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...Fitzgerald gained national attention after settling in Chicago. The U.S. Attorney's office in the city had been investigating dozens of public officials since 1998, including then Governor George Ryan, and Senator Fitzgerald felt he needed an outsider. "I didn't want somebody who would be under the thumbs of the locals," he says. "He was the most nonpartisan person you could find." Patrick Fitzgerald started work 10 days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
...office prosecuted several prominent terrorists and indicted Ryan in December 2003. Less than a month later, the Justice Department picked Fitzgerald to investigate the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. He pursued the case intensely. When it became apparent that no one would be indicted for the leak of Plame's identity, he didn't let up and, to the media's discomfort, compelled several journalists to testify before the grand jury. He even forced the New York Times' Judith Miller to serve jail time when she wouldn't testify. After Libby was indicted essentially for lying, Fitzgerald...
True to his reputation, Fitzgerald remained as the U.S. Attorney in Chicago throughout the case. When the trial ended Tuesday, he sounded eager to return to his "day job," as he called it, and his next case: the prosecution of press baron Conrad Black for allegedly defrauding shareholders of his Hollinger International media empire. The trial is scheduled to start March...
...when the verdict against Libby came down, it was also a rebuke to that hermetic power-sharing arrangement at the top of the White House. The legal outcome was never in doubt. Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had been massing evidence of perjury for months and then unveiled it piece by piece until even the defendant chose not to testify in his own defense. Libby's highly touted defense lawyers, meanwhile, seemed weak and scattered. Their promise to reveal how the White House had left Libby to be the fall guy for higher-ups was introduced and then abandoned...
...charge of revealing her identity, it is hard not to conclude that Libby cooked up his stories to protect Cheney. If Libby had gone a different route and admitted in his grand jury testimony that he had told a reporter about the identity of Wilson's wife, Fitzgerald's next question would have been, Were you acting on Cheney's orders? And it would not have been long before Cheney was giving testimony under oath. There was, said Fitzgerald in his summation, "a cloud over what the Vice President did." (See America's worst vice presidents...