The Phones Of Erstwhile Fbi Manager Robert Mueller

(Updated: March 30, 2019)

Last Friday, March 22, exceptional counsel Robert S. Mueller ended his investigation on possible Russian influence inwards the 2016 U.S. of America presidential elections.

Before he was appointed exceptional counsel inwards May 2017, Mueller served 12 years equally manager of the FBI, from September 2001 to September 2013.

Here nosotros accept a facial expression at the telecommunication equipment used yesteryear Robert Mueller when he was leading the FBI, based upon unopen to rare photos of his office.

The component of erstwhile FBI manager Robert S. Mueller, June 4, 2010.
(photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

The FBI Director's office

The component of the Director of the FBI is on the 7th flooring of the FBI headquarters, the brutalistic J. Edgar Hoover Building inwards Washington D.C. Pictures of this room are real rare, simply inwards 2010, The Washington Post provided unopen to views of Robert Mueller inwards his office, which appeared to endure rather modest in addition to with remarkably old-fashioned furniture.

Next to the director's component is a modest executive conference room, equally good with 19th century slice of furniture in addition to a sign that looks equally if it's from a Western movie, proverb "Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation". On the wall there's large basis map, where for a domestic safety service similar the FBI 1 would rather facial expression a map of the United States:

The conference room side yesteryear side to the director's office, June 4, 2010.
(photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Images - click to enlarge)

Telephone systems

In the photos nosotros tin run into that inwards the component of FBI manager Mueller at that topographic point were 4 phones, which belong to 3 unlike telephone systems, 2 for secure in addition to 1 for non-secure calls:

IST phone

The get-go telephone from the left is a large white Integrated Services Telephone (IST), which was designed yesteryear Electrospace Systems Inc. (ESI) in addition to manufactured yesteryear Raytheon. This is a in addition to therefore called "red phone", which way that it's connected to the Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN). This is the master copy secure telephone network for armed services command in addition to command communications in addition to connects all mayor US command centers in addition to many other armed services facilities.

Although this IST telephone looks real futuristic, it has already been replaced yesteryear the newer IST-2, which was introduced inwards 2003. The novel IST-2 was equally good on the president's desk inwards the Oval Office, earlier it was replaced yesteryear a Cisco IP telephone for the novel Executive Voice over Secure IP-network, which provides a highly secured link betwixt the President in addition to his senior cabinet members.

It's interesting to run into that there's no such novel IP telephone inwards the component of the manager of the FBI, which way that he has no forthwith line to the president - according to the fact that FBI falls nether the Department of Justice in addition to the manager of the FBI reports to the Attorney General.

The phones of erstwhile FBI Director Robert Mueller

STE phone

Next to the IST there's a large dark telephone called Secure Terminal Equipment (STE). It's made yesteryear the American defense forcefulness contractor L-3 Communications (since 2016: L3 Technologies) in addition to is capable of encrypting telephone calls upwards to the grade of Top Secret/SCI. There's equally good an STE telephone at the modest drawer breast inwards the director's conference room.

STE phones tin endure used to brand encrypted calls to anyone with a similar or compatible device in addition to at that topographic point are an estimated 400.000 STE users. STE is the successor of the around legendary STU-III secure telephone organization from the belatedly 1980s.

These STE phones tin endure used for secure communications with everyone working for the US government, the military, its contractors, in addition to equally good unusual partners who tin non endure reached through a to a greater extent than involve secure telephone network, similar the aforementioned DRSN.

Nortel M5216

Finally, at that topographic point were 2 Nortel M5216 Meridian telephones inwards erstwhile manager Mueller's office: 1 with 2 additional 22 clitoris telephone substitution expansion modules on the desk, in addition to 1 without these modules on the standing desk amongst the wall. These phones were used for whatever non-secure calls within in addition to exterior the FBI headquarters.

The M5216 telephone sets were manufactured yesteryear the erstwhile Canadian society Northern Telecom or Nortel in addition to facial expression rather outdated equally they are in all probability from the mid-1990s. The Nortel telephone system itself is fifty-fifty older: it goes dorsum to the SL-1 PBX from 1975, which was gradually enhanced in addition to renamed Meridian-1 inwards the belatedly 1980s.

The organization provides advanced vox in addition to information features for applications ranging from sixty to 16.000 lines in addition to equally good has Centrex capability. It became the get-go fully digital PBX on the global marketplace in addition to it was 1 of the most widely used business telephone systems, with an estimated set out of 43 1 1000 k installed users worldwide.

Computer networks

Besides the 4 telephone sets, there's equally good a reckoner inwards the component of erstwhile FBI manager Mueller, which tin endure seen correct behind the ubiquitous Aeron component chair. H5N1 KVM-switch allows him to operate a unmarried laid of Keyboard, Video in addition to Mouse to access multiple FBI networks on unlike classification levels, like:

- Law Enforcement Online (LEO), which is a web-based organization for sharing information amongst the police push clitoris enforcement community that is running over the internet, classified For Official Use Only.

- Federal Bureau of Investigation Network (FBINet), which is the FBI's intranet in addition to tin solely endure accessed through an FBI computer.

- FBI Secret Network, which tin endure accessed from whatever US authorities reckoner that is connected to the Intelligence Community's INTELINK-S network that is running on the Defense Department's SIPRNet infrastructure, classified upwards to Secret.

- Sensitive Compartmented Information Operational Network (SCION), which is the FBI's designation of the Intelligence Community's INTELINK-TS network that is running on the Defense Department's JWICS infrastructure, classified upwards to Top Secret/SCI.