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In shift, FBI allows it might have been able to detect terror attacks Wed May 29, 8:48 PM ETBy TED BRIDIS, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON - FBI (news - web sites) Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday there could have been more missed clues before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and suggested for the first time that investigators might have uncovered the plot if they had been more diligent about pursuing leads."The jury is still out on all of it," Mueller said, during a wide-ranging, two-hour interview at Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters. "Looking at it right now, I can't say for...

This article presents, analyzes and adds important new information about a recent letter to the editor of the Washington Times concerning the nominee for FBI Director, Robert Mueller. The letter was published on page A-11 of the Times on July 28, 2001 and was written by Patrick Downes of Boston. His letter was entitled “FBI Appointment Needs More Investigation”. While Downes letter is to the editor, it provides valuable information about Mueller’s previous role in DOJ collusion to help facilitate FBI and DOJ corruption in mishandling evidence in important cases. The text of the letter is first reproduced and then...

<p>WASHINGTON — Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday will announce dramatic new changes to the Federal Bureau of Investigation that officials are hoping will help prevent future terror attacks in the United States.</p> <p>Ashcroft is expected to say that the changes will "explicitly establish protection of the United States and the American people from terrorism as the highest priority and central mission of the FBI."</p>

WASHINGTON - No town on earth offers a softer landing for frauds and incompetents than this one. Robert S. McNamara, a key architect of the Vietnam War, wanders in and out of Washington's finest dining rooms like a ghost, and often finds a prestigious platform for his latest apology. Zbigniew Brzezinski, who as national security adviser pressured President Jimmy Carter to try the disastrous Iranian hostage rescue called Operation Eagle Claw, is fawningly solicited for advice in a wide range of quasi-academic and journalistic forums. Few reputation rescues topped the choice of Allen Dulles, author of the Bay of Pigs,...

FBI Headquarters is staffed with a number of short term careerists* who, like the SSA in question, must only serve an 18 month-just-time-to-get-your-ticket-punched minimum. It's no wonder why very little expertise can be acquired by a Headquarters unit! (And no wonder why FBIHQ is mired in mediocrity! -- that maybe a little strong, but it would definitely be fair to say that there is unevenness in competency among Headquarters personnel.)

America's top policeman was at the head of an international security summit held under extraordinary secrecy in Queenstown. The summit's cover was blown only when United States Federal Bureau of Investigations director Robert S. Mueller III was seen boarding an unmarked Gulfstream 5 jet for Australia yesterday at Queenstown Airport. The Prime Minister refused to comment on the summit, but a Government official last night confirmed Mr Mueller had been in Queenstown as part of a conference of English-speaking security chiefs. Police diplomatic protection squad members had joined his security screen. As the US mourned its dead on the six-month...