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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: FBI director-nominee is a veteran of computer crime




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Date sent:      	Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:55:30 -0400
From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To:             	politech@politechbot.com
Subject:        	FC: FBI director-nominee is a veteran of computer crime prosecutions
Send reply to:  	declan@well.com

[Apparent tech-savviness, of course, is no guarantee that Mueller
won't become as thoroughly bureacratized as Louis Freeh and proclaim
that the FBI "has not given up on encryption" regulations.
(http://www.politechbot.com/p-00232.html). --DBM]

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45071,00.html

   FBI: From G-Men to G4-Men?
   By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
   2:00 a.m. July 7, 2001 PDT

   WASHINGTON -- It turns out that Robert Mueller, President Bush's
   pick to revive the FBI's ailing image, has plenty of experience
   prosecuting computer crime.

   This week Bush nominated Mueller, 56, to succeed Louis Freeh --
   whose eight years as FBI director was marked by a series of
   embarrassing scandals including the murders at Ruby Ridge, the
   Robert Hanssen spy scandal and misplaced documents in the Timothy
   McVeigh case.

   Freeh was a lifelong East Coast fed. Born in Jersey City, New
   Jersey, he graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New
   Jersey, and won acclaim for his work against Sicilian gangsters who
   used pizza parlors to sell illicit drugs.

   Mueller, by contrast, is more West Coast.

   He started his legal career at a San Francisco law firm in 1973,
   worked in San Francisco as a federal prosecutor for six years and
   is currently the U.S. Attorney for Northern California. Mueller has
   also done stints in Boston and Washington, D.C.

   "He really knows the crime issues in the (tech) industry," said
   George Kennedy, the district attorney for Santa Clara County who
   has worked with Mueller over the last three years. "He will be a
   good man to have at the head of the FBI for those types of crimes."

   After moving back to San Francisco in 1999, Mueller created the
   Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property unit in San Jose.

   [...]





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