Now that David Ogden is leaving as U.S. Deputy Attorney General, the speculation about his replacement has already begun. Names being floated include:

American University law school professor Dan Marcus, a former Justice Department official and White House lawyer who also worked on the 9/11 Commission. But others, especially Acting Deputy AG Gary Grindler, Associate AG Tom Perrelli and Assistant AG for National Security David Kris, are still in the mix.

You know, in recent articles about Attorney General Holder’s first year, he has been dinged for a lack of national security and foreign counter intelligence experience. One remedy would be to make David Kris DAG.

Kris, currently the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, is the co-author of National Security Investigation and Prosecution, ©Thompson West 2007 and has forgotten more about this area of law than the rest of us will cumulatively know in a lifetime.

A couple years ago, I him invited to speak to an organization of retired Law Enforcement types; he has the speaking ability, judgment and tact necessary to communicate and “sell” a policy proposal to Beltway insiders and the general public.

Holder will need someone with Kris’s chops since he appears to have become the Administration’s piñata du jour, what with Janet Napalitano throwing Holder under the bus.