Deputy Atty. Gen. James Cole To Quit As Exodus At Justice Continues

[Purveyor]

Source: LA TIMES

By Timothy M. Phelps contact the reporter

Deputy Atty. Gen. James M. Cole will announce Thursday that, like his boss, he will soon leave the Justice Department, according to an administration official.

The departure of Cole, who for four years has been the day-to-day boss of the department, adds to a growing leadership vacuum at the federal government’s top law enforcement agency.

Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder, Jr. announced last month that he would leave as soon as a successor is confirmed, though the Obama administration has so far not announced a replacement.

At least half a dozen other top positions at Justice, including the associate attorney general, the No. 3 job, are currently filled with acting appointees.

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[Faux pas]

1. I was thinking that

there wasn't anything else that could go wrong. We be screwn.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Exodus. Another word tortured by the media because they can.

[Purveyor]

3. I knew I had to use that headline the second I saw it.

Hard to get a colloquy started around this place anymore with just plain vanilla.

[billhicks76]

4. Jeb Bush

They know what's coming.