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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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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As it is all over the country, you have instances of people taking matters into their own hands.
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The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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We do have investigations going. Leaking of classified materials is a concern for those agencies that have classified materials.
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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.