"the White House has met its match in ... Fitzgerald"

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Last Updated: Saturday, 29 October 2005, 13:07 GMT 14:07 UK

Scandal at the White House

By Justin Webb
BBC Washington correspondent

Justin Webb recalls his impressions of Karl Rove and 'Scooter' Libby, and says the White House has met its match in Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4388152.stm

CIA people have been clashing behind the scenes with elected officials here for decades - in the Cold War the issue was whether the Soviet threat was being exaggerated or not, and goodness who's that arguing behind the scenes in the Reagan team that the CIA was going soft - and making enemies in the agency in the process?

A man with three first names - not an easy person to forget - I Lewis Scooter Libby. He was younger then but he had just as many names and he was just as sure that that America's enemies should be tackled head-on - that detente with dictators, with terrorists, with any enemy, was a bad idea. There are those who will wonder whether Mr Libby is being punished now for his previous life.

The whole tale reads like, well, like a spy novel, and now it's been bought by Hollywood with a larger-than-life special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, a pugilist with a Harvard law degree. Now in the past White Houses attacked by special prosecutors have fought back in personal terms.

But I have a warning. I watched Mr Fitzgerald's hour-long press conference on Friday with two female colleagues. Both declared at the end of it that they wanted to marry him. In an image-dominated nation, the White House has met its match.

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Mr. Webb is a fine judge of character.

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1. Fitz is a total NERD! Gawd love him!

Did you see his comments after the verdict? He was all over the place making his point. I thought it was hilarious!

Thankfully he's a nerd that believes in the rule of law and the constitution. Thanks Patrick Fitzgerald! You're my hero today.