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| | TIME.com: Robert Mueller: Straight Shooter With a Moving Target -- Page 1 |
 | | When Bob Mueller took the helm of the Justice Department's criminal division in 1990, his subordinates liked to tease him about his Ivy-League roots, his stiffly formal public persona and the pressed blue jeans that were his idea of dressed-down for Saturdays in the office. |
 | | "Mueller's solid and strong-willed, and I think he's the perfect person to lead the FBI, given all the problems that have happened lately," says Bill Baker, who was the assistant director of the FBI for criminal investigations in the first Bush administration, when Mueller was assistant Attorney General for the Justice criminal division. |
 | | Mueller became chief of the U.S. Attorney's office's homicide section where his reputation as a passionate prosecutor came to the attention of Janet Reno, who in 1998 asked him to go to San Francisco to beef up the U.S. Attorney's office, which was then beset by burgeoning computer crime. |
| www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,166567,00.html (1261 words) |
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