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Bush May Name Friend to Prominent Justice Dept Post

HeadlineAug 08, 2005

Newsweek is reporting that President Bush is considering naming his personal friend Robert McCallum to replace outgoing Deputy Attorney General James Comey. Comey has been the only official overseeing special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation over who within the Bush administration leaked the identity of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame. McCallum currently serves as Associate Attorney General. He is friends with President Bush and is a fellow member of the secretive Skull and Bones society at Yale University.

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