FBI Director Robert Mueller is sworn in on on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to testifying before the House Judiciary Committee as it holds an oversight hearing on June 13, 2013. President George W. Bush nominated him to head the FBI in 2001 and he was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. In May of 2011, President Barack Obama asked Mueller to stay on an additional two years past the end of his ten year term He stayed through 2013 and was replaced by James Comey. Mueller was called upon in 2017 by then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to lead a special counsel investigation into if the Donald Trump presidential campaign had colluded with Russia to throw the 2016 presidential election in his favor. After two years he presented the report to Trump’s A.G. William Barr, who then released a redacted version on April 18, 2019. In it Mueller determined “While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
