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Tribune Politics BlogMore evidence that new Attorney General Michael Mukasey is running a more transparent and inclusive shop than his predecessors John Ashcroft and, especially, Alberto Gonzales:
Mukasey announced today that he's appointing Chicago federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to the Attorney General's advisory committee of U.S. attorneys.
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Mukasey still has a sticky call to make connected to the Plame case. He has to decide whether to allow Congress to have transcripts of investigators' interviews with Bush, Cheney and former White House senior advisor Karl Rove.
Fitzgerald's appointment comes on the heels of yesterday's announcement by Mukasey that the Justice Department will open a criminal investigation -- to be headed by a career prosecutor from outside Main Justice -- into the CIA's destruction of videotaped interrogations of terrorism suspects.
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