What do we know about Fitzgerald?

[Quixote1818]

Do you think we can count on him to kick some ass on this? What's his reputation like?

[barb162]

1. He was considered clean, incorruptible, at least what I read about

him

[Quixote1818]

3. How about tenacious?

nt

[barb162]

8. yes, tenacious too. But I wonder why the hell this is all taking so

long and why is Robert Novak being left alone. Something doesn't seem right to me.

[Goldmund]

2. Supposedly, pristine

And then there's that black mark on his record: THE BUSHIES APPOINTED HIM TO INVESTIGATE THEM.

I try not to think about that contradiction. When I do, my face gets acne.

[pacalo]

12. Remember, Nixon's staff appointed his special prosecutor, too.

[kanrok]

4. He's got a sterling rep. in Chicago

He goes after both sides of the fence. Repubs and dems. Universally hated by the pols, which, in my mind, is a good thing. Indicted former Governor Ryan, and a bunch of is henchmen. Now indicting a ton of connected dems. Quality prosecutor. Inside info reveals he is the real deal. Incorruptible and a bulldog.

[kestrel91316]

5. Someone compared him to Elliot Ness.

[xray s]

6. He is supposed to be tough and independent

He was appointed by Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald in Illinois knowing he would be tough against corruption, regardless of political party, and he has delivered. His investigation of the drivers license for bribe scandal has decimated the Republican party in the state.

The question is, with the DoJ let him finish the job with Rove?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. My opinion will be forged in the coming weeks. nt

[brettdale]

9. So How will it go down in terms of a time line?

So How will it go down in terms of a time line?

Once Fitzgerald has finished with his investigation, does he announced it to the Press?

If so, is their a further delay in handing out indictments?

Is it weeks after the investigation has finished?

Or does it all happen at once? do we wake up to read, that Fitzgerald has finished his investigation and has indicted Rove?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

13. We wake up and indictments are handed down or

the case is closed, lacking sufficient evidence. Cooper testifies on Wednesday. I suspect that that's the end of the road. Best guess: We'll know which way the wind blows by the 20th. Think Big Splash. Alternatively, think Fade Away.

Have I covered my prognosticating ass enough?

[seabeyond]

10. kinda like the 9/11 commission. what a disappointment n/t

[pacalo]

11. What I'm curious about is...

how Fitzgerald got hired by this administration. He's a dream.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55560-2005Feb1.html

(snip)

"I thought, 'He is the original Untouchable,'" <Sen., no relation> Peter Fitzgerald says. "You could just see it in his eyes that he was a straight shooter. There were no levers that anyone had over him. He had no desire to become a partner in a private law firm. He has no interest in electoral politics. He wanted to be a prosecutor."

(snip)

Seeing Fitzgerald in action, says Los Angeles lawyer Anthony Bouza, a college classmate, is "like watching a sophisticated machine." Colleagues speak in head-shaking tones of Fitzgerald's skills in taking a case to trial. A Phi Beta Kappa math and economics student at Amherst before earning a Harvard law degree in 1985, he has a gift for solving puzzles and simplifying complexity for a jury.

(snip)

Fitzgerald's parents, born on opposite sides of Ireland's County Clare, met in the United States. They raised their son in Flatbush and guided him to a scholarship at a Jesuit high school. He worked as a school janitor in Brooklyn to make money for college and spent summers opening doors at an upscale co-op building on East 72nd Street in Manhattan. (His father worked at a building on East 75th, just off Madison Avenue.) It is part of Fitzgerald lore that he bit his tongue when rich apartment dwellers talked down to him as "just the doorman."

After law school, he spent three years in private practice before fleeing to the prosecution side. In the New York days, his married friends chided him about his workaholic, overachieving, hopelessly bachelor life. One time, visiting the small Brooklyn studio where Fitzgerald lived, a lawman noticed papers piled on the gas stove. Don't worry about the fire hazard, Fitzgerald told him -- "I've never turned it on."

[Quixote1818]

14. he has a gift for solving puzzles

he has a gift for solving puzzles and simplifying complexity for a jury.


Thanks for that article! He sounds like just what we need!

[pacalo]

15. YW, Donny. ;)