Pamela Smith

The reason that we're thanking each other to the extent that we are today is because we have seen in this case an incredible collaboration around the clock in the middle of the night.

It doesn't matter.

We call each other.

We make contact.

They need a warrant.

They need something.

Someone wants legal advice.

These are the men and women who never give it up.

You hear about government employees, but I don't know if you really realize what it is that they do.

They are incredible.

And this case is big.

Four years, 10 months, and 28 days ago, an individual placed a bomb in the vicinity of both the RNC and the DNC.

And for that amount of time, that individual evaded accountability.

Today, as a result of the cumulative efforts of the men and women in the FBI and the police department and the Department of Justice, we are finally able to make an arrest of an individual by the name of Brian Cole.

As the Attorney General has indicated, he is arrested for transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce, as well as the attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials.

You know, folks, this case involved millions of pieces of data, and it is a huge win because it was like finding a needle in a haystack.

So much of this evidence

was very specific, but a lot of it was also very general.

For example, there were 233,000 black end caps of the type that were used in this case.

I want you to think about the fact that the FBI had to go through the sale of every one of them to try to find commonality with an individual, along with the purchase of the pipe itself, the cap ends, the wires, the steel, and the 9-volt batteries.