this is about the career prosecutor, Margolis. He's Fitzgeralds new supervisor, and it sounds like we got hope with this fighting dog... Yay!
Career prosecutor to supervise Plame probe - August 13, 2005
On his way out the door, Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who chose junkyard dog Patrick Fitzgerald to run the Plame scandal investigation, has chosen senior junkyard dog David Margolis to supervise Fitzgerald once Comey leaves.
This is truly bad news -- for the bad guys.
Margolis made his prosecutorial bones doing organized crime cases, eventually rising to Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, from which position he supervised the seventeen Organized Crime Strike Forces which more or less won the war on the Mafia. (That's when I got to know him.) Margolis has a stratospheric IQ, has been known to wear Willie Nelson t-shirts to work, is used to long investigations using somewhat edgy investigative techniques, and can't be intimidated by anybody.
So the risk that Bush would put in a Skull-and-Bones budddy to put a lid on Fitzgerald turns out to have been chimerical.
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