In a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in 2005, Plamegate special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald — who is also the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois — was ranked among prosecutors who had “not distinguished themselves.”
As the Washington Post reports this morning, that ranking put Fitzgerald somewhere in between “strong U.S. Attorneys … who exhibited loyalty” to the Bush administration and “weak U.S. Attorneys who … chafed against administration initiatives, etc.”
