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FBI Director Stresses Need For Secure Mexico Border Mueller Attends Border Terrorism Conference In S.A. POSTED: 10:17 AM CDT September 9, 2003 SAN ANTONIO -- FBI director Robert Mueller said Monday in San Antonio that the United States faces a difficult and long-lasting balancing act on its southwest border with Mexico: letting beneficial trade and immigrants pass through while filtering out potential terror threats. Mueller (pictured, left) used this week's second anniversary of the 9-11 attacks to trumpet successes in thwarting America's enemies and to reiterate the continuing risks posed by al-Qaida and others. "Al-Qaida keeps adapting," he told...

WASHINGTON, June 13 — The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation wandered into a lion's den of critics today and emerged, for the most part, unscathed. In a speech before more than 1,400 avowed "card carrying" members of the American Civil Liberties Union, the director, Robert S. Mueller III, declared that the F.B.I. and the A.C.L.U. — though often at odds — shared a common bond of respect for the Constitution and for civil liberties. He even co-opted one of the group's slogans, saying that in the fight against terrorism, the nation must be "both safe and free." Mr....

More Islamist terror fronts busted Worse than the KKK: Hamas terrorists receive cash and material support from US-based groups. As FBI Director Robert Mueller continues to pander to radical Islamist groups, federal agencies - including his own - continue their crackdown on Muslim terrorist fronts. In a coordinated move with the British government, the US Treasury Department ordered the blockage of accounts of the Al-Aqsa Foundation, alleged to be funding Hamas suicide bombers. The Wall Street Journal reports that FBI agents have apprehended a figure in the Muslim Students Association (MSA) who used the national campus-based group as "cover for...

Whenever someone like me complains about the assault on freedoms launched by current Attorney General John Ashcroft, someone will rise up and scream that all of Ashcroft?s extremism is justified by the war on terrorism. ?We have to take these steps to prevent another September 11,? some flag-waving, Johnny-come-lately patriot will proclaim. ?I?m willing to make the sacrifice to keep America safe.?Well I hate to break it to all you duct-tape hoarding, canned food stockpiling sheep who don?t mind following somebody into oblivion as long as he waves the American flag, but surrendering your freedoms to Uncle Sam ain?t gonna save...

(AP) Senator Charles Schumer said the FBI hasn't done enough to overhaul and expand its anti-terrorism analysis effort. Yesterday was ten years to the day since terrorists detonated a bomb inside a World Trade Center parking garage, killing six people. Schumer used the occasion to write to FBI Director Robert Mueller complaining that "very little has been done" to upgrade data analysis at the agency. An FBI official countered that by the end of the 2004 budget year, the bureau's analytical staff will have quadrupled in size since the September 11th terror attack. Schumer said the FBI must improve its...

<p>The head of a computer firm wants the independent commission named to investigate September 11 intelligence failures to review accusations that his software-tracking program, which he says the Justice Department stole, was diverted to Osama bin Laden.</p> <p>William H. Hamilton, president of Inslaw Inc., said the commission — headed by former New Jersey Gov. David H. Kean — should focus on the validity of published reports saying bin Laden penetrated classified computer files before the attacks to evade detection and monitor the activities of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- FBI Director Robert Mueller has urged his agents to move swiftly in transforming their agency's mission from traditional law enforcement to intelligence gathering aimed at preventing terrorist acts, according to an internal memo.</p> <p>"Change will be needed in many areas and needed quickly," Mueller told his employees in the memo, which was sent Friday and confirmed by FBI officials Monday. "Bureaucratic intransigence cannot be an impediment or excuse."</p>

<p>Bill Gertz, defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times, in his new book, "Breakdown" (Regnery Publishing), details pervasive intelligence problems that allowed the United States to be blindsided by Islamist terrorists on September 11.</p> <p>The mood was somber in the Situation Room at the White House as President Bush convened a meeting of his top National Security Council advisers several days after the September 11 attacks.</p>

ALEXANDRIA, VA. (AP) -- Walk-in suicide bombers like those who have attacked public places in Israel will hit the United States eventually, FBI Director Robert Mueller said Monday. ``I think we will see that in the future, I think it's inevitable,'' Mueller said in response to a question during a speech to the National Association of District Attorneys meeting in suburban Alexandria, Va. Mueller said the degree of fanaticism an informant must exhibit to get into the inner circle of a terrorist group makes it difficult for law enforcement agencies to penetrate such organizations and prevent such attacks. ``I wish...

