What's Fitzgerald's history?

[Seen the light]

I was arguing with a freeper friend of mine today and he said that Fitzgerald has given lots of money to moveon.org. While I knew that wasn't true, I wasn't 100% sure who appointed him to be the special prosecutor. Wasn't it the guy who's now the deputy attorney general or am I missing something?

[CTD]

1. I don't want to be rude

But a simple search here or even on Google will tell you more than you'd even want to know.

It's rude to ask people to spoon feed you information you are too lazy to look for on your own.

[Seen the light]

3. My apologies

Still not that great with the Internet. I guess I'll try harder on a google search, couldn't find what I was looking for earlier.

[Lubernaut]

10. "I don't want to be rude"

That's funny.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. Ask him to prove that statement

It's bullshit. But, tell him to put up or shut up.

He's dead wrong.

Google "Patrick Fitzgerald," and you'll find his complete biography, in various forms.

[tularetom]

4. Nah

I think your freeper friend is (surprise) confused. It was the judge in the Delay arraignment who supposedly gave money to moveon.org. Unless that has become the new all purpose rw smear tactic. Some of these asswipes ought to visit moveon.org. It's actually pretty tame. They could do a lot better than that if they want to crucify somebody.

[shockingelk]

5. James B. Comey

Who was/is Bush Justice Department Deputy Attorney General.

[Seen the light]

8. Thank you n/t

[Spazito]

6. ROFL, typical freeper ignorance, it is the judge in the Delay case

that donated to moveon.org NOT Fitzgerald. Man, they can't anything right. Re appointment, it was the acting Attorney General, appointed when Ashcroft had to recuse himself, belatedly, who appointed him, he has since resigned and is back in the private sector.

[emulatorloo]

7. Here's a good profile from 10/23 - washington post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102301028_pf.html

also try google. tell your freeper to stop lying.

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Inquiry as Exacting As Special Counsel Is
A Tough Investigation Is Also Praised as Nonpartisan
By Peter Slevin and Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, October 24, 2005; A03


CHICAGO, Oct. 23 -- Patrick J. Fitzgerald's final witness was behind bars, refusing to testify, and no one was budging. Hunting for room to maneuver, the special counsel talked with one side, then the other. He drafted a letter that nudged the witness and needled I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff.

Three days later, Libby put fingers to keyboard and told New York Times reporter Judith Miller that she was freed from her promise to protect his identity. He praised her mightily and urged her to "come back to work -- and life." Satisfied, she quit jail after 85 days, testified to Fitzgerald's grand jury and surrendered details she had vowed never to reveal.

Miller's testimony carried Fitzgerald one step closer to the climax of his investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's name, an inquiry that a federal judge termed "exhaustive" and President Bush called "dignified." In typical fashion, the Chicago prosecutor interceded personally, with a blend of toughness and flexibility, and pocketed what he needed.

Fitzgerald's most difficult and contentious choices -- whether to seek criminal charges -- remain to be announced, possibly this week. Yet in a case with huge political stakes for the White House, a portrait is emerging of a special counsel with no discernible political bent who prepared the ground with painstaking sleuthing and cold-eyed lawyering.

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[Catherine Vincent]

9. The Fitz has never contributed to any group or party.

And I don't think it's because he's stingy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. For biographies always try Wikipedia

It can be slow sometimes, but here is the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page