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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All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.
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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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I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
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In Australia, a computer hacker used a laptop and a two-way radio to hack into a sewage control computer system, releasing more than 250 tons of raw sewage onto the grounds of a luxury resort hotel,
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Convergence is not a trend, it's a necessity. To maintain a competitive lead in exotic technologies takes a lot, so a lot of key devices are driven by the consumer market because that market offers the kind of scale necessary for profits.
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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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Maintaining a code of silence will not benefit you or your company in the long run. Our safely lies not only in protecting our own interest, but our critical infrastructure as a whole.
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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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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.
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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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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.