周三有消息称，美国总统奥巴马有望提名前布什政府官员詹姆斯?科米担任FBI局长。

　　一旦经参议院证实，詹姆斯?科米，共和党员，将接替现任联邦调查局局长邦罗伯特?米勒，米勒早在2001年的“9?11”袭击事件前就执掌FBI，将于今年秋天卸任。

　　白宫对此不予置评，但消息称奥巴马近些天来一直倾向提名詹姆斯?科米。尚未确定正式宣布的时间。

　　现年52岁的科米曾在布什任职期间，担任美国司法部副部长，之前任职纽约南区检察官。

　　WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is expected to nominate former Justice Department official James Comey as his next head of the FBI, a source said on Wednesday.

　　If confirmed by the Senate, Comey, a Republican, would replace FBI Director Robert Mueller, who has led the agency since just before the September 11, 2001, attacks. Mueller is expected to step down this fall.

　　The White House would not comment on Obama's decision but the source said Obama had been leaning toward Comey in recent days. It was unclear when an announcement would be made.

　　Comey, 52, served as deputy U.S. attorney general for President George W. Bush. He had previously been the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

　　In an earlier post as assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Comey handled the Khobar Towers bombing case that arose out of an attack on a U.S. military facility in Saudi Arabia in 1996. Seventeen U.S. military members died in the attack.

　　Comey gained notoriety for refusing in 2004 to certify the legal aspects of National Security Agency domestic surveillance during a stint as acting attorney general while John Ashcroft was hospitalized with pancreatitis.