FBI chief rallies local agents

FBI Director Robert Mueller, meeting with agents in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, vowed to capture fugitive polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.

"My expectation is we will catch him. He is a fugitive and an important fugitive. That's why he's on the Ten Most Wanted list," Mueller said.

Mueller was in Salt Lake City as part of a nationwide tour of FBI field offices. After delivering a pep talk to FBI agents in Utah, Mueller met with reporters for about 13 minutes on a variety of topics:

Warren Jeffs

Mueller said his visit included a briefing on the nationwide manhunt for the fugitive Fundamentalist LDS Church leader.

The FBI director said they were using a number of resources to find Jeffs. He defended placing the fugitive polygamist on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, among criminals like terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

"This is a person that preys on children," Mueller said. "I would expect that most of the American public would view a person such as this as a person that belongs behind bars."

Jeffs, 50, is charged in Utah and Arizona with sex crimes accusing him of forcing teenage girls into polygamous marriages with older men. Federal prosecutors have charged him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. A $100,000 bounty is being offered for information leading to Jeffs' arrest.

Jack Anderson papers

The FBI wants 50 years of papers compiled by muckraker journalist Jack Anderson, who died in 2005 at age 83.

Mueller said the FBI has information that classified documents dealing with national security are among Anderson's papers. Anderson's family has said it would not comply with FBI requests.

"Our effort has been to identify what those documents might be before they're publicized and determine whether or not there would be an adverse impact on national security if they were made public," he said. "That has been the sole interest we have in those documents."

Mueller deflected questions about the Bush administration pushing for prosecution of journalists who publish classified information and refuse to reveal their sources.

"We're trying to determine whether or not national security would be adversely impacted by the disclosure of these documents. That's our sole intent," he said. "I hardly think that is an assault on the press."

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