Fitzgerald questions await Gonzales

[deminks]

Source: Chicago Tribune

Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald are scheduled to appear together Tuesday for the first time since information surfaced that Fitzgerald received a mediocre rating in a Justice Department review, a revelation that produced head-scratching from Chicago to Washington.

Gonzales is scheduled to appear at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago to discuss the "Project Safe Childhood" campaign -- designed to protect kids from online predators -- with Fitzgerald and Ernie Allen, chief executive of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. But he's likely to face reporters' questions about Fitzgerald being ranked as undistinguished on a chart sent from his department to the White House in 2005, as well as the controversial fall firings of a group of U.S. attorneys.

Fitzgerald's ranking was reported last week in a Washington Post story.

The mediocre rating has been the subject of much joking among prosecutors, federal agents, defense lawyers and the media in the city, especially at the building where Fitzgerald has earned accolades for sweeping public corruption investigations.



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[MADem]

1. Up is down, right is wrong, black is white...this is BushCo, after all.

"WHO KNEW" that getting a shitty evaluation is a badge of honor nowadays?

[NI4NI]

10. Nowadays,

The Department of Justice obstructs justice. And, the Democrats don't support the troops after adding an additional twenty-three billion dollars more than the Chuckle Nutz budget requested in neccessary training before deployment, the equipment, the proper R&R leave time before redeployment, and the needed medical treatment of severe wounds when they return.

This is the warped world of Bush that Dems don't point out loud and long enough.

[lonestarnot]

2. Is he going to ask why he got a C-? While producing A+ work?

[Jim__]

3. Gonzales rating Fitzgerald!

That says a lot about the backwardness of the bush admin.

[MADem]

11. Leadership by the unqualified and incompetent! That's the BushCo way!

[Na Gael]

13. People like

Fitzgerald should be AG. Maybe he will be AG someday...

[Kolesar]

4. The National Center for Missing & Exploited ... Federal Prosecutors

We can put Carol Lam on a milk carton.

[Catherine Vincent]

5. ...

[flamin lib]

6. Those ratings weren't about prosecutorial abilities, they were

all about how loyal a bushy the attorney was. Fitz was only a C- bushy but an A+ attorney.

[Iwasthere]

7. So true

And so sad.

[Monkeyman]

8. Dam now we have to have Chicago Blessed

[LynnTheDem]

9. Fitz's rating is no surprise; after all, "slam-dunk" George got the Medal of Freedom.

If you're as stupid as, or dumber than, George W. bUsh, you will be rewarded by the bush regime.



But God help the 65% who aren't.

[HuffleClaw]

12. that 'mediocre' rating was likely meant to provide an excuse to sack him

but of course the only thing they were 'rating' was the person's willingness to put party loyalty ahead of their job description.

[Toots]

14. Think of the ego it takes to rank someone like Fitzgerald anything other than good

They must have an extremely high opinion of themselves.

[Imagevision]

15. And to think Ashcroft chose Fitz to go after Scooter baby (ulyimately) he didn't want to

investigate Rove who he knew was involved in plamegate so he recused himself and enter Fitzgerald!! that is actually humorous.