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Date: March 16, 2007 4:11:01 PM PDT
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Subject: Coming in Under the Radar
PATRICK FITZGERALD APPOINTED U.S. ATTORNEY
[IN SPITE OF] ROVE PRESSURE
Former Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) revealed yesterday that Karl
Rove put pressure on him in 2001 to choose a U.S. Attorney who
would be lenient in probing [Republican] corruption -- but
Fitzgerald ended up choosing Patrick Fitzgerald, who was later
named Special Prosecutor in the CIA leak case.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/14/rove-fitzgerald/
From the Tribune:
... [Rove told Sen. Fitzgerald] in the spring of 2001 that he
should limit his choice for U.S. attorney in Chicago to someone
from Illinois.
According to Fitzgerald, who was determined to bring in a
prosecutor from outside the state, Rove “just said we don’t want
you going outside the state. We don’t want to be moving U.S.
attorneys around.”
Fitzgerald said he believes Rove was trying to influence the
selection in reaction to pressure from Rep. Dennis Hastert, then
speaker of the House, and allies of then-Gov. George Ryan, who knew
Fitzgerald was seeking someone ["untainted"] from outside Illinois
to attack political corruption.
Fitzgerald said he announced his choice, Patrick Fitzgerald, a New
Yorker, on May 13, a Mother’s Day Sunday, in order to pre-empt any
opposition.
According to Peter Fitzgerald, a year or so later, Karl Rove “said
to me, 'That Fitzgerald appointment got great headlines for you,
but it ticked off the base.'” Fitzgerald said he believes the
“base” was Illinois Republican insiders “upset at the prosecutor’s
assault on corruption.”
Little did Rove know that Fitzgerald would be ticking him --and the
White House-- off two years later.
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