The FBI Director Who Started on September 10: Top Photos

The FBI director who was sworn in one week before September 11 dies at 81 after a quiet battle with Parkinson's.

Robert S. Mueller, III, director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013
Robert S. Mueller III, who was sworn in as FBI director on September 4, 2001 — exactly one week before the September 11 attacks thrust him into running the largest criminal investigation in American history. © Federal Bureau of Investigation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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