Robert Swan Mueller III (born August 7, 1944) served as the sixth Director of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Read full biography of Robert Mueller →
In planning an attack, persons have various roles.
The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to... →
Leaking of classified material is a concern.
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.
I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.
Robert Swan Mueller III (born August 7, 1944) served as the sixth Director of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).