now it is my distinct honor and also a personal pleasure for me to introduce robert s. muller, the sixth director of the federal bureau of investigation. nominated by president george w. bush, he was sworn in to lead the fbi on september 4, 2001, just one week before the al qaeda attacks on 9/11. under his leadership, the fbi has since played the leading role in preventing further terrorist attacks inside america. all americans should be happy that congress recently approved an extension of his tenure -- his 10-year term for an additional two years. i have known bob since 1970, which was his first year as a law student at university of virginia where i was on the law school faculty. he was a returning veteran from the vietnam war, having led a rifle platoon in the third marine division, receiving a bronze star, purple heart, and vietnamese cross of gallantry. i was always on the lookout for incoming students who played squash. bob more than filled that bill. he improve my game, although i never, never beat the man. i did, however, get to know him very well. he was a prince. bo

our guest today is fbi director robert muller discussing security threats concerning the united states. we would like to ask you a little bit about the national security implications of our energy policy, an issue of much concern in the news and certainly here in silicon valley. what might you say about the relationship between energy policy and some of the national security challenges that the fbi is addressing? >> one of the nice things about my job is i generally stay away from policy, but when it comes to energy resources and the like, there are a number of -- you can look at it from the geopolitical perspective, which is not something that really bears on what we do day in and day out. if you put in context the potential cyber attacks and the concerns we have about cyber attacks on our infrastructure, there is an intersection between the vulnerabilities we have and our energy and electrical grids and the like from cyber attacks, which keep all of us busy. i would just go back to one other thing that i did not address in the question before, and that is the balance between privacy

they want -- robert muller. they wanted to come here.s this case better than these two gentlemen. we are really honored that we have friends so high in government that knows this case and care so much about it. i think it is fair to say that it is not just a professional interest. it is personal with these guys. we know the letter that the fbi director sent to the scottish justice minister when he released the prisoners on compassionate grounds, an unprecedented letter objecting to it. we also know that john brennan called the day before he was released and said the same thing, do not release this guy. but eric holder had called back in june and said the same thing, and said that if he was released it would be an outrage and a heroes welcome, which is exactly what happened. we do not talk about people here -- we do not talk about politics here, because this really is to memorialize the people who died, but the best way to honor the people who died is to continue the case for justice. that is why we are honored that eric holder will come

opposition to this they didn't really get they just got some language saying and in fact importantly robert muller who testified before the senate judiciary committee yesterday said he still had concerns so we know that the head of the f.b.i. is not happy with the language that supposedly makes the f.b.i.'s role ok and the only thing that's really left is this is and it's not just i mean i think the administration's concern is not just that they want to be able to indefinitely detain people including american citizens but the language that they use to justify the killing of anwar who remember is an american citizen all comes out of this detention language in fact they actually cited some supreme court rulings that said well the police can chase somebody down and if they kill him if they use deadly force in chasing somebody down because he wouldn't be arrested easily that's ok they use that language on detention to authorize the killing of all aki so i think that's one of the things they wanted to make sure that they left the legal structures they put in place to justify the a lackey killing was an

director robert mueller told senate judiciary committee today he cannot fully support the handling of terrorism suspects. and laid out in that bill. mullerd the lines of authority are not clear enough. ranking republican jeff sessions says theer thor suspects should not be treated like common criminals. dissension among members of the nuclear regulatory commission spilled over to capitol hill today. chief washington correspondent jim angle is there to show us what happened. interesting, jim. >> i'll say, bret. in an extraordinary hearing, all four of the commissioners two democrats and two republicans publicly accused chairman of running roughshod over his colleagues. wreaking havoc with the staff and impeding the agency's work to ensure safety in the nation nuclear plan. >> the rage directed to the board member on the agency staff. all members of the commission including me have been on the receiving end of this conduct. >> this is about bullying and intimidating behavior toward the nrc career staff that should not and cannot be tolerated. >> as they said, the other commissioners laid out one charge after another. withholding the key in