The FBI’s principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack. Robert Mueller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’ll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make. Robert Mueller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Robert Mueller Read Quote
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. Robert Mueller Read Quote
