Time Mag. (Nov 7 issue on-line) For Fitz Fans

[Alamom]

(I hope this isn't a dupe...I searched and didn't see it posted. Great Article.)

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1124236-1,00.html

From the Magazine | Nation
Mr. Fitzgerald Goes To Washington
Posted Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005

Patrick Fitzgerald, 44, came to Washington not as a politician but as a prosecutor, the archetypical kind. When he announced his first indictment in the byzantine two-year-old CIA- leak investigation on Friday, he spoke for an hour, almost entirely without notes. It was easy to understand why juries like him. He sounded reasonable, and his plain respect for the law wasn't marred by sanctimony. As if making an opening statement at trial, he laid out the facts clearly and carefully—and then gracefully elevated the rhetoric. "When a Vice President's chief of staff is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice," he said, "it does show the world that this is a country that takes its law seriously, that all citizens are bound by the law." He used the word rules 13 times.
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But his record speaks for him. Fitzgerald has a long history of doing exactly as he did in this case. He works harder than God; he can be creative (sometimes controversially so) in his application of the law; and he does not tolerate being lied to. "He comes off as sincere because he is," says New York attorney Joshua Dratel, who defended a man prosecuted by Fitzgerald in a 2001 terrorism case. "He very much believes in what he is doing."
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After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Fitzgerald used a Civil War-era sedition statute to win the conviction of blind Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. When the jury sentenced Abdel-Rahman to life, Fitzgerald still wasn't satisfied. He became the first prosecutor to use a new antiterrorism law to get Abdel-Rahman imprisoned in isolation. (Later, Abdel-Rahman and his attorney would be caught on tape discussing how "evil" Fitzgerald was. "He's like a crusader," said lawyer Lynne Stewart.)
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Part of the reason Fitzgerald is credible is that he rarely gets emotional in public. "Wrath does not drive him," says Dean Polales, a Chicago attorney who worked under him for three years. There is one thing, though, that seems to pique Fitzgerald more than anything else. "He does hate being lied to," says Pasquale D'Amuro, former head of the FBI's New York field office. "He thinks that's a very serious crime." As a result of his terrorism prosecutions, Fitzgerald has cultivated a deep appreciation for state secrets and a good working relationship with the CIA. "He fully understands the apparatus of national security," says Josh Berman, a lawyer who worked with him in the Southern District. In essence, to dissemble before a grand jury—in an investigation that Fitzgerald has poured his life into—is to make a mockery of everything he believes in.

[rosesaylavee]

1. Wasn't it the HULK who said it best?

HULK: Don't make me mad. You won't like me when I'm mad.

"There is one thing, though, that seems to pique Fitzgerald more than anything else. "He does hate being lied to," says Pasquale D'Amuro, former head of the FBI's New York field office. "He thinks that's a very serious crime."

Thanks for the post - I am going out to buy that issue of TIME because I think we are watching history unfold here!

:woohoo:

[Alamom]

3. You're welcome.....I agree. n/t

[H2O Man]

2. I look foreward

to buying both Time and Newsweek for their stories on the Plame scandal. I do not usually buy either one, but there are weeks when it is worth the price.

[Nay]

4. If he hates to be lied to, then he REALLY must hate the Bush bunch.

Go, Fitz!

[vickie]

5. Oh my God. I love him even more after reading this.