Defense attorney Thomas Durkin:
"There’s hysteria in this country still over 9/11 and this fear-mongering that goes on. And I submit to you that one of the reasons that these kinds of cases get brought and some of the domestic terrorism cases you see in federal court are brought in my opinion as I way to justify this national security industrial-complex that has grown up around 9/11 and the trillions of dollars that have been spent. That’s something that I think the citizenry needs to consider."