Word: mueller
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...This disturbing story is told in a 13-page, single-spaced letter written to FBI Director Robert Mueller by Colleen Rowley. The letter, portions of which TIME magazine has obtained, chronicle the efforts of Rowley, the Minneapolis Chief Division Counsel, to get the FBI interested in Moussaoui. Moussaoui was arrested in August on a visa violation after the Minnesota flight school at which the French national was taking lessons notified the FBI about his suspicious behavior...
...government has said that our banks, apartment buildings and New York City landmarks could soon be terror targets. Further terror strikes are "inevitable," warns Vice President Dick Cheney. Americans should brace themselves for suicide bombings of the kind that have become commonplace in Israeli cities, warns FBI director Robert Mueller. And it's inevitable that, sooner or later, the terrorists will get access to weapons of mass destruction, according to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...director Robert Mueller and top Justice officials have spent days debating whether to move for another postponement. Meanwhile, Hanssen is undergoing his most intensive probing yet, at the hands of a CIA damage assessment team that includes psychiatrists and interrogation specialists practiced at dealing with traitors' complex psychological subterfuges. Hanssen is said to have lost weight and appears more stooped than ever, but sources say flashes of the old arrogance show: he has complained recently that the press is overplaying his sexual obsessions - by reporting on his pornographic writings, which he posted...
...prompted a series of White House meetings and secure teleconferences among top Bush appointees, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, CIA director George Tenet and homeland security director Tom Ridge, as well as senior career officials at the Pentagon, FBI and CIA. (FBI director Bob Mueller was in San Francisco; executive assistant director Dale Watson and counter-terrorism division chief Pat D'Amuro represented the FBI at the White House sessions...
...Immediately after Hanssen was arrested, 700 FBI employees were polygraphed, including Mueller himself. ("Nobody likes taking a polygraph," he told reporters. "I didn't particularly enjoy taking a polygraph.") Roughly 7 employees failed to pass the polygraphs. They haven't been fired or disciplined, but Senser says they are being subjected to further investigation. Now Mueller is considering ordering several thousand more FBI employees to go on the box. But he won't force preventive polygraphs on all 28,000 FBI employees, all of whom have at least Top Secret clearance, in part because he, like most career FBI executives...