11 Facts About Aaron Zebley

Aaron Mortimer Zebley is an American attorney and former FBI special agent who was the deputy special counsel of the Special Counsel investigation headed by Robert Mueller.

Aaron Zebley was the former chief of staff to Mueller at the FBI.

Aaron Zebley graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1996.

Aaron Zebley was an FBI special agent working for the bureau's Counterterrorism Division for seven years.

Aaron Zebley was on the arrest team that captured one of the embassy bombers, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, in October 1999 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Aaron Zebley was one of the investigators who built the case against Zacarias Moussaoui, who was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment.

Aaron Zebley was a summary witness in Moussaoui's penalty proceeding, testifying to the ways in which Moussaoui's confession in 2005 could have helped track down the September 11 hijacks in the month before the attacks, had he provided truthful information when first arrested.

Aaron Zebley later joined the United States Department of Justice, where he was first an Assistant US Attorney in the Alexandria, Virginia-based National Security and Terrorism Unit and later a senior counsel in the National Security Division, holding the position of senior counselor.

Aaron Zebley served as chief of staff to Robert Mueller when Mueller was Director of the FBI and in 2014 followed Mueller to the law firm WilmerHale, where he served as partner for three years.

In May 2017, after Mueller was appointed as special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, Aaron Zebley resigned from WilmerHale to join the Special Counsel investigative team.

On June 2,2021, the University of Virginia announced that Zebley would be teaching a course entitled "The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel" during the fall semester, along with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and former Special Counsel's Office members James L Quarles and Andrew D Goldstein.