good experienced crooks are hard to come by these days.
From ---- http://www.iwar.org.uk/news-archive/2001/fbi/07-05-01.htm
05 July 2001
(Calls him man of "fidelity, bravery and integrity") (1330) President Bush announced July 5 that he was nominating Justice Department veteran Robert S. Mueller to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to succeed retired FBI Director Louis B. Freeh. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Mueller would become the sixth director of the nation's leading law enforcement agency. "He assumes great responsibilities, he was chosen with great care, and he has my confidence," Bush said at a ceremony in the Rose Garden announcing the selection. Standing next to the President were Mueller and Attorney General John Ashcroft. Bush saluted Mueller as a man of "fidelity, bravery and integrity." "The FBI must remain independent of politics and uncompromising in its mission," Bush said. "Bob Mueller's experience and character convinced me that he's ready to shoulder these responsibilities." Mueller pledged to enforce the nation's laws "fairly and with respect to the rights of all Americans." Mueller was Acting Deputy U.S. Attorney General from January until June when he returned to California to resume his job as U.S. attorney in San Francisco. Under the first President Bush, Mueller was Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's criminal division. In that post, Mueller supervised the prosecutions of Panamanian President Manuel Noriega and U.S. Organized Crime chieftain John Gotti as well as heading 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.