-Caveat Lector-
FBI director search centers on 3 candidates
June 7, 2001 Posted: 3:21 PM EDT (1921 GMT)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A longtime federal prosecutor, a former top
Justice Department official and a federal judge in New York City are the
candidates to be FBI director, a Bush administration official said
Thursday.
The official said President Bush has yet to interview any of the
candidates -- the U.S. attorney in San Francisco, Robert Mueller; George
Terwilliger, deputy attorney general at the Justice Department under
Bush's father; and Sterling Johnson, U.S. District judge in Brooklyn.
If Johnson ends up being selected by Bush and confirmed by the Senate to
the 10-year term, he would be the first black to head the FBI.
The official did not know how soon Bush would interview any or all of
the candidates and when he would make his decision. The official
expressed "95 percent" certainty that there were no other candidates
under consideration.
Bush has been searching for someone to run the federal law enforcement
agency after FBI Director Louis Freeh announced more than a month ago he
would depart by the end of June.
Bush has emphasized he wants someone with strong management skills to
run the FBI. The FBI came under fire when it only recently turned over
thousands of pages of documents to lawyers for Oklahoma City bomber
Timothy McVeigh, who wants a U.S. appeals court to stay his June 11
execution.
The official said no date has been set for Freeh's departure.
Johnson attended law school at night while working as a New York City
police officer. He eventually ended up as a sergeant supervising other
detectives. He served as New York City's special narcotics prosecutor
when Bush's father named him to the bench in 1990.
Terwilliger, who is in private law practice in Washington, D.C., was
part of Bush's legal team during the disputed Florida presidential vote.
He formerly was a federal prosecutor in Vermont and in Washington, D.C.
Mueller recently served as acting deputy attorney general and headed the
Justice Department's criminal division under Bush's father. He also
worked as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., and in Boston.
Two candidates no longer under consideration are Joel Flaum, the chief
judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals based in Chicago, and Chicago
attorney Dan Webb, the official said.
Copyright 2001 Reuters. All rights reserved.
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