{"id":346313,"date":"2026-03-21T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/robert-mueller-former-fbi-director-and-special-counsel-dies-at-81"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:21:14","slug":"robert-mueller-former-fbi-director-and-special-counsel-dies-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/robert-mueller-former-fbi-director-and-special-counsel-dies-at-81","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mueller, former FBI director and particular counsel, dies at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who led the bureau in the tumultuous decade following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and who later served as special counsel overseeing the politically charged investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, has died, his family announced. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;With deep sadness, we are sharing the news that Bob passed away last night,&#8221; a family statement said. &#8220;His family asks that their privacy be respected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/robert-mueller-former-fbi-director-special-counsel-dies\/story?id=112685092\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who led the bureau in the tumultuous decade following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and who later served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23755,23760,1750,23759,1923,23754,23752,7315,23750,23757,9510],"class_list":["post-346313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-assistant-united-states-attorneys","tag-bob","tag-director","tag-director-and-particular-counsel","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-mueller","tag-particular-counsel","tag-presidential-election","tag-robert-mueller","tag-robert-muller","tag-russian-interference-in-the-2016-united-states-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346315,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346313\/revisions\/346315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}