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When the U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago needed a new top prosecutor in 2001, then Senator Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois called Louis Freeh, director of the FBI, for advice. "I asked, 'Who is the best Assistant U.S. Attorney in the nation?'" he recalls. "Freeh said, 'Patrick Fitzgerald.'" The Senator, who is not related, then called Mary Jo White, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. "I asked her who was the best assistant in her office. She said, 'Patrick Fitzgerald...
...Whether Patrick Fitzgerald still ranks among the nation's best prosecutors is open to debate, but his success in securing the conviction of I. Lewis Libby on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice probably won't hurt his standing. Fitzgerald pursued the Libby case with the same persistence he has shown throughout a 19-year career dogging drug lords, Mafia kingpins and assorted terrorists. He tolerates no obstacle, especially lying, which he once compared to "throwing sand in the umpire's face...
...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...
...Bush may have an incentive to at least keep the door open to a possible pardon, rather than foreclosing it now, as Democrats insist. In his first comments after the verdict, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald hinted that he might argue for leniency in Libby's sentencing if Dick Cheney's former aide decided to cooperate with the government now that he's been convicted. "Mr. Libby is like any other defendant. If his counsel or he wish to pursue any options, they can contact us," said Fitzgerald. Without the possibility of a Presidential pardon, Libby would presumably have more incentive...
...That's because in the course of the Libby investigation and trial the CIA effectively lost the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. In deciding not to charge Libby or anyone else in the administration with exposing a covert operative, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald all but proclaimed the act virtually unenforceable. If it had any teeth, Fitzgerald would have used it not only against Libby but also Karl Rove and Undersecretary of State Richard Armitage, the two who leaked Plame's name in the first place. Or even possibly Washington Post columnist Bob Novak, who first published...