A short note on Patrick Fitzgerald, the United States Attorney from Chicago running the Plame investigation.
I’m told this isn’t the first time he’s done a leak investigation of the Bush White House.
This earlier investigation, which was in 2002, grew out of Fitzgerald’s investigation of a series of Muslim charities accused of having ties to terrorism — the Holy Land Foundation, the Global Relief Foundation, and the Benevolence International Foundation.
My point isn’t that the White House did something else wrong. In fact, I’m told that in this case the White House really hadn’t done anything improper at all.
But Fitzgerald was pissed and apparently went after them very aggressively — and this for a case in which, I’m told, there really wasn’t much to go after.
This might be something to keep in mind when figuring how the Plame investigation might play out.
