Ex-senator doubts tale of Rove role (Peter Fitzgerald)

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Ex-senator doubts tale of Rove role
'Karl's far too smart' to try to remove U.S. attorney

April 24, 2008Recommend

BY MARK BROWN Sun-Times Columnist
As everybody knows, Peter Fitzgerald is the guy who had the foresight to pick a then-unfamiliar New York prosecutor named Patrick Fitzgerald for the job of U.S. attorney in Chicago.

Less well known is that Peter Fitzgerald also is the guy who had the foresight several years earlier to pick a then-unfamiliar Texas political consultant named Karl Rove as a key strategist in his upset win over U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun.

Who better then to assess Wednesday's news that a newly cooperative prosecution witness is prepared to testify that Democratic insider Tony Rezko had informed him that a top Illinois Republican friend was working through then-White House political director Rove to have Patrick Fitzgerald removed?

"Everybody's calling me," Fitzgerald said when I reached him at the offices of the new bank he has opened in McLean, Va., the Washington suburb where the former senator chose to remain after opting out of a re-election bid in 2004.

Not that he minds the calls. Peter Fitzgerald always is abreast of Illinois news, particularly when it pertains to his favorite subject: cleaning up our corrupt government.

more:http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/912860,CST-NWS-brown24.article


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No one should be shocked that Fitzgerald was targeted
John Kass

April 24, 2008

Some of you may be shocked with Wednesday's news out of the Tony Rezko corruption trial that frightened boss hog Illinois Republicans reportedly reached out to Bush White House political guru Karl Rove, asking Rove to rid them of troublesome federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

That is, if you get your news elsewhere, you'd be shocked.

But if you're a loyal reader of this column, you knew about the Illinois Combine-Rove connection years ago, and their seething antipathy toward Fitzgerald.

You readers knew all about the Combine, and that Republican bosses Big Bob Kjellander (pronounced $hell-and-der) and Big Bill Cellini did not appreciate the feds poking around, especially in the Democratic administration of Gov. Rod "The Unreformer" Blagojevich.

Neither Cellini nor Kjellander have been charged with a federal crime—yet.

In the meantime, Cellini has been named as "Co-schemer A" and Kjellander as "Individual K" in Rezko court documents. These Springfield Republicans made millions with the Chicago machine Democratic governor.

more:http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-24-apr24,0,2095158,print.column

[Demeter]

1. Rove Ain't That Smart--and He's Super Arrogant

It's more than possible that Rove did try. The question is, why didn't he succeed?