹ve done things by, quote "the book." Right?

Wright: Right.

Klayman: You know, the irony here is I think Colleen Raleigh did what she had to do and she should be congratulated, but she did not go by the book and she winds up Time Magazine's person of the year.

Wright: Oh, I'm not, that doesn't bother me.

Klayman: I think you should be there with her.

Wright: But you know all along that this wasn't about money and this wasn't about trying to get my name up there or anything. I'd rather do it another way without me having to go out there and do it this way, sure.

Klayman: You love the FBI. People shouldn't take your constructive criticism otherwise.

Wright: Right. I mean, there are serious problems and they need to be addressed and that's what I'm trying to have addressed.