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Obama plans to nominate Comey as next FBI director

President Obama plans to nominate James B. Comey, a former senior Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration, to replace Robert S. Mueller III as FBI director, according to two people with knowledge of the selection process.

Comey, 52, who since leaving government has served as general counsel at Lockheed Martin and worked as an executive at a hedge fund, currently teaches at Columbia Law School.

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