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“You wouldn’t be appointing Pat Fitzgerald to this case to simply close it down,” says Eric Holder, deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration “The fact that a special counsel has been selected indicates, at least at this point, that this is a matter that has some legs.” Holder says anyone in the government “who did anything inappropriate in this case ought to be nervous” because Fitzgerald is a dogged investigator.
> Fitzgerald has never been afraid to go after the powerful (LAT)
> DOJ chiefs won’t say why Fitz was abruptly assigned to leak case (WP)
> Ashcroft had resisted demands to remove himself from case (NYT/r.r.)
> Novak tells his paper he has nothing to say about Fitz pick (Sun-Times)
> Was announcement made on Dec. 30 so it wouldn’t be noticed? (BG)
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