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DOJ's Litvack hiring was D.C.'s worst-kept secret

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Former Assistant Attorney General Sandy Litvack was perhaps overly excited when he told friends he was returning to the Department of Justice's antitrust division for an "opportunity of a lifetime," involving potential litigation in the Network and Technology section. 

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His announcement, sent via letter to colleagues, was widely circulated in the antitrust bar and was an inadvertent red flag that the federal government is seriously considering a legal challenge to Yahoo! Inc.'s pending major venture with Google Inc. That section has been investigating the proposed agreement between search giant Google and rival Yahoo! for months. - Cecile Kohrs Lindell

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