Barbara Bodine, US Ambassador to Yemen from 1997 to 2001 and now at the Kennedy School, was on Open Source on November 29, 2005 to discuss Iraq exit strategies on the show What John Murtha Wrought.
Barabra Bodine - Ambassador to Yemen during USS Cole attack Bodine , who is Jewish is the ambassador for Yemen. When the USS Cole was attacked the FBI sent a team led by John O’Neill who immediately suspected Israel. Bodine started an intense political battle to oust O’Neill. Bodine wanted to control the investigation and resented the fact that suddenly there were hundreds of FBI personnel in the country . Then January 2001 comes, and O'Neill wants to go back to Yemen. But Ambassador Bodine wouldn't give him clearance. In July 2001 O’Neill resigns from the FBI.