Turks Silence Pro-Axis Papers
Date: 07 August 1944
Govt closes 2 pro-Axis Istanbul papers
Robert Swan Mueller III (; born August 7, 1944) is an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.
A graduate of Princeton University and New York University, Mueller served as a Marine Corps officer during the Vietnam War, receiving a Bronze Star for heroism and a Purple Heart. He subsequently attended the University of Virginia School of Law. Mueller is a registered Republican in Washington, D.C., and was appointed and reappointed to Senate-confirmed positions by presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
Mueller has served both in government and private practice. He was an assistant United States attorney, a United States attorney, United States assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division, a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C., acting United States deputy attorney general, partner at D.C. law firm WilmerHale and director of the FBI. He is the only FBI director that Congress has allowed to serve more than the statutory limit of 10 years since the death of J. Edgar Hoover in 1972 by giving him a special two-year extension.
On May 17, 2017, Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as special counsel overseeing an investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and related matters. He submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr on March 22, 2019. On April 18, the Department of Justice released it. On May 29, he resigned his post and the Office of the Special Counsel was closed.
Read more...The August 7, 1944 was a Monday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 219 day of the year. President of the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
If you were born on this day, you are 81 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, August 7, 2025, 287 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, August 7, 2026, in 77 days. You have lived for 29,872 days, or about 716,941 hours, or about 43,016,516 minutes, or about 2,580,990,960 seconds.
Date: 07 August 1944
Govt closes 2 pro-Axis Istanbul papers
Date: 07 August 1944
Moscow press hails US break-through into Brittany
Date: 07 August 1944
By ALEXANDER D. NOYES
Date: 08 August 1944
By The Associated Press
3 armies begin E Prussia pincers drive; Bagramian forces drive toward Tilsit and Memel, taking Saukenai, Kursenai and other places; other forces take Andrusaiciai and Plingiai; Moscow radio repts Natl Free Ger Com appeal to trapped Ger Baltic Army to surrender; map
Date: 07 August 1944
Condlon, Edward J
Date: 08 August 1944
US troops besiege trapped Ger garrison with leaflets, St Malo
Date: 07 August 1944
By WARREN MOSCOWSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Dewey rests at Pawling farm
Date: 08 August 1944
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Date: 07 August 1944
Market reaction to war news