| | In interviews with USA TODAY, Michael Mukasey and Alberto Gonzales said that installing Whitaker as acting attorney general may have skirted established rules of succession. The two former George W. Bush administration attorneys general said the vacancy should have been filled by a Justice Department official who has been confirmed by the Senate. "Even Richard Nixon didnât put in somebody as acting attorney general who had not been confirmed," Mukasey said.
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