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...Since then, the tough, intense 56-year-old career prosecutor, now U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, has won many admirers, like Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, who calls him "a straight-shooter, very professional - a guy who knows what he's talking about." He also has his share of detractors. One lawyer who worked for Mueller at Justice calls him "a bit of a martinet." Another says he let subordinates know the rule was "my way or the highway...
...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...
RELEASED. ROBERT THOMPSON and JON VENABLES, both 18, having served eight years in a children's unit for torturing and killing two-year-old James Bulger in 1993; in London. Their shocking crime--at age 10, the two youths lured James from a shopping center and laid him on railway tracks where a train cut him in half--prompted a nationwide debate over whether they should be paroled. They will be given new identities...
...Mark Thompson: This is the treading-water addition to the 2001 budget. There's no indication of any radical transformations whatsoever, and for that, the time to seize the moment has clearly passed...