And so far he has turned to his army friends for help; appointing 12 former military officers to high-level positions in the attorney general's office.
Despite his identification as a security risk, Mr. Herrera was not dismissed then, but was reassigned to another high-level position within the Attorney General's Office, Mr. Ledwith said.
Vargas, who has written to the Justice Department requesting a federal investigation into the case, said he was assured his letter was the "subject of high-level discussions" in the federal attorney general's office over the weekend.
Some black advocates and organizers said that Mr. Obama's selection of a number of blacks to high-level positions, including Eric H. Holder Jr. as attorney general, Susan E. Rice as ambassador to the United Nations and Valerie Jarrett as senior adviser, makes it more likely that the new administration would supplant the caucus on black issues, or at least provide alternative levers of power.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have detained 12 federal police investigators accused of leaking information to hit men who ambushed and killed eight officers in a failed attempt to free a high-level drug gang member, the Mexican Attorney General's Office said Thursday.
Analysis of key stakeholders and interviews with them revealed that the political influence of YKP is high because of its connections, through blood and marriage ties, with high-level individuals at the Supreme Court, police force, the Attorney General, and the House of Representatives.
But by 2004 John Ashcroft, then US attorney general, said she was among seven high-level al-Qaida suspects still at large.
A similar high-level intervention would clearly be allowed in the regular court system, where the attorney general supervises prosecutions.
One F.B.I. report summarized a high-level debriefing of a Jordanian informant named Ahmed Y. Ashwas by the United States attorney in Chicago.
It also cost two high-level officials their jobs -- on August 30, ATF acting director Kenneth Melson and U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke announced their resignations.
