I broke up the wall of text to make it easier to digest:

O’Neill’s New York FBI team was at the center of bureacratic arm-wrestling over who would head the 1998 investigation into the embassy bombings in East Africa.

O’Neill again was the focus of a heated political battle over the investigation of the 2000 attack against the USS Cole in Yemen.

Current and former government officials such as Richard Clarke, counterterrorism chief in the Clinton administration and Barry Mawn, former head of the New York FBI office, recount how O’Neill’s desire to show the Yemeni security forces – which he viewed as being less than cooperative – that the FBI meant business was one of many issues in the investigation which angered U.S. Ambassador Barbara Bodine.

Finally, when O’Neill made a brief trip home to New York for Thanksgiving, Bodine denied his re-entry visa, preventing him from returning to the investigation. Insiders tell FRONTLINE that O’Neill’s removal from the scene in Yemen may have seriously limited the Cole investigation – an inquiry that some speculate might have led O’Neill to the Sept. 11 hijackers in time to foil their plans

Source: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/synopsis.html

Anyway, I also like hugs when I’m sad and/or mad.