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Argument: Argument thesis  Bush administration staff improperly involved in U.S. Attorney firings
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Parent Node: Node supports parent assertion  Loyalty to Bush as evaluation criteria
Node Text: Ranked Patrick Fitzgerald as a "middling prosecutor"

"Mary Jo White, who supervised Fitzgerald when she served as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan and who has criticized the firings, said ranking Fitzgerald as a middling prosecutor “lacks total credibility across the board.”

“He is probably the best prosecutor in the nation, certainly one of them,” said White, who worked in the Clinton and Bush administrations. “It casts total doubt on the whole process. It’s kind of the icing on the cake.”

Fitzgerald has been widely recognized for his pursuit of criminal cases against al-Qaeda’s terrorist network before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and he drew up the official U.S. indictment against Osama bin Laden. He was named as special counsel in the CIA leak case in December 2003 by then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who had recused himself."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Node Created: coolgeek — 2007-04-10 05:28:45

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