director robert muller said mike was not motivated by recognition but by the desire to get the job done, help others and see those around him succeed. though he shied away from the spotlight, renaming this building in which he invested so much of himself offers a fitting recognition in the lasting tribute to one of our nation's most dedicated public servants. the president characterized as no less than an american hero, and i hope we remember that as we debate the issue of a shutdown of the federal government. our federal government is still with such noble public servants serving this country. let me close by thanking, again, the chairman and ranking member of the transportation and infrastructure committee and the subcommittee on economic development, public buildings and emergency management, and i urge passage of this fitting tribute this legislation this morning. with that i yield back to the distinguished ranking member. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia yields back. the gentleman from indiana is recognized. mr. carson: mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of m

he would replace robert muller 2001.as served since from the senate judiciary committee. this is two hours and 40 minutes. >> before we start i understand who watches and i don't want anyone in the audience to be blocked. if anybody stands up and blocks view that person will be removed. hether they are demonstrating for or against any position i might take or for or against any senator grassley or any other senator might take or for r against a position mr. comey might take that person will be removed. i don't think so it will be necessary. 'm sure everybody will want decorum but i thought just so understand what the ground rules are. i want the american public to heard. khapchance to be today, as we know, we will the until nation of james comey jr. to be the federal irector of the bureau of investigation. the current director, robert mueller mueller, started just a week efore the terrorist attacks of september 11. our world has changed time.ically in that we have often debated how best enisssure our national securit while protecting the privacy as a great define us natio

director robert muller tough and a straight shooter wow rejected insane overage of government surveillance maybe isn't so bad after all before we hail him as a civil liberties hero let's take a closer look at his track record first starters although he initially opposed warrantless domestic spying he eventually agreed to it but that's just the beginning remember jose padilla the u.s. citizen who is suspected of aiding terrorists back in two thousand and two one step receiving due process the deal was held for three and a half years in a military prison as an enemy combatant there he was kept in blacked out isolation and tortured repeatedly now i'm only bringing this indefinite detention case of a u.s. citizen up because james komi fully endorsed it saying quote we'll figure out down the road what to do with jose but the administration could not care less about a criminal case when right now before us is the need to protect american citizens yes protecting american citizens means foregoing their constitutionally guaranteed rights that makes perfect sense but while we're on the subject of to

director robert muller tough and a straight shooter wow rejected insane overreach of government surveillance maybe isn't so bad after all before we hail him as a civil liberties hero let's take a closer look at his track record first starters although he initially opposed warrantless domestic spying he has ventured agreed to it but that's just the beginning remember jose padilla the u.s. citizen who is suspected of aiding terrorists back in two thousand and two on started receiving due process the deal was held for three and a half years in a military prison as an enemy combatant there he was kept in blacked out isolation and tortured repeatedly now i'm only bringing this indefinite detention case of a u.s. citizen up because james komi fully endorsed it saying quote we'll figure out down the road what to do with jose but the administration could not care less about a criminal case when right now before us is the need to protect american citizens. yes protecting american citizens means foregoing their constitutionally guaranteed rights that makes perfect sense but while we're on the subject

. >> robert muller makes his last scheduled appearance before the senate judiciary committee, today at 10:00 eastern. today at 10:00, the nsa before and after 911 on booktv. key house with judiciary staff, investigating whether there were grounds to impeach president nixon, sunday at 3:00 on c-span3. guest: this is a challenging time for people who are conservatives. we have a liberal president who has not only been elected and reelected after putting into place some ideas and programs and products that i think are very wrong-headed. the public had a chance to re- elect him. a it is an exciting time. what i tried to do and many others try to do is modernize conservatism, bring it in line with the challenges the country faces now. health conservatives and therefore the country on how to confront the challenges of the 20th century. there's a lot of opportunity on thinking about what americans in -- to get backy to prosperity and a four revival that we need. it is challenging, but exciting. >> more with yuval levin, sunday "q &a."on c-span po's >> "washington journal" continues. sanders.h

director robert muller revealing the agency is using drones, yes, to spy right here on american soil. >> does the f.b.i. use drones for surveillance on u.s. soil? >> yes. >> i want to go on to a question -- >> let me just put it in context, though. very, very minimal way. very seldom. >> gretchen: almost let that question pass. muller didn't give specifics of how many drones are being used. he also says the f.b.i. is still working to establish the proper rules for using them above american soil. that will come as a shock to a lot of people. but it looked like the senator was going to let it go, but maybe he was in shock. >> brian: i wish we came up with the rules and then do it. >> steve: trust them. they want us to trust them. >> gretchen: meantime, he's the reporter who brought down general stanley mccrystal. this morning a brand-new report michael hastings was being followed by the f.b.i hastings was killed when his car crossed the median in hollywood, california and slamd into a tree. right before that, he reportedly told the web site, wikileaks, the f.b.i. was watching him. a pho

director robert muller testifies on capitol hill tomorrow -- robert mueller testifies tomorrow. plus more coverage of the senate judiciary committee on c-span3 at 10:00 a.m. eastern. on our next "washington journal" we will talk to house foreign affairs member gerald connolly about the conflict in syria and a new president being elected in iran. then we will speak to republican scott perry of pennsylvania. we will talk to later, or spotlight on magazine series continues. a christian science monitor discuss will discussion his article about prayer in schools, 50 years after the supreme court banned the practice. they we will take your calls live on c-span. >> let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our differences and the means by which those differences can be resolved. and if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. all freeree men are -- en are citizens. >> from west berlin we see a much different kennedy to the cuban missile crisis. then we see another one who is preparing the ground for a r

