Federal Bureau of Investigation - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Federal Bureau of Investigation Index / Organizations Transcripts Macon Phillips ...buddies had to get interviewed by the FBI for my security clearance, and the... Sally Jewell ...vetting process by [laughs] the FBI and about forty hours that was—consume... ...laborious vetting process before the FBI started crawling around [laughs] ever... ...to hitting the detonate button, but the FBI had infiltrated, and it was a dumm... ...change the fact that we listened to the FBI in Malheur and just allowed it to pla... Penny Pritzker ...objectives of criminal justice of the FBI . Now, what do you do? Both are vali... Chuck Freedman ...I had a lot of political activity. The FBI had collected a dossier on me from m... Bronwen Solyom ...to go. They said, "Don't you dare the FBI will photograph you and you jus... ...got deported. He got-- [laughs] the FBI caught him, and he didn't ever finis... Ollie Parham ...I'm thinking, Just in case somebody— FBI come up in here, I'm going to make sur... Loretta Lynch ...the local police departments and the FBI and the [New York City Metro] Gang Tas... ...grow at the law enforcement level, both FBI and Secret Service. I saw cooperatio... ...to, working in conjunction with the FBI , work with local law enforcement... ...[New York] had a gang task force. The FBI has a gang task force. And they becam... ...had to provide post-nine-eleven. Former FBI Director Mueller has spoken about thi... ...before the judge had to rule on it, the FBI found an outside company that could, i... ...that local—meaning US attorneys and the FBI offices in those areas—would look a... ...the Department of Justice, which is the FBI and my national security team, we wer... ...the very end, when, unfortunately, the FBI director had different views on how i... ...of the things I regret is, it gave the FBI director cover for something he'd bee... ...major disagreements on anything. The FBI director reports directly to the deput... Show more... Farhana Khera ...there was a wide dragnet by the FBI across the country. While they wer... ...a laundry list, a wish list, that the FBI had had for quite some time of ways i... ...We did speak, particularly, to the FBI . And if I remember correctly, it wa... ...And if I remember correctly, it was FBI director Robert Mueller at the time. ... ...agencies at the border as well as the FBI . We had actually just published ... ...piece was around when I referenced the FBI was specifically for the administratio... ...national security activities by the FBI . As we were discussing earlier, th... ...the PATRIOT Act had broadened the FBI 's authority to engage in all sorts o... ...of counsel if they're approached by the FBI and asked by the FBI to b... ...approached by the FBI and asked by the FBI to be questioned—very common lega... ...They basically kind of became a mini- FBI , mini-CIA for the city of New York... ...Mr. President. If you're allowing the FBI to just broadly target mosques fo... ...two, that would be like the FBI targeting churches for surveillanc... ...The hate crimes data that the FBI collects on a national level relies o... ...time period. It was disclosed that the FBI and the Army—essentially some of tha... ...was now part of training materials for FBI agents and the military and being use... Show more... Eric Holder ...in Washington, DC, in a bunker that the FBI constructed for me while I was attorne... ...met with everybody in DC, including the FBI , the DEA, the ATF, and so had persona... ...with a briefing at eight thirty at the FBI where we'd go over the Presidentia... ...a highway. I remember the agents—I had FBI agents with me—getting out of the cars... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Agriculture Agriculture go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation