Topic - Robert Mueller

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  NYPD's spying programs yielded only mixed results

  When New York undercover officers and informants were infiltrating a mosque in Queens in 2006, they failed to notice the increasingly radical sentiments of a young man who prayed there. Police also kept tabs on a Muslim student group at Queens College, but missed a member's growing anti-Americanism.

• FBI contacted phone monitoring firm about software

  A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cellphones said Thursday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was rebuffed. The disclosure came one day after FBI Director Robert Mueller assured Congress that agents "neither sought nor obtained any information" from the company, Carrier IQ.

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  White House says no veto of defense bill

  The White House on Wednesday abandoned its threat that President Obama would veto a defense bill over provisions on how to handle suspected terrorists as Congress raced to finish the legislation.

• Inside Politics

  The Senate has voted unanimously to extend the term of FBI Director Robert Mueller, who took over the agency just days before the Sept. 11 attacks.

• Murdochs to be questioned in UK; FBI opens review

  Rupert Murdoch and his son James first refused, then agreed to appear before U.K. lawmakers investigating phone hacking and police bribery, while in the U.S., the FBI opened a review into allegations the Murdoch media empire sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims.

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  FBI probing News Corp. 9/11 phone link

  The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims, a law enforcement official said Thursday.

• Murdochs to be questioned in UK; FBI opens review

  Rupert Murdoch and his son James first refused, then agreed Thursday to appear before U.K. lawmakers investigating phone hacking and police bribery, while in the U.S., the FBI opened a review into allegations the Murdoch media empire sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims.

• Inside Politics

  A bill requiring 500,000 public workers in New Jersey to shoulder a significantly larger share of the costs for their health care and pension benefits and take the issue off the bargaining table has advanced in the Legislature over staunch objections from organized labor.

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  FBI stepping up efforts to counter cybercrime

  FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate on Wednesday that the FBI is stepping up efforts to combat cybercrime and espionage.

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  Obama seeking Congress OK for FBI chief to stay

  President Obama will ask Congress to allow FBI Director Robert Mueller to remain in his job an extra two years, a rare exemption that would give the government stability in a time of change atop the national security team and renewed worldwide attention on terrorism.

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  BOOK REVIEW: Thwarting terror here and abroad

  Now that an elite American special-operations unit has ended the life of Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda's charismatic leader and founder, the world's most lethal and geographically dispersed terrorist organization is entering a new, uncertain direction.

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  ROWLEY & LEGGIERE: Let the Patriot Act die

  In little more than a month, three of the 160 provisions of the notorious Patriot Act are set to expire. While federal officials have claimed that Congress must reauthorize those provisions to keep the nation safe, we should take their claims with a grain of proverbial salt.

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  Inside the Ring

  The commander of the new U.S. Cyber Command told Congress on Wednesday that threats of cyberwar continue to grow.

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  Congresswoman Giffords shot at town hall in Tucson

  A gunman shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head on Saturday, critically wounding her, killing six people and wounded another 11 at an event the congresswoman was holding in Tucson, Ariz.

• FBI backs record-keeping on prepaid cell phones

  FBI Director Robert Mueller has endorsed anti-terrorism legislation that would require prepaid cell-phone sellers to keep records of buyers' identities.

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