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Biden s Choice for Justice Dept. s No. 2 Is Lisa Monaco Katie Benner © Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times Lisa Monaco is poised to become the deputy attorney general, where her ability to broker consensus on politically charged issues will quickly be tested. WASHINGTON Lisa Monaco was President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser when she was handed an intractable problem: Fix the administration’s ineffective response to the kidnappings of Americans by Islamic State fighters, which had prompted outcries from victims’ families, without changing the government’s refusal to make concessions to terrorists. Ms. Monaco quickly instituted a change, according to Matthew Olsen, a former director of the National Counterterrorism Center. She mandated that the families, who had been kept in the dark about the government’s restrictions and had even faced threats of prosecution should they pay ransoms themselves, be brought into the fold. Most had l

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