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  Bush Bypasses Senate to Install Official
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Last EditedRP  Sep 02, 2005 08:48pm
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News DateFriday, September 2, 2005 02:40:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionPresident Bush has used a constitutional provision to bypass the Senate and fill a top Justice Department slot with an official whose nomination stalled over tactics at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval facility.

Bush used a "recess appointment" Wednesday to name Alice S. Fisher to lead the agency's criminal division. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., had blocked the nomination because he wants to talk to an agent who named Fisher in an e-mail about allegedly abusive interrogations at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo.
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