Department of Justice Seal  Speech* of Deputy Attorney General
at the Economic Club of Florida Tallahassee, Florida Thursday -
May 2, 2002       1. It is a pleasure to be back in Florida
again and an honor to address this prestigious organization.
2. One of my sons attended Florida A&M University-so I have been
in Tallahassee as a parent and spending money as an out-of-state
parent from Georgia rather freely.      3. I also recently had
the great privilege of arguing a case before the United States
Supreme Court-U.S. v. Drayton-that involved the fine work of the
Tallahassee Police Department and the United States Attorney's
Office for the Northern District of Florida.      4. I want to
turn directly to the topic that consumes most of my energies at
the Justice Department and about which I know that you are all
deeply concerned: America's global battle against terrorism and
the Department's role in the war.        1. After the terrorist
attacks of September 11, we all pulled together to support each
other