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We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.

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Robert Mueller
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: August 7
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In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.
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And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.
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In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.
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But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.
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In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat.
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No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.
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I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.
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They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.
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The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.
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It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.
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