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23 Aug 4:07 am
The Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller, III has accused
Scotland's Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, of "making a mockery of the rule of law" in ... of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988. Director Mueller
goes on in his letter to Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, to heavily criticise him for ... and law enforcement agencies over his plan to release Al Megrahi. Director Mueller
then goes onto claim that Kenny MacAskill's actions "give comfort to ...
11 Mar, 2007 7:58 am
... guessing wrong could yield dire eternal consequences. FBI director Robert S. Mueller,III,
is a Pascalian. Has the FBI violated the law, obtaining confidential information about ... been harmed. No lives have been upended. No businesses disrupted. Mueller accepts
responsibility for the errors and then shrugs. There has been no ... required to keep track of each and every one of us. "How could this happen?" Mueller asked rhetorically in a
briefing at FBI headquarters. We let it happen, that's how. Why ...
18 May 11:31 am
... among others) former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert S. Mueller III, for creating, implementing and condoning what he endured. As we stated ... those parameters in mind, two lower courts had ruled that Ashcroft and
Mueller should be subject to suit. Today, however, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed, ... David Souter wrote a scathing dissent, observing that, "at a bare minimum … Ashcroft and
Mueller knew of and condoned the discriminatory policy their subordinates carried out," and ...
17 Oct, 2007 7:17 am
... ), and, most dramatically, terrorism and national security cases (876 percent). FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has signaled a desire to reinvigorate the department's emphasis on traditional crime-fighting. 'We are realizing that national security is as much about
reducing the number of homicides on our streets as it is about reducing the threat of terrorism,' Mueller said Monday in New Orleans at the International Association of Chiefs of
Police convention. 'Today, in pockets around the ...
20 May 8:52 am
... Iqbal who was never charged with any 9/11-related terrorism, but nevertheless, suffered inhumane treatment in federal prison for months, and sought to hold former Attorney General
John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert S. Mueller III accountable for his injuries. Well, the
Monday morning court wonks are now starting to weigh in on the matter-and they're making some pretty disturbing observations (here, here, here). In a nutshell…what ...
9 Jan 6:04 am
... authorized, approved or committed war crimes is currently being prepared. While the complaint is in preparation, the Steering Committee of the Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference is issuing this preliminary memorandum setting forth several of the points to be presented more ... they were seeing, and fearful
that they would be implicated, the FBI agents left Guantanamo. FBI Director Mueller then barred FBI agents from participating in coercive CIA interrogations, a warning-fact well
known to many ...
26 Mar, 2007 5:35 am
... fraud in other cities show some of the factors are involved.* "In Detroit, Michigan, Special FBI Agent, Daniel D. Roberts (stating that mortgage fraud is an escalating
problem) and U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Murphy investigated and charged ... F. King on mortgage fraud charges. Further, Senate Intelligence Committee, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Director Robert Mueller III has extensive intelligence on the subject. "Pervasive instances of
mortgage fraud have been discovered in Arizona, California ...
28 Dec, 2006 6:29 am
... one exercise because they missed a subtlety in the instructions. 'The competitive mentality is hard to break,' Professor Leigh Thompson said. The program was started three years ago
by FBI Director Robert Mueller III. Most senior headquarters staffers and top agents from the
56 field offices have ... weeklong courses, which cost the bureau about $3 million a year. The training has been one of Mueller's main efforts to bring fresh thinking into the
bureau, though some FBI officials ...
15 May, 2007 4:48 am
... House nevertheless continued with the program anyway, despite DOJ's judgment that it was unlawful; (iii) that Comey, Ashcroft, the head of
the FBI (Robert Mueller) and several other DOJ officials therefore threatened to resign; (iv) that ... happened then? COMEY: I went to
the Oval Office -- as I did every morning as acting attorney general -- with Director Mueller to brief the president and the vice president on what was going on on Justice
Department's counterterrorism work. We had the briefing. ...
17 Mar 12:15 am
... the FBI was uncomfortable about the leads generated by the NSA program: As the bureau was running down those leads [in 2001], its director, Robert S. Mueller III, raised concerns about the legal rationale for a program of eavesdropping without
warrants, one government official said. Mr. Mueller asked senior administration officials about 'whether the program had a proper legal foundation,' but deferred to Justice
Department legal opinions, the ...
