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The White House's top lawyer is returning to private practice and being replaced by a longtime adviser to Barack Obama.

White House counsel Greg Craig, who's leaving in early January, has been the subject of repeated questions about his future since late summer. Centered on talk that Obama's promise to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison by January had gone awry under Craig's leadership, the questions were settled Friday when the White House announced Craig's departure.

It was the highest-ranking resignation so far in Obama's 10-month presidency, and became public just as the president was arriving in Asia for a weeklong tour. It also came just hours before Attorney ...

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