FIRING FITZGERALD Under questioning by Senator Dick Durbin, Kyle Sampson just acknowledged that he brought up the possibility of adding Patrick Fitzgerald to the list of United States Attorneys to be fired with Harriet Miers and someone else. I missed the exact timing of the event (though it was while the CIA leak investigation was ongoing) and who the other person was. Sampson claimed that his interlocutors said absolutely nothing in response, but looked at him funny -- which is frankly quite believable, it is such a breathtakingly stupid idea. Obviously, if the White House wanted to get rid of Patrick Fitzgerald, they'd have to do something like get rid of all the U.S. attorneys in one fell swoop, so that Fitzgerald was not targeted.
--Jeff Lomonaco
