Comey served twice in the second Bush administration. | AP Photo
Politico
President Barack Obama will announce Friday that he is nominating James Comey, a former hedge fund executive and senior Bush administration official, to be the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
A White House official said the president will unveil the long-expected pick — widely reported in late May — at an afternoon ceremony. If confirmed by the Senate, Comey would replace Robert Mueller, who’s led the FBI since September 2001.
The pick puts a registered Republican who served twice in the George W. Bush administration — as U.S. attorney in Manhattan, and deputy attorney general — into an important and sensitive post.
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