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And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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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. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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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. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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