Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

S. 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 1991 he was elected a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Robert Swan Mueller III (born August 7 1944) is the sixth and current Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).