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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says two suspected Iraqi terrorists, captured in his home state of Kentucky, should be sent to Guantanamo Bay for trial. Attorney General Eric Holder says that's not a decision politicians should make. Holder lost an earlier political battle over trying Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York.

In an extended interview with NPR, Eric Holder blamed Congress for blocking the New York trial of the accused masterminds of the Sept. 11 attacks. He said terrorism was the Justice Department's top priority, and "deplored" the release of the WikiLeaks memos.

Earlier this month, the Justice Department created a special task force, putting a veteran mob prosecutor in charge. Analysts say putting criminal prosecutors in charge instead of environmental prosecutors could mean something important for BP and other likely targets.

The FBI and a U.S. attorney are "assessing" alleged misdeeds during last year's mayoral campaign. Attorney General Eric Holder has said he voted for Mayor Vincent Gray and he attended Gray's inauguration.

In a federal gun trafficking investigation dubbed Operation Fast and Furious, hundreds of guns allegedly flowed from the U.S. to Mexico. Republicans say some of those weapons can be traced to the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. In hearings on Capitol Hill this week, Attorney General Eric Holder tried to explain what he knew, and when.

The FBI has told agents that in "exceptional cases" they can question suspects for a longer amount of time before reading them their Miranda rights. There must be an "immediate threat" to public safety.

Elena Kagan's treatment of military recruiters at Harvard Law School took center stage Tuesday on her second day of confirmation hearings to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. In tones at times emotional and steely, Kagan defended her record as a Harvard dean, even when challenged by Sen. Jeff Sessions.

Five years after Congress expressed alarm at rape in U.S. prisons, the Justice Department is in danger of missing a deadline for new standards targeting the problem. An unusual coalition of groups is calling for action, but corrections officials say wholesale changes will cost too much.

While Republicans in Congress and the Justice Department trade accusations over who approved the operation, the bigger effort to take down violent drug and gun traffickers is getting lost in politics.

Bauer will be replaced by a veteran prosecutor, Kathleen Ruemmler. She has spent most of her career at the Justice Department. She started out handling drug and crime cases in Washington D.C. then then took on a leading role in the prosecution of former Enron executives.