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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As it is all over the country, you have instances of people taking matters into their own hands.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.