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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september-11 clerks agents
And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.
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I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.
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But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.
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We do have investigations going. Leaking of classified materials is a concern for those agencies that have classified materials.
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We are not facing these outlaws on our own. No person, no agency, no company, indeed no country can prevent crime on its own.
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Today, a command sent over a network to a power station's control computer could be just as deadly as a backpack full of explosives,
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What all of us in the FBI - it's not just me - all of us in the FBI are concerned about is protecting American people against another attack.
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In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
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As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.
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If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.
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Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have.
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And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.