Editing John P. O'Neill (section)

===2000===
After being passed over for multiple promotions (to assistant director in charge of national security in 1999 and to head of the FBI's New York office in early 2000<ref name=NewYorker/>), O'Neill was pleased to be assigned as commander of the FBI's investigation into the [[USS Cole bombing|USS ''Cole'' bombing]] in October 2000. However, upon arriving in [[Yemen]], he complained about inadequate security. As his team investigated, O'Neill came into conflict with [[Barbara Bodine]], the U.S. ambassador to Yemen. The two had widely divergent views on how to handle searches of Yemeni property, and interviews with citizens and government officials, and they only grew further apart as time progressed.<ref name=Kolker/>

After two months in Yemen, O'Neill returned to New York. He hoped to go back to Yemen to continue the investigation, but was blocked by Bodine and others; the dispute made the US press.<ref name=Kolker/> Following threats against the remaining FBI investigators, FBI Director Freeh withdrew the team, on O'Neill's recommendation, in June 2001.<ref name=NewYorker/>