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Robert Swan Mueller III (born
August 7,
1944) is the current
Director of the
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Early life
Mueller was born in 1944 in
New York City to Alice C. Truesdale and Robert Swan Mueller. He grew up outside of
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. A 1962 graduate of
St. Paul's School, he went on to graduate from
Princeton University in 1966, earned a master's degree in
international relations at
New York University in 1967, and obtained his law degree from the
University of Virginia School of Law.
Military service
Prior to earning his law degree, Mueller joined the
United States Marine Corps, where he served as an officer for three years, leading a rifle platoon of the
3rd Marine Division during the
Vietnam War. He is the recipient of the
Bronze Star, two
Navy Commendation Medals, the
Purple Heart and the
Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
Law work
Following his military service, Mueller earned a
Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the
University of Virginia in 1973 and served on the
Law Review. After completing his education, Mueller worked as a
litigator in
San Francisco until 1976.
He then served for 12 years in
United States Attorney offices. He first worked in the office of the
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California in
San Francisco, where he rose to be chief of the criminal division, and in 1982, he moved to
Boston to work in the office of the
U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts as
Assistant United States Attorney, where he investigated and prosecuted major financial fraud, terrorism and public corruption cases, as well as narcotics conspiracies and international money launderers.
After serving as a partner at the Boston law firm of
Hill and Barlow, Mueller was again called to public service. In 1989, he served in the
United States Department of Justice as an assistant to
Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. The following year he took charge of its criminal division. During his tenure, he oversaw prosecutions that included
Panamanian leader
Manuel Noriega, the
Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie bombing) case, and the
Gambino crime family boss John Gotti. In 1991, he was elected a fellow of the
American College of Trial Lawyers.
In 1993, Mueller became a partner at Boston's
Hale and Dorr, specializing in complex
white-collar crime litigation. He returned to public service in 1995 as senior litigator in the homicide section of the District of Columbia United States Attorney's Office. In 1998, Mueller was named
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California and held that position until 2001.
FBI appointment
Mueller was nominated for the position of FBI Director on July 5, 2001. He and two other candidates were up for the job at the time, but he was always considered the front runner. Washington lawyer
George Terwilliger and veteran Chicago prosecutor and white-collar defense lawyer
Dan Webb were up for the job but both pulled out from consideration around mid-June. Confirmation hearings for Mueller, in front of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, were quickly set for July 30 days before his prostate cancer surgery. The vote on the Senate floor on August 2, 2001 passed unanimously, 98-0. He then served as Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice for several months, before officially becoming the FBI Director on September 4, 2001, just one week before the
September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States.
NSA Domestic wiretapping investigation
Director Robert Mueller along with the then acting attorney general
James B. Comey offered to resign from office in March 2004 if the White House overruled a Department of Justice ruling which concluded that warrantless domestic wiretapping was unconstitutional. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft refused to intervene in attempts by White House chief of Staff
Andrew Card and then White House Counsel
Alberto R. Gonzales to waive this ruling and permit the domestic warrantless eavesdropping program to proceed. President Bush ultimately gave his support to making changes to the program on March 12, 2004 thereby defusing a crisis here.
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