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Published 11/18/2008 by Juliet Eilperin and Carol D. Leonnig at Wash Post Obama Administration
Just weeks before leaving office, the Interior Department's top lawyer has shifted half a dozen key deputies -- including two former political appointees who have been involved in controversial environmental decisions -- into senior civil service posts.
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