Durbin: Not So Quick On Nomination

Sen. Durbin has sent a letter to the President asking him to hold the nomination on Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum's bid to become Ambassador to Australia.

(AP/Yahoo)"It appears that the dramatic change in course by the Department of Justice was not the result of any new evidence about smoking cessation or the facts of the case but the result of political pressure on the career prosecutors," Durbin wrote the president. "Senators should be given an independent, unbiased assurance that he did not take any improper actions in the tobacco lawsuit before we are asked to consider his nomination."