BEFORE KENNETH WAINSTEIN CAN get down to the dirty business of saving Americans from terrorism, he has a few things to check off his to-do list.
For starters, his staff of intelligence experts, spy prosecutors, and counterterror lawyers are scattered throughout the main Justice Department headquarters and another office building several blocks away. He inherits a backlog of unprocessed applications for secret wiretapping warrants, and his counterterrorism prosecutors have been without a permanent chief for much of the year. Meanwhile, Wainstein still is waiting for routine items like a nameplate for his office door and business cards for his top deputies.
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