. >> brian: that wouldn't affect robert muller. i wouldn't think, because he's independent. but i would say this, the other questions, i don't think he has any idea about. i don't think he was covering up. i think he has no idea and seems to be no interest in the irs investigation. >> steve: that shows the priorities. >> brian: yeah. doesn't seem to have any interest in benghazi. and the crazy thing is, we actually heard them talking, we got the intercepts, maybe through the nsa. we know exactly where they were located for weeks, for months. they're now disbursed and gone. they are still walking around. it's been months and there is not one person, except a blurry overhead shot of two guys of interest. >> steve: that's what muller said yesterday. well, we had some suspects and got some video. >> brian: right. >> steve: and? >> brian: here is rudy guiliani. he's disturbed by this. >> seems terribly disengaged. i mean, i was at the highest level of the justice department during the reagan administration for some very serious and very sensitive investigations. if you asked me w

director robert muller, came up and was asked about another provision that was expiring, the lone wolfe provision and they asked: have you found that to be helpful? and highly classified. we can't talk about it but we found it to be helpful. it turned out the justice department admitted it had never been used. >> really? >> so, you know we have to take these claims where we have no information, no ability for the public to look at these programs with a grain of sought and say show me rather than just tell me. >> we haven't seen any solid evidence that this meta database has stopped any terrorist attack? >> no. and there is a 2008 study by the national academy of science on data mining for terrorists saying it's not mathematical feasible and would create so many false positives that it would never work. >> bill: you know, this is a dumb question but that's what i do, ask dumb questions, i guess. but i have been thinking while you have been talking about boston. i mean these two kids were online, e-mailing to this radical cleric and friends of theirs overseas. they were e-mailing like bac

muller as head of the f.b.i. became head of the agency just seven days after the september eleventh attacks and washington was wall are to. say whistleblower john kiriakou is speaking out former cia operative best known for blowing the whistle on the cia's use of waterboarding is speaking out from behind bars initially charged under the espionage act karaoke three months into his thirty month sentence having pled guilty to lesser charges and a letter sent to his attorney just a lot of rhetoric which was published with his consent on the blog fire dog lake carry on details experience inside the federal correctional facility in laredo concealed mania. being designated as a public safety threat. describes being moved to serve a sentence in the general population rather than a federal work camp as previously discussed kiriakou went on to say that his reputation has preceded him while in the radio and described various run ins with commanding officers one verbal exchange ending in the following an hour later for ceo's

then robert muller testifies on his agency's 2014 budget request. later, eric holder testifies that a justice department oversight hearing. >> how do feel about describing this in 30 seconds? >> i will make the attempt. >> if you cut this into pieces, you go something from this piece to this big. times, we get 10 the size. suppose you did that 35 times. we have not enchantments to measure this. we are working on a piece of mathematics to answer that question. wife is often asked by people who find out i am a theoretical physicist, what does your husband do that her answer is he makes of stuff for a living. people know what novelists do. they take works and sentences and tell stories. a theoretical physicist does the same thing is that we use mathematics to tell our stories. -- accept we use mathematics to tell their stories. it corresponds was something in nature. that little clip was my attempt to boil down to a 32nd sound describing what it is me and my community due to understand the world. gates, jr. tonight at 8:00. the senate judiciary committ

director robert muller joined the meeting to discuss these matters with representatives from the organizations. the conversation with director muller centered on material used by the agency that depicts falsehoods and negative connotations of the muslim american community. the use of the material was first uncovered by "wired" magazine. and that was uncovered by an organization that seems to be right in there with those who were unindicted by named co-conspirators in funding terrorism. from isna they say director muller informed the participants that the f.b.i. took the review of the training material very seriously and he pursued the matter with urgency to ensure that this does not occur again in the future. isna president, who's a frequent visitor to the white house, who the white house consults on speeches or has and welcomed to the inner sanctum of the state department, other democratics here in washington, he stated -- other departments here in washington, he stated that the discovery of f.b.i. training materials that discriminated against muslims did damage to the trust that was built be

director robert muller. everyone in the picture you see here will be back here for another briefing this morning. yesterday the president said for the first time, the boston bombing was a terrorist attack. >> any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror. what we don't yet know, however, is who carried out this attack or why, whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual. >> federal officials seem to suspect it's a home grown attack. neither the director of national intelligence nor the head of the c.i.a. is on the list of people attending the white house briefings yesterday and today. f.b.i. agent believes someone probably in boston knows the bomber. >> we're asking anyone who may have heard someone speak about the marathon or the date of april 15 in any way that indicated that he or she may target the event to call us. someone knows who did this. >> authorities say they received more than 2,000

in that photo he's talking to robert muller. obviously in the middle of a massive federal investigation to get to the bottom of this. you see in the photo, dennis mcdonough, his homeland security advisor, they are clearly trying to get on top of this investigation, but also coordinating with local and state officials to make sure this administration is doing all it can to help people on the ground sort all of this out. we should note they've been cautious so far on whether or not it is terrorism. the vice president was doing a previously scheduled conference call earlier about gun control and on that just said offhand that it was a bombing, as if it were not an accident, but did not use the specific word terror, though we're just getting a two-minute warning that the president will be out. so we'll hear as to whether he will call this terrorism. we know the diane feinstein has moments ago called this an act of terror, though she said it's unclear whether it's a foreign source of terrorism or whether this was home grown terrorism