Robert Mueller Quotes

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• The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.
• 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…
• They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the…
• 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.…
• 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…
• In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and…
• So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.
• But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.
• 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…
• In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat,
• But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused…
• Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence…
• I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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