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Published 1/6/2009 by Carrie Johnson and Robert Barnes at Wash Post Obama Administration
President-elect Barack Obama selected four prominent lawyers yesterday for senior posts at the Justice Department, naming pragmatic leaders who are likely to reverse some of the more divisive policies of the Bush administration.
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