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Robert Mueller
American
Public Servant
Born:
Aug 7
,
1944
Attack
Every
September
Think
Work
You
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I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil liberties and constitutional rights of all Americans, even Americans who don't wish us well. We must do all these things exceptionally well.
Robert Mueller
Terrorism
History
Rights
Will
Wish
All Americans
Liberties
Must
Civil
Civil Liberties
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Only
Exceptionally
Know
Protect
Well
Judged
How
American
Us
Who
Even
Things
Disrupt
Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life.
Robert Mueller
Life
Work
Integrity
Women
Behavior
Men
Men And Women
Our
Way
More
Motto
Than
Expectations
Bravery
Just
Fidelity
Standard
Set
Perimeter defense may not matter if the enemy is inside the gates.
Robert Mueller
Enemy
Matter
Defense
Inside
May
Gates
For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty.
Robert Mueller
Justice
Constitution
Trust
Women
Obligation
Equality
Liberty
Law
Men
Men And Women
Country
Duty
Most
Also
Faithfulness
Fidelity
Us
Means
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.
Robert Mueller
War
Women
Walk
Men
Mines
Following
He
Since
Said
Were
After
Centuries
Land
Asked
Many
Now
Why
You don't eat before your troops eat, and you don't ask your troops to do anything you won't do, too.
Robert Mueller
You
Before
Too
Eat
Troops
Anything
Ask
Your
I've always loved investigations.
Robert Mueller
Investigations
Always
Loved
So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.
Robert Mueller
Intelligence
Every
Our
Purpose
Foreign
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.
Robert Mueller
Judge
Met
Congress
Approving
We Cannot
Has-Been
Determining
Wire
Court
Without
Go
Been
Up
Order
Cannot
Forth
Standard
Search
Utilize
Techniques
Set
I love doing bank robberies, drug cases, homicides - as a prosecutor, that's what I thought I was going to be overseeing when I got to the bureau.
Robert Mueller
Love
Thought
Cases
Prosecutor
Got
Doing
Overseeing
Bureau
Going
Bank
We need to take lessons learned from fighting terrorism and apply them to cyber crime.
Robert Mueller
Terrorism
Crime
Fighting
Take
Learned
Them
Cyber
Lessons
Lessons Learned
Apply
Need
My admonition is, 'No counterterrorism lead goes uncovered.'
Robert Mueller
Lead
Uncovered
Counterterrorism
Goes
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.
Robert Mueller
You
Others
Analyst
Extrapolate
Those
Tell
Facts
Investigations
Partial
Always
Trying
Going
Where
Whether
Mean
Them
Agents
Interpret
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.
Robert Mueller
Day
You
People
Police
Single
Lost
September
Heroism
Our
Out
Firemen
New
Police Officers
Also
How
Context
Were
Person
Officers
York
So Many People
New York
Whether
Agents
Many
Acts
Lives
The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.
Robert Mueller
States
Attack
Principal
Protecting
Another
Terrorist
Terrorist Attack
Priority
Against
Now
United
United States
Right
In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.
Robert Mueller
Work
Terrorism
Relating
Interviews
States
Out
Collect
Investigative
Go
Mandate
Information
United
United States
Gather
Leaking of classified material is a concern.
Robert Mueller
Classified
Leaking
Concern
Material
If I have the honor of being confirmed by the Senate, I will make it my highest priority to restore the public's confidence in the FBI and to re-earn the faith and trust of the American people.
Robert Mueller
Faith
Confidence
Trust
People
Honor
Will
Restore
Highest
Highest Priority
Make
Priority
Senate
American
Being
Confirmed
Public
American People
Anyplace we go in the world, when someone asks us what we do, we feel an immense pride in saying, 'FBI.'
Robert Mueller
Saying
World
Pride
Immense
Someone
Feel
Go
Ask
Us
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.
Robert Mueller
Pilot
Everybody
Those
Attack
Bottom
Over
Principal
Came
Line
Were
Role
Commit
Sept
Who
Here
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.
Robert Mueller
Intelligence
Impossible
Difficult
Other
Share
Likewise
Prior
Passage
Very
Intelligence Agencies
Often
Patriot
Patriot Act
Information
Central
Them
Agencies
Agency
Us
Act
I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.
Robert Mueller
Best
You
World
Think
Our
Find
Collectors
Around
Information
Agents
I remember... seeing the first plane go into the towers and thinking: 'It's a beautiful day. Somebody really must have gotten off course to have the plane go into the towers.'
Robert Mueller
Beautiful
Day
Remember
Somebody
First
Thinking
Must
Seeing
Beautiful Day
Towers
Course
Gotten
Go
Off
Plane
Really
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.
Robert Mueller
You
Will
Differences
Every
Say
Those
Would
About
Facts
Investigation
Partial
Opinion
Just
Where
Mean
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.
Robert Mueller
You
Important
President
Relatively
Tell
Would
Investigation
Without
Been
Getting
Meaningful
Extent
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.
Robert Mueller
Before
More
Facts
Disagreements
Particular
Particular Set
Read
Unusual
Said
Than
Often
Mean
Set
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