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Also posted on Zero Hedge, Counterpunch, Eurasia Review, etc.<\/h3>\n

Libertarian Institute, March 23, 2026<\/h3>\n

The Late Robert Mueller, Bill of Rights Executioner<\/a><\/h1>\n
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My photo from the 2018 Women’s March in Washington<\/p><\/div>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

Obituaries on eminent Washingtonians usually omit the dreadful precedents they set that will vex Americans long after their death. N<\/strong>ot this piece.<\/p>\n

Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week at the age of 81. The New York Times<\/em> eulogized him as a \u201cbutton-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.\u201d In reality, Mueller was simply a twenty-first century version of J. Edgar Hoover, trampling the Constitution and seizing new power on any pretext.<\/p>\n

Mueller took over the FBI one week before the 9\/11 attacks and he was worse than clueless afterwards. On September 14, 2011, Mueller declared, \u201cThe fact that there were a number of individuals that happened to have received training<\/span><\/a> at flight schools here is news, quite obviously. If we had understood that to be the case, we would have\u2014perhaps one could have averted this.\u201d Three days later, Mueller announced, \u201cThere were no warning signs that I\u2019m aware of that would indicate this type of operation in<\/span><\/a> the country.\u201d His protestations helped the W. Bush administration railroad the Patriot Act through Congress, vastly expanding the FBI\u2019s prerogatives to vacuum up Americans\u2019 personal information.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deceit helped capture those intrusive new prerogatives.<\/strong> The Bush administration suppressed until the following May the news that FBI agents in Phoenix and Minneapolis had warned FBI headquarters of suspicious Arabs<\/span><\/a> in flight training programs prior to 9\/11. A House-Senate Joint Intelligence Committee analysis concluded that FBI incompetence and negligence \u201ccontributed to the United States becoming, in effect, a sanctuary for radical terrorists<\/span><\/a>.<\/i>\u201d FBI blundering spurred The <\/em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> to call for Mueller\u2019s resignation<\/span><\/a>, while a New York Times<\/em> headline warned: \u201cLawmakers Say Misstatements Cloud F.B.I. Chief\u2019s Credibility<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the FBI was off and running. Thanks to the Patriot Act, the FBI increased by a hundredfold<\/span><\/a>\u2014up to 50,000 a year<\/span><\/a>\u2014the number of National Security Letters<\/strong> (NSLs) it issued to citizens, business, and nonprofit organizations, and recipients were prohibited from disclosing that their data had been raided<\/span><\/a>. NSLs entitle the FBI to seize records that reveal \u201cwhere a person makes and spends money, with whom he lives and lived before<\/span><\/a>, how much he gambles, what he buys online, what he pawns and borrows, where he travels, how he invests, what he searches for and reads on the Web, and who telephones or e-mails him at home and at work,\u201d The Washington Post<\/em> noted. The FBI can lasso thousands of people\u2019s records with a single NSL<\/span><\/a>\u2014regardless of the Fourth Amendment\u2019s prohibition of unreasonable warrantless searches<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The FBI greatly understated<\/span><\/a> the number of NSLs it was issuing and denied that abuses had occurred, thereby helping sway Congress to renew the Patriot Act in 2006. The following year, an Inspector General report revealed that FBI agents may have recklessly issued thousands of illegal NSLs<\/span><\/a>. Shortly after that report was released, federal judge Victor Marrero denounced the NSL process as \u201cthe legislative equivalent of breaking and entering, with an ominous<\/span><\/a> free pass to the hijacking of constitutional values.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than arresting FBI agents who broke the law, Mueller created a new FBI Office of Integrity and Compliance.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>The Electronic Freedom Foundation, after winning lawsuits to garner FBI reports to a federal oversight board, concluded that the FBI may have committed \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of violations<\/span><\/a> of federal law, regulations, or Executive Orders between 2001 and 2008.<\/p>\n

President George W. Bush, scorning a unanimous 1972 Supreme Court ruling<\/span><\/a>, decided he was entitled to impose warrantless wiretaps on Americans. At an April 2005 Senate hearing, Senator Barbara Mikulski<\/span><\/a> (D-MD) asked Mueller, \u201cCan the National Security Agency, the great electronic snooper, spy on the American people?\u201d Mueller replied, \u201cI would say generally, they are not allowed to spy or to gather information on American citizens<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mueller presumably knew his answer was at least misleading if not blatantly deceptive. Nearly nine months later, The New York Times<\/em> revealed that Bush had unleashed NSA to illegally wiretap up to five hundred people within the United States<\/span><\/a> at any given time and peruse millions of other Americans\u2019 emails<\/span><\/a>. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales responded to the uproar by asserting that \u201cthe president has the inherent authority\u201d<\/span><\/a> to order such wiretaps. Mueller had no trouble with that dictatorial doctrine\u2014even though the same claim spurred one of the articles of impeachment<\/span><\/a> crafted against President Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n

Mueller\u2019s biggest coup against privacy occurred with Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which entitles the FBI to demand \u201cbusiness records\u201d that are \u201crelevant\u201d to a terrorism or espionage investigation. In 2011 testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mueller \u201csuggested the FBI interpreted (Section 215) narrowly and used it sparingly<\/span><\/a>,\u201d the ACLU noted. But Mueller was the point man for the Bush administration\u2019s bizarre 2006 decision<\/span><\/a> (perpetuated by Barack Obama) that all Americans\u2019 telephone records were \u201crelevant\u201d to terrorism investigations. Several times a year, Mueller signed orders to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court<\/span><\/a>, swaying it to continually renew its order compelling telephone companies to deliver all their calling records (including time, duration, and location of calls) to the National Security Agency.<\/p>\n

On June 5, 2013, leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden blew the lid off this surveillance regime<\/span><\/a>. Federal judge Richard Leon slammed that records roundup as \u201calmost Orwellian\u2026I cannot imagine a more indiscriminate<\/span><\/a> and arbitrary invasion than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mueller sought to dampen the Snowden uproar by testifying to Congress that the feds could not listen to Americans\u2019 calls without a warrant for that \u201cparticular phone and that particular individual<\/span><\/a>.\u201d But NSA employees had broad discretion to vacuum<\/span><\/a> up Americans\u2019 info without warrants, and NSA\u2019s definition of terrorist suspect was so ludicrously broad that it includes \u201csomeone searching the web for suspicious stuff<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mueller was replaced at the FBI by James Comey. After Comey was fired in May 2017 by President Donald Trump, Comey leaked official memos with confidential information to a lawyer who delivered them to The<\/em> New York Times.<\/i> Comey\u2019s leak triggered the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Trump. Mueller\u2019s investigation generated endless allegations and controversies and helped Democrats capture control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. In April 2019, after two years of media frenzies, Mueller finally admitted he found no evidence to prosecute Trump or his campaign officials for colluding with Russia in the 2016 campaign. In July 2019, Mueller testified to Congress on his investigation and the nation was shocked to see Mueller looking mentally clueless time and again under questioning.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether the media can restore Mueller\u2019s halo after his death. But whitewashing Mueller\u2019s record will simply invite more FBI depredations of Americans\u2019 rights and liberties.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Also posted on Zero Hedge, Counterpunch, Eurasia Review, etc. Libertarian Institute, March 23, 2026 The Late Robert Mueller, Bill of Rights Executioner by James Bovard Obituaries on eminent Washingtonians usually omit the dreadful precedents they set that will vex Americans long after their death. Not this piece. 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