A week before. He was sworn in 9/4/01.
Get a load of this Louis Freeh interview:
"FBI Director Louis Freeh Holds News Briefing on USS Cole Investigation in Aden, Yemen
Aired October 19, 2000
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/19/bn.01.html
""...QUESTION: Do we even now know or have a pretty good idea of what group or what individuals, which individuals, planned the bombing. And do you either know or have a pretty good idea who carried out the bombing attack?
FREEH: No we don't. And I've been really cautioning everyone against that. It is much too early in the case to have come to that kind of a conclusion. We have some theories, as you almost have to have when you begin an investigation of this kind, but the determination with respect to participation, sponsorship, if any, will be strictly delegated by the facts, by the forensics, witnesses that are developed, linkages to other places or persons. But we are very, very far from doing that and are really looking at this with a very open mind at this point."