Robert Mueller: The 19 Biggest Scandals and Controversies in His Career
By Tom Elliott
                
            Contributors: 4
                    Items: 19
                | Summary | Date | Source | 
|---|---|---|
| Mueller's point man on the anthrax investigation was accused of misconduct in the Ruby Ridge standoff; was accused of leaking information about the anthrax probe to help the FBI politically | 08/24/2002 | The Washington Post | 
| Mueller sought and received funds from a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, to oversee an FBI effort to retrieve an American in Iran (Deripaska has since turned up in the Trump probe) | 09/01/2009 | The Hill | 
| Robert Muellers FBI protected mobster Whitey Bulger and thwarted investigations into his activities. | 03/01/2011 | New American | 
| Mueller conspired with Comey to help the latter assume the role of attorney general while John Ashcroft was hospitalized so they could help obstruct an anti-terrorism domestic surveillance program | 05/21/2017 | RealClearPolitics | 
| Mueller, while serving as a U.S. attorney in Boston, once tried to entrap a defense attorney | 10/17/2017 | Harvey Silverglate | 
| When Mueller served in the DoJ's criminal division, he quashed an investigation showing FBI agents framed an innocent man with murdering his family | 10/17/2017 | Harvey Silverglate | 
| Mueller's chief investigator in the Russia probe, Andrew Weissmann, was frequently accused of bending the law to win convictions (which are often overturned) | 10/19/2017 | The Hill | 
| In 1979, Mueller bungled and ultimately lost the feds' case against 33 Hells Angels | 11/24/2017 | LA Times | 
| When an internal FBI investigation into the counterterrorism unit Mueller created was effectively worthless, his associates had it buried | 11/24/2017 | The Los Angles Times | 
| Mueller was tasked with negotiating the release of Edward Snowden from Russia; he made no progress | 11/24/2017 | The Los Angeles Times | 
| Under Mueller, the FBI concealed evidence showing FBI agents warned headquarters pre-9/11 about suspicious Arabs in flight school (which went unheeded) | 01/29/2018 | The Hill | 
| Under Mueller, the FBI inspector general said agents abused the PATRIOT Act to unconstitutionally spy on thousands of innocent Americans | 01/29/2018 | The Hill | 
| The Electronic Freedom Foundation found that under Mueller, the FBI committee "tens of thousands of violations of federal law, regulations, or executive orders" | 01/29/2018 | The Hill | 
| At the FBI, Mueller repeatedly signed Foreign Intel Surveillance Court orders demanding phone companies turn over records on all Americans | 01/29/2018 | The Hill | 
| Despite personally authorizing the mass surveillance of innocent Americans, Mueller told the Senate no such surveillance occurred | 01/29/2018 | The Hill | 
| Mueller bungled the FBI's high-profile anthrax investigation, spying on and falsely accusing two innocent Americans and ultimately refused to apologize | 02/08/2018 | The Federalist | 
| Mueller is accused of using the Russia probe to cover up FISA abuse in the Obama Administration | 03/13/2018 | Tablet | 
| When a Clinton White House official, Sandy Berger, was caught destroying and removing classified material, Mueller's FBI gave him a slap on the wrist | 04/19/2018 | The Federalist | 
| Despite knowing who leaked Valerie Plame's identity to a reporter, Mueller tasked a special counsel to investigate the Bush Administration for years, eventually ensnaring a non-leaker with a process charge | 04/19/2018 | The Federalist | 
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