If something happens to Fitzgerald, they're going to blame Mayor Daley.

[barbaraann]

Prosecutor Takes on the Chicago Mayor
By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer Sat Aug 6, 3:51 PM ET

CHICAGO - He sent members of New York's Gambino crime family to the federal pen and he jailed terrorists who planned to strike America with a wave of bombings. Now Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the federal prosecutor who heads Washington's CIA leak investigation, is also taking on City Hall.

The 45-year-old New Yorker who is chief federal prosecutor in Chicago is digging deep into Mayor Richard M. Daley's political empire. And former Illinois Gov. George Ryan is due to go to trial on federal corruption charges Sept. 15.
...
So intense has been his probe of payoffs and fraud at City Hall that rumors are flying about a possible effort by politicians to get Fitzgerald out of town. He brushes aside all such questions.

"I'm just going to do my job until the telephone rings and somebody tells me not to," he told reporters with a poker face last week.
...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tough_prosecutor


Be sure to read the last four cryptic paragraphs. Nowhere does this article say that Fitzgerald's investigation could bring down the Bush Administration and the Republican Party.

[emulatorloo]

1. "I'm just going to do my job until the telephone rings and somebody tells

me not to."

I guess we better get prepared. . . .

[barbaraann]

2. Isn 't that a strange thing to say?

n/t

[emulatorloo]

3. Newsweek story -- new boss for fitz

I have 100% faith in Fitz honesty and integrity. . .but this is a little nervous making:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853002/site/newsweek/

<snip>

Aug. 15, 2005 issue - The departure this week of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who has accepted the post of general counsel at Lockheed Martin, leaves a question mark in the probe into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Comey was the only official overseeing special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's leak investigation. With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recused, department officials say they are still trying to resolve whom Fitzgerald will now report to. Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum is "likely" to be named as acting deputy A.G., a DOJ official who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter tells NEWSWEEK. But McCallum may be seen as having his own conflicts: he is an old friend of President Bush's and a member of his Skull and Bones class at Yale.

One question: how much authority Comey's successor will have over Fitzgerald. When Comey appointed Fitzgerald in 2003, the deputy granted him extraordinary powers to act however he saw fit—but noted he still had the right to revoke Fitzgerald's authority. The questions are pertinent because law-yers close to the case believe the probe is in its final stages.

<snip>

[emulatorloo]

4. More scary news -- Bush removes prosecutor in Guam case

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4279471