Rogers departure. Intel.

chief of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, said he was "accountable for his actions" following a report published during a security conference he attended here this weekend that senior administration officials have recommended President Barack Obama remove him amid concerns with his performance and the possible splitting of command duties for the two secretive organizations he leads….obama

Sessions departure. Law.

U1 Cfius board member… obama

Kelly departure. Warfare/MIL

retired Marine general who clashed with the Obama administration over women in combat….obama

Mattis departure. Warfare/MIL

worked for obama…fired by Obam

Notice a pattern? Blantantly obvious they were spilling the beans on the past. Mission accomplished.

Q…bombs away

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Remarks by the President in Nominating Robert S. Mueller as Director of the FBI

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11:30 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming. General, thank you for being here. It is my honor to nominate Robert S. Mueller, of California, to become the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I want to welcome his wife, Anne, here, and I want to welcome you all to the Rose Garden. President George W. Bush announces Robert Mueller to be

director of the FBI during an event in the Rose Garden,

Thursday, July 5, 2001. WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY ERIC DRAPER

When confirmed, Mr. Mueller will be only the sixth person to hold this position. He assumes great responsibilities. He was chosen with great care and he has my full confidence. Bob Mueller earned my trust and that of the Attorney General when he served as Acting Deputy Attorney General earlier this year. He also has earned the confidence of other Presidents before me.

He is the current U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California; he was appointed to that position by President Clinton. He served in my father's administration, as well. Before that, he was U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, making him one of the very few ever to serve as Chief Federal Prosecutor in two jurisdictions.

Out next FBI Director has given nearly all his career to public service, going back to his days in the Marine Corps. He served with distinction and was decorated during the Vietnam War. As a lawyer, prosecutor and government official, he has shown high ideals, a clear sense of purpose and a tested devotion to his country.

As Director, Mr. Mueller will succeed a good and honest man, Director Louis Freeh, who has my respect and the gratitude of our nation. I also want to thank Acting Director Pickard, who has served well during this transition.

The FBI has a great tradition that Mr. Mueller must now affirm, and some important challenges he must confront. Like the Department of Justice, the FBI must remain independent of politics and uncompromising in its mission.

Bob Mueller's term in office will last longer than my own. And the next 10 years will bring more forms of crime, new threats of terror, from beyond our borders and within them. The tools of law enforcement will change, as well. The FBI must be ready to protect Americans from new types of criminals who will use modern technology to defraud and disrupt our society.

The Bureau must secure its rightful place as the premier counter-espionage and counter-terrorist organization in the United States. It must continue to serve as a resource and training center for law enforcement. And it must do all this with a firm commitment to safeguarding the constitutional rights of our citizens.

Bob Mueller's experience and character convinced me that he's ready to shoulder these responsibilities. Agents of the Bureau prize three virtues above all: fidelity, bravery and integrity. This new Director is a man who exemplifies them all.

Congratulations.

MR. MUELLER: Thank you very much, Mr. President. Thank you, sir.

I am deeply honored by the trust that President Bush has shown in nominating me to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI is the foremost law enforcement agency in the world. I look forward to the confirmation process. And, if confirmed, I look forward to working with the thousands of dedicated men and women who are agents and employees of the FBI, to enforce our nation's laws fairly and with respect to the rights of all Americans.

Again, thank you, Mr. President, for the confidence you've shown in me. Thank you, sir.

THE PRESIDENT: Congratulations.

MR. MUELLER: Thank you very much, sir.

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming. (Applause.)

END 11:36 A.M. EDT

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>>4440989

You notice the PATTERN?

Was Robert Mueller appointed by Obama?

Originally Answered: Was Robert Mueller appointed by Obama?

Yes and no.

He was appointed to be the head of the FBI by President George W Bush in 2001.

After his 10 year appointment ran out, President Obama extended his appointment (as head of the FBI) by two years. When that ran out, Obama appointed Comey as head of the FBI. Mueller, who is himself a Republican, was thus appointed, or reappointed, as head of the FBI by both a Republican President and a Democratic one. He has served in that position longer than anybody else since J Edgar Hoover.

I assume, however, that the question is really asking about the appointment to the office of Special Counsel, investigating the Russian election interference.

That appointment would normally have been made by the Attorney General at the time, namely Jeff Sessions. However, Sessions had made himself sufficiently of interest to that investigation by lying about contacts with Russians that he found it expedient to recuse himself from all aspects of that investigation.

Therefore it was his second in command, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who made this appointment.

Rosenstein is known to most Americans for drafting a memo critical of FBI Director Comey. Although Rosenstein denies recommending that Comey be fired, and although the memo does not mention firing Comey, both President Trump and AG Sessions used that memo as a pretext to fire Comey.

If this question is intended to show partisan predisposition on Mueller’s part, I would like to re-emphasize that his appointment was made under the Trump administration. Also, it should be noted that the Department of Justice’s ethics panel (under the Trump administration) declared Mueller to be ethically independent enough to carry out this investigation.

