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15 May 2017, 7:33 am by Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittes
Can you imagine if President Obama, instead of nominating a Republican former senior Justice Department official—Comey—to replace another Republican luminary who ran the FBI under him, Robert Mueller, had appointed Chuck Schumer or Richard Durbin? [read post]
10 May 2017, 12:13 pm by Scott Bomboy
(Robert Mueller was re-confirmed under a consent agreement in 2011 and didn’t have a second set of hearings.) [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 4:00 am by Ronda Muir
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, lawyer Colleen Rowley, who was Chief Division Counsel to the FBIs Minneapolis field office, wrote an analysis for then FBI Director Robert Mueller documenting how FBI headquarters personnel in Washington, D.C., had mishandled and failed to take action on information provided by the Minneapolis office regarding its investigation of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, which information she… [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 4:00 am by Ronda Muir
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, lawyer Colleen Rowley, who was Chief Division Counsel to the FBIs Minneapolis field office, wrote an analysis for then FBI Director Robert Mueller documenting how FBI headquarters personnel in Washington, D.C., had mishandled and failed to take action on information provided by the Minneapolis office regarding its investigation of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, which information she… [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 3:12 am by Scott Bomboy
That has happened only once since then, in 2011, when Congress passed a law to allow Robert S. [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 2:00 am by Scott Bomboy
That has happened only once since then, in 2011, when Congress passed a law to allow Robert S. [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 7:56 am by The Federalist Society
The defendants included high-level officials in the Department of Justice (DOJ) such as Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI director Robert Mueller, and Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner James Ziglar, as well various detention officials. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 7:00 am by Darren E. Tromblay
Under then-Director Robert Mueller III, it presented itself as a bifurcated intelligence and law enforcement organization. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 2:06 pm by Amy Howe
Representing former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft and former FBI director Robert Mueller, Gershengorn focused primarily on whether the detainees could hold the senior government officials individually liable in a federal lawsuit for damages for alleged violations of their constitutional rights – known as a “Bivens” remedy. [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 7:56 am by Jonathan Hafetz
Plaintiffs in Abassi brought claims against two sets of defendants: senior level Justice Department officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI director Robert Mueller; and wardens of the federal detention center in New York where the plaintiffs were held. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 10:30 am by Amy Howe
The officials – former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, and former INS Commissioner James Ziglar, along with Dennis Hasty and James Sherman, the wardens at the federal detention center where some detainees were held – now urge the Supreme Court to reverse that ruling and dismiss the claims against them, arguing that litigating the plaintiffs’ claims would entangle courts in questions relating to national… [read post]
28 Sep 2016, 4:00 am by Martin Kratz
A quote attributed to FBI Director Robert Mueller is “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be”. [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 10:37 am by Benjamin Wittes
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller once offered the following analogy to describe our growing cyber vulnerabilities: In the days of the Roman Empire, roads radiated out from the capital city, spanning more than 52,000 miles. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 12:00 pm by Megan Geuss
The judge said that he permitted the extension because former FBI director Robert Mueller, who Breyer appointed to oversee negotiations between air regulators and Volkswagen, assured Breyer that the two parties, "had made substantial progress toward a resolution that would get the polluting cars off the road,” according to the Los Angeles Times. [read post]
2 Mar 2016, 4:26 pm by Kevin LaCroix
”   Apple CEO Tim Cooke and FBI Director Jim Comey might want to spend a few quality hours watching Cool Hand Luke, perhaps the greatest flick of all time. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 1:02 pm by Alex R. McQuade
 According to Apple’s chief lawyer, the FBIs effort to compel Apple to unlock one of the San Bernardino attackers’ iPhone will weaken security for all devices. [read post]
20 Jun 2015, 9:30 am by Staley Smith
Past instances of the government’s excessive collection and abuse of intelligence are well documented, including the case against Palestinian men living in America, who organized a fundraiser for Palestinian refugees and were subsequently arrested by the FBI for engaging in the financing of terrorist activities. [read post]
17 Jun 2015, 2:21 pm by Cody M. Poplin
In what seems to be a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated claims against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, and former INS Commissioner James Zigler for their roles in post-9/11 immigration detentions, alledged abuse, and profiling. [read post]
22 May 2015, 3:55 pm
McConnell: [The provisions in the Patriot Act] removed bureaucratic barriers that had kept intelligence officials and criminal investigators from sharing information, a simple but major shift that FBI director Robert Mueller has credited with "significantly alter[ing] the landscape for conducting terrorism investigations. [read post]