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And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.
Robert Mueller
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What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.
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We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.
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I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.
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But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.
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And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.
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In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it became clear that the FBI's number one priority must be the prevention of another terrorist attack.
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I am confident that every action we took as the FBI detained individuals in the wake of 9/11 was appropriately done.
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I think, in the wake of Sept. 11, it's important for the American public to understand that to the extent that there are individuals within the United States who would undertake terrorist attacks, that we are doing something to address that.
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