Robert Mueller was the Director of the FBI during the years immediately following September 11, 2001. Per John Kiriakou: on July 31, 2002 — the day CIA Director George Tenet went to the White House and successfully asked President George W. Bush to remove the FBI from the CIA black site holding Abu Zubaydah — Mueller withdrew the entire FBI presence from the country.[1][2]
Kiriakou: “Robert Mueller, who was the FBI director at the time, decided to withdraw all FBI personnel — not just from the secret site but from the country that the secret site was in. He’s like, ‘We know what these CIA guys are going to do; they’re going to go completely nuts; we don’t want any part of it.’ Everybody withdrew within 48 hours. The CIA began to torture Abu Zubaydah.”[3][4]