Mueller,Robert

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On July 5th, 2001, President Bush announced that he was nominating Justice Department veteran Robert S. Mueller to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to succeed retired FBI Director Louis B. Freeh (->). Mueller became the sixth director of the FBI and started his job on September 4th, 2001, one week before the attack in Sep11th. Before he was U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California.

Under the first President Bush, Mueller was Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's criminal division. In that post, Mueller supervised the prosecutions of Panamanian President Manuel Noriega and U.S. Organized Crime chieftain John Gotti as well as heading up the investigations of the Bcci banking scandal and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Mueller was assistant to Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and was a federal prosecutor in Boston and California, where he investigated and prosecuted major financial fraud, narcotics, terrorist and public corruption cases. During the Vietnam War, Mueller served in the U.S. Marine Corps for a year overseas and was awarded several battle citations. When Colleen Rowley released her memo about the blocked investigations on Moussaoui,HabibZacarias in August 2001, Mueller testified on the situation in the FBI instead of Louis Freeh. Mueller is a big supporter of reorganising the FBI and tried to influence other foreign agencies, too. In March 2002, it was reported, that he had a secret meeting in New Zealand.