Robert Mueller

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FILE - In this July 30, 2001, file photo, Robert Mueller is sworn in at the start of his testimony during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, to be the FBI director. Mueller took office as FBI director in 2001 expecting to dig into drug cases, white-collar misdeeds and violent crime. A week later was Sept. 11. Overnight, his mission changed and Mueller spent the next 12 years wrestling the agency into a battle-hardened terrorism-fighting force. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)

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FILE - In this April 21, 2016 file photo, attorney and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, right, arrives for a court hearing at the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco. Mueller has been overseeing settlement talks with Volkswagen, the U.S. government and private lawyers. Mueller is being honored with an award from West Point. The U.S. Military Academy’s Association of Graduates will present the Thayer Award to Mueller on Thursday evening, Oct. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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National Edition News cover for March 20, 2014 - Feds flying in style: FBI director Robert Mueller leaves the plane upon his arrival at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, on Sunday, March 3, 2002. Mueller is in Guantanamo Bay to meet with the leadership of the Joint Task Force 160 and FBI agents at Camp X-Ray. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (right), Vermont Democrat, and committee member Sen. Orrin Hatch (left), Utah Republican, greet FBI Director Robert Mueller on Capitol Hill on June 19, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing on national security matters. Mueller is nearing the end of his 12 years as head of the law enforcement agency. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** James Comey will be nominated by President Obama to replace FBI Director Robert Mueller. (Associated Press)

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President Obama talks on the phone with FBI Director Robert Mueller following explosions at the Boston Marathon. (Pete Souza/White House photo)

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**FILE** FBI Director Robert Mueller confers with an aide on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 16, 2012, prior to testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." (Associated Press)

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FBI Director Robert Mueller (left) and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (right) are greeted by Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Republican and vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, in the Hart Senate Office Building in D.C., before a hearing on worldwide threats. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)