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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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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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.
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I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.
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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.
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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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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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For us, it is not just having a terrorist event happening and then gathering the evidence to put it in a courtroom to convict somebody after we're able to identify him, detain him and extradite him.
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Given the circumstance in New York, the protocols relating to our handling of informants changed dramatically.
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Four thousand agents are still assigned to portions of the investigation, are still following leads to determine whether or not there are any associates, financial supporters or others who are still in the United States.
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As it is all over the country, you have instances of people taking matters into their own hands.
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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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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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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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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.