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...After President Bush's defeat in 1992, Mueller accepted a partnership in the blue-chip Boston law firm of Hale and Doar. To the surprise of his former associates, in 1995 he applied for a position in the homicide section of the U.S. Attorney's office in the District of Columbia. This was a huge comedown for a man who had supervised 900 Justice Department prosecutors, but Margolis says Mueller was caught up in the idealism of public service, explaining, "There's just too many young people dying violently in this city, and I want to do my share...
...Meanwhile, his wife Ann was a teacher specializing in helping children with learning problems at a private school in Washington. Mueller became chief of the U.S. Attorney's office's homicide section where his reputation as a passionate prosecutor came to the attention of Janet Reno, who in 1998 asked him to go to San Francisco to beef up the U.S. Attorney's office, which was then beset by burgeoning computer crime...
...Early this year, the Bush transition team asked Mueller to return to Washington temporarily to serve as acting Deputy Attorney General - the day to day chief operating officer of the Justice Department - until Larry Thompson could be confirmed as the permanent Deputy. "He worked with a number of people in Justice and gained their confidence as someone who was capable of running the FBI and also someone who the department could work with," says Thompson...
...Thompson says Ashcroft's team was especially impressed by Mueller's extraordinary 1995 decision to abandon a lucrative private practice to take obscure murder cases in DC's hellish Superior Court. "He's not a person who's all that concerned about his ego," says Thompson. "He doesn't need to have a high-profile position to determine his self-worth...
...Mueller will be tested as never before. The FBI director exercises immense power over countless lives, and he enjoys perks unusual even in Washington. Unlike most office-holders, the director can confine himself on the seventh floor of the FBI building for months at a time, making only rare, carefully controlled appearances on Capitol Hill. Mueller will be faced with the task of fixing the problems that got the FBI into the McVeigh and Hanssen messes, while repairing the bureau's flagging morale...