>>4441026

Notice the PATTERN? THINK LOGICALLY

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/06/us/man-in-the-news-a-man-made-for-law-enforcement-robert-swan-mueller-iii.html

>>4441088

FBI Nominee Lauded for Tenacity

A July 30 article on Robert S. Mueller, the Bush administration's nominee to direct the FBI, misstated the number of people who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The 1988 bombing killed 270 people. (Published 7/31/01)

By Peter Slevin and

Dan Eggen July 30, 2001

It was Jan. 22, and David Margolis was exhausted. The career Justice Department attorney had worked hard during the chaotic conclusion of the Clinton era, and the first workday of the Bush administration was upon him too soon. He reported for work at 8:55 a.m. to find a note on his chair:

"Where are you? It's 0700 hours."

The note was from Bob Mueller, the hyper-motivated prosecutor and former Marine who had been recruited to run the department's daily operations until President Bush installed his own team. Margolis, a friend of 11 years, was not the only one struck by Mueller's pace and performance in the succeeding weeks. When Louis J. Freeh announced in May he was stepping down as director of the FBI, Mueller was Bush's surprise choice to succeed him.

As it turned out, the FBI job had long intrigued Mueller. And when Mueller appears today for his confirmation hearings, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are likely to get a glimpse of the sense of mission that has propelled him throughout his career as a lawyer and prosecutor but never to a job of comparable scale.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/07/30/fbi-nominee-lauded-for-tenacity/e2012e09-379e-479f-8bd3-8c2aef36152a/?utm_term=.0b1a0e2c3e49

https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Mueller-II/6000000026589014956

>>4441186

About Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI

Robert Swan "Bob" Mueller III is an American attorney who was the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving from September 4, 2001 to September 4, 2013.

On May 17, 2017, Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department as special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

Early life and education

Mueller was born on August 7, 1944, in New York City, New York, the son of Alice C. (née Truesdale) and Robert Swan Mueller. His maternal great-grandfather was railroad executive William Truesdale; his ancestry includes German, Scottish, and English. Mueller grew up outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A 1962 graduate of St. Paul's School, he went on to receive an A.B. from Princeton University in 1966, where he played lacrosse, an M.A. in international relations from New York University in 1967, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1973.

Military service

Mueller joined the United States Marine Corps, where he served as an officer for three years, leading a rifle platoon of the 3rd Marine Division during the Vietnam War. He is a recipient of the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals, the Purple Heart and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.

Career

Following his military service, Mueller continued his studies at the University of Virginia Law School, eventually serving on the Law Review. After receiving his Juris Doctor degree, Mueller worked as a litigator in San Francisco until 1976.

He then served for 12 years in United States Attorney offices. He first worked in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, where he rose to be chief of the criminal division, and in 1982, he moved to Boston to work in the office of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts as Assistant United States Attorney, where he investigated and prosecuted major financial fraud, terrorism and public corruption cases, as well as narcotics conspiracies and international money launderers.

After serving as a partner at the Boston law firm of Hill and Barlow, Mueller returned to government service. In 1989, he served in the United States Department of Justice as an assistant to Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. The following year he took charge of its criminal division. During his tenure, he oversaw prosecutions that included Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, the Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie bombing) case, and the Gambino crime family boss John Gotti. In 1991, he was elected a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

In 1993, Mueller became a partner at Boston's Hale and Dorr, specializing in white-collar crime litigation. 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 1998, Mueller was named U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California and held that position until 2001.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Mueller was nominated for the position of FBI Director on July 5, 2001. He and two other candidates were up for the job at the time, but he was always considered the front runner. Washington lawyer George J. Terwilliger III and veteran Chicago prosecutor and white-collar defense lawyer Dan Webb were up for the job but both pulled out from consideration around mid-June. Confirmation hearings for Mueller, in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, were quickly set for July 30, only three days before his prostate cancer surgery. The vote on the Senate floor on August 2, 2001, passed unanimously, 98–0. He then served as Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice for several months, before officially becoming the FBI Director on September 4, 2001, just one week before the September 11 attacks against the United States.

>>4441223

On May 12, 2011, it was reported that President Obama had asked Director Mueller to continue at the helm of the FBI for another 2 years beyond his current term, set to expire on September 4, 2013. The Senate approved this request on July 27, 2011. Mueller stepped down on September 4, 2013, and was replaced by James Comey.

Domestic wiretapping investigation

Director Mueller, along with Acting Attorney General James B. Comey, offered to resign from office in March 2004 if the White House overruled a Department of Justice finding that domestic wiretapping without a court warrant was unconstitutional. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft denied his consent to attempts by White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales to waive the Justice Department ruling and permit the domestic warrantless eavesdropping program to proceed. On March 12, 2004, President George W. Bush gave his support to changes in the program sufficient to satisfy the concerns of Mueller, Ashcroft and Comey. The extent of the National Security Agency's domestic warrantless eavesdropping under the President's Surveillance Program is still largely unknown.

>>4441278

Sauce.

https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Mueller-Director-of-the-FBI/6000000026587929732

Inside the threat matrix

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