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Mr. Durham, recall, is the special prosecutor appointed in 2008 by
then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate allegations that
the CIA had illegally destroyed videotapes of CIA detainee
interrogations. The prosecutor's mandate was expanded in 2009 by
current Attorney General Eric Holder to look into allegations that CIA
officers and contractors had abused and, in some cases, tortured and
killed, as many as 101 detainees thought to have been in U.S. custody.
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is the story about Eric Holder trying to game a special prosecutor, who
then proceeded to rear-end him But this is the part I LOVED
about
this
article. A drive-by shooting of Patrick Fitzgerald.
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When Mr. Durham was first appointed, the Los Angeles
Times called him the "second coming of Patrick Fitzgerald," reflecting
a wish that the Connecticut prosecutor's investigation would do as much
political damage to the Bush administration as the witch-hunting
Chicago prosecutor's had. Encomia for Mr. Durham's competence and
rectitude poured in from all quarters; the liberal New Republic called
him "an effective mafia-busting prosecutor" who had "earned a
nonpartisan, camera-shy, 'white-knight' reputation."
Mr. Durham, it turned out, was all those things, which
is another way of saying he's the exact opposite of the ambitious,
media-obsessed and unscrupulous Mr. Fitzgerald—the man who convicted
Scooter Libby of not being the man who leaked Valerie
Plame's CIA identity to the media.
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