Robert Swan Mueller III Quotes

• Leaking of classified material is a concern.

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• 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.

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• It’s because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.

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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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• So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

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• 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.

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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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• They’re – FBI agents are some of the finest people you’ll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I’m lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

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• There’ll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

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

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Robert Swan Mueller III (34)

Birth:	7th August, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director

About

Mueller was born in 1944 in New York City, the son of Alice C. and Robert Swan Mueller. He grew up outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A 1962 graduate of St. Paul's School, he went on to receive an B.A. from Princeton University in 1966, an M.A. in international relations from New York University in 1967, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1973.

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