Frank Figliuzzi, who worked under Mueller as assistant director for counterintelligence, noted that Louis Freeh, who led the bureau for the eight years prior to Mueller, titled his memoir My FBI. “That title alone is something that Mueller would never say,” Figliuzzi said. “Rather, what he would say is, ‘I am a temporary caretaker of the FBI. It’s not my FBI. It’s the American people’s FBI, and I am supposed to run it for a while.’ ” Lisa Monaco, Mueller’s chief of staff, recalled she would never allow the word “I” to appear in drafts of his speeches. “He literally would cross out ‘I’—every
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