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Obama Signals His Reluctance to Look Into Bush Policies

President-elect Barack Obama speaks at a news conference to announce his appointees for CIA Director, former Clinton administration White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, and National Intelligence Director, retired U.S. Navy Admiral Dennis Blair, at his transition office in Washington January 9, 2009. (Jim Young/Reuters)

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama signaled in an interview broadcast Sunday that he was unlikely to authorize a broad inquiry into Bush administration programs like domestic eavesdropping or the treatment of terrorism suspects.

But Mr. Obama also said prosecutions would proceed if the Justice Department found evidence that laws had been broken.

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