I didn’t know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it’s tremendously professional. Robert Mueller Read Quote
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 bringing to justice those who were responsible for this. Robert Mueller Read Quote
What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas. Robert Mueller Read Quote
But we had – I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States. Robert Mueller Read Quote
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. Robert Mueller Read Quote
I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you’ll find. Robert Mueller Read Quote
We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously. Robert Mueller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like, and that’s why I became a prosecutor. Robert Mueller Read Quote
