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Fitzy. Here's a lengthy July 2002 profile of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald that shows his lack of fear in the face of entrenched Republican power, or any power, for that matter.

One of the best bits of Fitzgerald's Chicago tenure suggests that manwhore Jeff Gannon might even have the potential to make a guest appearance in the Plame investigation:

Patrick Fitzgerald may have arrived in [Chicago] as the new U.S. attorney in August 2001, but he didn’t really arrive until April 2, 2002, when he stood before the television cameras and announced the stunning news: Gov. George Ryan’s three-decades-old campaign committee was being charged as a “criminal enterprise” whose thirst for money had led to the ever-widening driver’s-licenses-for-bribes scandal.

In a meaty 80-page indictment, Fitzgerald alleged “a pervasive pattern of fraud and corruption,” with schemes that stretched from secretly paying off state employees for campaign work to arranging prostitutes in Costa Rica for Scott Fawell, Ryan’s chief of staff when he was secretary of state.

The link to Jeff Gannon could be more than blogospherical wishful thinking because Jeff Gannon (James Guckert to his mom) was among the two dozen journalists (the term is loosely applied here) appearing in the subpoenaed White House records.

It's Eliot Ness redux. Chicago Magazine link via Gaper's Block (8/2/05).

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