In 1999 , Klein joined 60 Minutes as a staff producer . In 2000 he and Mike Wallace reported on the threat posed by unsecured smallpox virus samples , and on September 5 , 2001 , their report won a News and Documentary Emmy . After 9/11 , Klein went on to work with Wallace covering the aftermath of the terrorist attacks . Their interview with Secretary of Health Tommy Thompson , in which Thompson insisted the country was completely safe from any biological attack , led to a Senate hearing about US biowarfare preparedness . Klein was one of the first network magazine producers to travel to Iraq after the invasion and , working with correspondent Bob Simon , he secured the first and to-date , only Western TV interview with the Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr
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September 11 attacks
Peter W. Klein