Prosecutor in CIA leak case known for his intellect, relentlessness

[ailsagirl]

Kansas City Star
Posted on Tue, Oct. 25, 2005
By Shannon McCaffrey
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - While he was an undergraduate at Amherst College, Patrick Fitzgerald spent his summers as a doorman at luxury apartment buildings on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

He wasn't always treated well by the elite who lived there, and it made an impression on the future prosecutor. Fitzgerald isn't in awe of the rich and the powerful, friends say.

That trait is coming in handy. Fitzgerald's probe into who outed a CIA officer has led him inside the White House. Now, almost two years after he was tapped to lead the investigation, he appears poised to bring indictments in coming days, perhaps against some of the most influential players in Washington.

The relentlessness with which he's pursued the sensitive case comes as no surprise to friends and adversaries. They say it's vintage Fitzgerald.




MORE:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/12995238.htm