4 Aug 11:16 am
... /11-related terrorism, but nevertheless was subjected to all sorts of horrible treatment over the course of several months, and ultimately attempted to sue former Attorney General
John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert S. Mueller III for masterminding the whole fiasco. You
may recall that the Supremes, in a 5-4 decision, disallowed the suit because, said the majority, Iqbal neglected to present "concrete" factual evidence of his claim at the ...
9 Aug, 2008 6:49 am
When Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, was buzzed by his secretary that Robert S. Mueller III was on the line, I bet he was nervous. A call from the FBI is everybody's second least favorite call. No need to mention ... having to ask anyone's
permission. "Trust us," they said. "We're from the government." You have to admit, the fact that Mueller not only admitted that it happened, but apologized for it, is a step in
the right direction. But only a baby step. The fact remains that ...
19 Nov, 2007 9:57 am
... number of cases, the experts had made false matches based on a faulty statistical analysis of the elements contained in different lead samples, documents show. "We cannot afford to
be misleading to a jury," the lab director wrote to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III in late
summer 2005 in a memo outlining why the bureau was abandoning the science. "We plan to discourage prosecutors from using our previous results ...
16 Sep, 2008 1:06 am
What will the Nigerian scammers think up next? From: Robert Swan Mueller III
<fbi@fbigov.org> Subject: ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONITORY CRIMES DIVISION To: Date: Monday, September 15, 2008, 4:05 PM ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONITORY CRIMES DIVISION FBI ... Justice.
Note that the F.B.I will not stop at any length in tracking down and prosecuting any individual who indulge in this criminal act. Faithfully Your's, ROBERT MUELLER DIRECTOR, WASHINGTON DC FBI.
9 Mar, 2007 6:55 am
... . And the report found that the bureau does not follow some of the rules it does have on the matter. Robert S. Mueller
III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, called a news conference today to accept responsibility for the lapses, and to pledge
his best efforts to see that they are not repeated. "How could this happen?" Mr. Mueller asked rhetorically. "Who is to be held accountable? And the answer to that is, I am to be
held accountable." Under the USA Patriot Act, the ...
16 Aug, 2007 3:05 pm
... to persuade him, as the Attorney General, to sign an extension for warrantless domestic eavesdropping on Americans, according to notes made by Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the F.B.I. Mr. Mueller's notes of his visit to Mr. Ashcroft's
hospital room provide another eyewitness account of the dramatic confrontation over the secret surveillance program. They confirm an account of the encounter given by ...
20 May, 2008 10:03 am
... and simulated drowning or waterboarding-repeatedly created friction between FBI agents and military leaders. FBI Director Robert S.
Mueller III has stressed that the bureau prefers to build rapport with detainees as the most effective way of eliciting accurate
information from them. In congressional testimony last month, Mueller hinted that the FBI's hands were tied in part by opinions from the Justice Department's Office of Legal
Counsel, which ...
18 Sep, 2008 10:38 am
... he is the only person involved in this attack on Congress and the American people," Leahy told FBI Director Robert S. Mueller
III at a hearing yesterday. "I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or accessories after the fact. I ... ." Noting
that GOP senator and former prosecutor Arlen Specter joined Leahy in aggressively discounting the FBIs claims, telling Mueller that the case wouldn't pass muster in a criminal
trial, Glenn Greenwald at Salon summed up the import of the ...
7 Dec, 2006 6:11 am
... in government corruption cases over the past two years, including hundreds of crooked police officers and others who have dipped into the taxpayers' till, FBI Director
Robert S. Mueller III told the Senate Judiciary Committee, reports the Washington Post. The
numbers underscore the extent ... of corruption surrounding former lobbyist Jack Abramoff that led to guilty pleas from former congressman Robert W. Ney (R-Oh) and a separate investigation that led to a guilty plea from former ...
20 Jun, 2008 10:46 am
... of the near $1 trillion in losses worldwide that have been chalked up to the U.S. mortgage fiasco." "FBI Director Robert S. Mueller
III said the number of cases of possible mortgage fraud the bureau was investigating had doubled in the last three years to more than 1,400 as
of May 31. Robert Gnaizda of the Greenlining Institute in Berkeley said he feared the government would seek to make examples of mortgage
brokers when the true culprits were ...
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