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Attorney General Hatch?
Among the more persistent Washington rumors has Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch replacing embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The rumor has had a pretty good shelf life despite consistent insistence from the White House that Gonzales isn’t going anywhere.
Today we got official word that Peter Carr, Hatch’s press secretary, is leaving that post to become deputy director of public affairs at the Department of Justice, the agency headed by the attorney general.
Obviously, this move puts Carr in place to continue to work with Hatch when the senator becomes the attorney general.
No, says Carr.
“I don’t expect him to,” Carr said when asked if his boss will follow him to Justice. “He says there’s no truth to the rumors.”
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