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Bush Nominating Mueller to Head FBI
The Associated Press Thursday
July 5, 2001; 10:37 a.m. EDT
WASHINGTON ?? President Bush is nominating Justice Department veteran
Robert Mueller to head the FBI and try to help the agency rebound from a
string of recent embarrassments that ranged from bungled documents to the
unveiling of a spy.
Bush was to announce his selection of Mueller in a Rose Garden ceremony
Thursday morning, said a senior White House official on condition of
anonymity. Attorney General John Ashcroft was interrupting his Independence
Day vacation in Missouri to attend.
Mueller, a U.S. attorney in San Francisco, was long considered the
front-runner to replace retired FBI Director Louis Freeh at the helm of an
agency troubled in recent years.
Among the FBI's problems were a maverick independent streak, its
snake-bitten relationship with the Clinton administration and a series of
mishaps, including the botched investigation of former nuclear scientist
Wen Ho Lee, and the mishandling of evidence in the Oklahoma
City bombing trial that forced the postponement of Timothy McVeigh's
execution.
In February, the FBI discovered that one of its own, veteran FBI agent
Robert Hanssen, had been spying for the Russians for more than 15 years.
Mueller's nomination had been expected since last month, when Bush abruptly
asked aides to take one last look at the field of possible candidates.
The White House is seeking to rein in the independent-minded FBI and the
president, aides said, wanted a director who defers to the Justice
Department.
Mueller remained the strongest candidate to fit this bill. The former
acting deputy attorney general won the support of Attorney General John
Ashcroft by aiding in the transition from the Clinton administration.
Mueller was acting deputy attorney general from January until last month,
when he returned to California to resume his job as U.S. attorney in San
Francisco. Prior to his California posting, Mueller was chief of the
homicide section at the U.S. attorney's office in
Washington, D.C.
Mueller has been given significant government appointments by both Bush's
father, President George H.W. Bush, and President Clinton.
Under the first President Bush, Mueller was named assistant attorney
general in charge of the Justice Department's criminal division. In that
post, Mueller supervised the prosecutions of Manuel Noriega and John Gotti
and headed up the investigations of the BCCI banking scandal
and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Mueller also was assistant to Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and was a
federal prosecutor in Boston and California, where he investigated and
prosecuted major financial fraud, narcotics, terrorist and public
corruption cases.
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