WASHINGTON — The White House has started interviewing candidates to succeed the stoic FBI Robert S. Mueller III, who is set to step down next year, the website Main Justice reported.
The website reported that it was uncertain who was being considered but it mentioned possible candidates: Ronald Noble, the head of Interpol; Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald; James Comey, former Deputy Attorney General; New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and ex-LA police chief William Bratton.
Mueller, 65, a former U.S. Attorney, took over the FBI Sept. 4, 2001, just before the Sept. 11 attacks that forced the agency to reorganize and commit far more resources to counterterrorism.