<p>ALEXANDRIA, Va. — FBI Director Robert Mueller addressed the controversy that surrounded his appearance at the American Muslim Council's annual convention Friday by telling attendees and protesters that his speech is meant to demonstrate that the United States appreciates its Muslim citizens.</p>

Excerpt: FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is coming under fire from some conservatives for agreeing to deliver a keynote address this week to the American Muslim Council, a group whose founder has declared support for the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups. The council, which is holding a four-day convention in Alexandria that begins Thursday, also has urged members to contribute to two charities, the Holy Land Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation, whose assets have been frozen by the Bush administration for alleged ties to terrorists. To read the rest of the article, visit the source URL.

Jun. 19, 2002The most mainstream Muslim group? by DANIEL PIPES By DANIEL PIPESFBI directors don't make a habit of breaking bread with organizations their agents may soon be investigating, perhaps even closing. Robert S. Mueller III, however, is about to make precisely this blunder on June 28, when he is scheduled to deliver a lunch talk to the American Muslim Council. Mueller accepted this invitation, his spokesman Bill Carter explains, because the FBI regards the AMC as "the most mainstream Muslim group in the United States." The AMC does indeed seek to convey a message of moderation. Its event this...

<p>In the months that have followed the murderous attacks launched on September 11, President Bush has repeatedly, and correctly, emphasized that the war on terror must be fought both at home and abroad. He has recently underscored his determination to make advances on these two fronts by creating a real capability for homeland defense and by adopting, where necessary, pre-emptive measures against our enemies overseas.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told Congress on Thursday his agency needs to devote additional agents, money and time as it works to meet its "paramount mission of prevention" in an age of terrorism. "The need for change was apparent even before Sept. 11. It has become more urgent since then," he told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a nationally televised hearing. "I believe our culture must change as well." The FBI chief spoke as President Bush readied a prime time speech to announce changes in the system he establish last fall in response to the...

The FBI has placed a "substantial" number of people suspected of ties to terror under constant surveillance, sending out special teams of agents to various parts of the United States roughly every two weeks in a mission that is seriously taxing the agency's resources, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said yesterday. Mueller would not specify how many possible terrorists the agency is tracking, but he said the bureau has been "pushed, really pushed" to keep up with them. And he acknowledged that agents have no choice but to monitor those people around the clock when they cannot be detained...

Two years ago in the dog days of August, we drove to Washington, D. C. The main idea was to tour a couple of colleges. On a whim, we fell in with the tourists who lined up for a quarter-mile around the J. Edgar Hoover building. It was more than seven years after a van loaded with explosives drove into a garage at the World Trade Center. Five years after Tim McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City. Whitey Bulger's favorite FBI agent had already been indicted for the first time. And a terrorist attack that would kill...

HEARINGS on the government's pre-September 11 counterterrorism efforts begin this week on Capitol Hill. These earliest sessions of the House and Senate intelligence committees will be conducted behind closed doors. But it is a fair bet which official lapses will principally occupy the panelists' attention, details of these missed opportunities having been front-page news for nearly a month. It is a fair bet, too, what federal agency will be subjected to the sharpest scrutiny, FBI Director Robert Mueller III himself having now very publicly lamented how the Bureau's Washington headquarters handled clues in its possession last summer. And it is...

WASHINGTON Under the police powers it operated under last year, and with the lawful cooperation of a better-managed C.I.A., an efficiently run F.B.I. might well have prevented the catastrophe of Sept. 11. That is the dismaying probability that Congressional oversight (it should be called undersight) will begin to show this week. To fabricate an alibi for his nonfeasance, and to cover up his department's embarrassing cut of the counterterrorism budget last year, Attorney General John Ashcroft — working with his hand-picked aide, F.B.I. Director "J. Edgar" Mueller III — has gutted guidelines put in place a generation ago to prevent...

Attorney General John Ashcroft responded Sunday to the Wall Street Journal's call two days ago for the resignation of FBI Director Robert Mueller, saying the embattled bureau chief is doing a good job. "Bob Mueller is a battle-tested veteran," Ashcroft told "Fox News Sunday's" Brit Hume. "He was shot in the line of duty in Vietnam. [He's] got all kinds of - he knows how to operate under fire." Ashcroft said Mueller is "renovating the FBI in very significant ways to refocus that institution with prevention as its priority, preventing war. And he's doing a good job." The FBI chief...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com The Coup D'état at the FBIChristopher RuddyThursday, May 30, 2002 This week I heard author Ron Kessler say the FBI "disintegrated" under former FBI Director Louis Freeh. I happen to agree with Kessler. But I would like to ask, where was Kessler all these years? And the Washington press corps? And Congress? During the '90s they mostly hid under a rock, timid as they were to challenge the political takeover of the FBI by the Clinton White House. Any reasonable person knows that Sept. 11 didn't happen in a vacuum. Current FBI Director Robert Mueller claims that...