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Report: Holder Taps Two U.S. Attorneys to Lead Leak Probes

Updated: May 29, 2013 | 9:59 p.m.
June 8, 2012 | 7:23 p.m.

Attorney General Eric Holder appointed two U.S. attorneys to lead a pair of criminal investigations into possible unauthorized disclosures of classified information, the Associated Press reported on Friday.

Ronald Machen, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland, will direct separate probes that are currently being conducted by the FBI, Holder said, according to the AP.

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