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Robert Mueller Biography

Robert Swan Mueller III (/ˈmʌlər/; born August 7, 1944) is an American attorney who served as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2001 to 2013. A Republican, he was appointed by President George W. Bush; President Barack Obama gave his original ten-year term a two-year extension, making him the longest-serving FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover. He is currently head of the Special Counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and related matters.

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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.

Attack, Hijackers, Lines, Pilots, Principal, Roles

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.

Agency, Break, Down, Passed, People, Wall

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Persons, Planning, Roles, Various

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.

Approving, Court, Judging, Order, Standard, Wire

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat.

Cyber, Eclipse, Terrorist, Threat

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

Agents, Think, Thinking, World

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

Against, Priorities, Priority, Terrorist, United States

In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.

Crime, Law, Numbers, Together, Violent, Years

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.

Agency, America, Number, Numbers, Table, United

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

Able, Convince, Optimism, Optimistic, Pessimism

There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again.

Categories, Companies, Hacked, Two, Type, Types

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.

Briefed, Important, Meaningful, President

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.

Agent, Agents, Clerk, Clerks, Computer, September 11

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Ahead, Burmese, Land, Said, War, Women

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

Classified, Concern, Leaking, Material, Materials

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

Efficiently, Giving, Job, Jobs, Technology

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.

Bureau, Center, Numbers, Office, Somebody, Thinking

I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.

Fbi, Knows, Organization, Thing, Tremendously

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

Act, Agency, Difficult, Information, Nsa, Share

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.

Excessively, Focused, Law, Thinking, Years

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