It telegraphs that the agency will be a bad, argumentative partner for the client, and it suggests dissention and disorganization.

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Academic selection is not the only issue causing dissention.

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Alberto Gonzales came in soon after as attorney general with the mandate of bringing the department back in line with the White House and to make sure such dissention would not happen again.

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