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...When Bob Mueller took the helm of the Justice Department's criminal division in 1990, his subordinates liked to tease him about his Ivy-League roots, his stiffly formal public persona and the pressed blue jeans that were his idea of dressed-down for Saturdays in the office. His high WASP name - Robert Swan Mueller III - spawned the nickname "Bobby Three Sticks...
...there's nothing bland or diffident about Mueller's sharp, commanding style, formed on the hockey rinks of St. Paul's and Princeton and as a Marine officer on the front line in Vietnam. Confronted with a range of high-profile cases, from the BCCI bank fraud scandal to the Pan Am 103 terrorism investigation, he proved so decisive and careless of controversy that at one point, his deputy Dave Margolis warned him gently that if he didn't choose his battles, Washington might bang him up as it had done to so many of his predecessors...
...Mueller fixed Margolis with his icy blues. "I don't," he said, "bruise easily...
Though there's no shortlist yet, names under review by the White House counsel's office include U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller of San Francisco, who assisted Ashcroft until Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson was sworn in last week; George Terwilliger, No. 2 at Justice in the first Bush Administration and a lawyer for W. during the Florida recount; Stephen Trott, a federal appellate judge and former Reagan Administration Justice Department official; and Ronald Noble, who currently leads Interpol. Choosing Noble, an African American, would help silence criticism that the bureau remains a conservative-white-male bastion...
...Robert Mueller: Mueller served in both the Bush I and Clinton administrations, he was a U.S. attorney in Boston during the Reagan administration, and made his mark prosecuting corruption cases. He has impressed careerists in the FBI and at the Justice Department with his intellectual courage and his passion for public service. He is a patrician, an Ivy Leaguer who?s very smart very high-minded and idealistic. He?s also a decorated Vietnam War hero. Before Ashcroft?s confirmation, Mueller was essentially running the Justice Department as the acting deputy Attorney General. If there were a department-wide vote...