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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

#before #came #commit #competence #could

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

#also #closely #community #counterparts #each

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. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#agents #also #context #day #firemen

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

#agencies #agency #central #difficult #impossible

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

#agents #also #analytical #analyze #better

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#fisa #foreign #intelligence #our #purpose

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#also #attaches #bring #field #legal

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#may #methods #necessary #ones #other

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year. ↗

— Kary Mullis

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