Robert Mueller
Robert Mueller
Robert Swan Mueller IIIis an American lawyer. He served as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth7 August 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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order judging wire
We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.
lines pilots roles
The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role.
wall agency people
People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.
purpose warrants
So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.
law effort september-11
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.
new-york people police
In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.
squad fbi-agents police
I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.
information interviews united-states
In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.
optimistic optimism able
No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.
meaningful president important
So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.
numbers america agency
What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.
confidence america people
The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.
thinking numbers office
I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.
justice support agents
And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.