Tu sai che ti amo, bella. :)

What a kind thing to say, which I missed on first scan…Thank you.

In 1993, Patrick Fitzgerald assisted in the prosecution of Mafia figure John Gotti, the boss of the Gambino crime family.

In 1994, Fitzgerald became the prosecutor in the case against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 others charged in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

In 1996, Fitzgerald became the National Security Coordinator for the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. There, he served on a team of prosecutors investigating Osama bin Laden.
He also served as chief counsel in prosecutions related to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

On October 24, 2001, Fitzgerald was confirmed as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Soon after, Fitzgerald began an investigation of political appointees of Illinois Governor George Ryan (Republican), who were suspected of accepting bribes to give licenses to unqualified truck drivers. Fitzgerald soon expanded this investigation, uncovering a network of political bribery and gift-giving, and leading to more than 60 indictments. Ryan, who did not seek re-election in 2002, was indicted in December 2003. At the conclusion of the trial, in April 2006, Ryan was found guilty on all eighteen counts against him. Ryan’s co-defendant, Chicago businessman Larry Warner, 67, was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, fraud, attempted extortion, and money laundering.
On July 18, 2005, Fitzgerald’s office indicted a number of top aides to Democrat Richard M. Daley, the mayor of Chicago, on charges of mail fraud, alleging numerous instances of corruption in hiring practices at City Hall.
Fitzgerald is also investigating the administration of current Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. An investigation announced on December 30 2005 will review contracts between the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority and vendors who signed leases to occupy the recently remodeled Illinois Tollway oases. Fitzgerald’s office is investigating possible conflicts of interest between these vendors and one of Blagojevich’s top fundraisers, Antoin Rezko.

In March 2006, former City Clerk James Laski pled guilty to pocketing nearly $50,000 in bribes for steering city business to two trucking companies. Thus far Laski is the highest-ranking City official and Daley administration employee brought down by Fitzgerald’s office.

This beside Conrad Black, Plame (Libby indictment), and the new Blagojevich patronage investigation.

We Americans might be the only people in the world who won’t see any moral equivalence between a suicide bomber and a Marine company killing 24 innocent civilians to avenge a dead comrade–to say nothing of leveling entire cities. “They started it” or “They’re evil and we’re not” doesn’t mean shit when you’re one of the dead ones, and when you’re looking down the barrel of an M-16 “terrorism” might just as well be wearing the uniform of a liberator. But at least our Marines will get their day in court.

in spite of the unreliability of the information based on “adoption rates” of Alexa [ which I recommend NOT adopting if you value privacy ], i think the results for “firedoglake.com”, while not perhaps usable to negotiate ad rates, are sufficient to indicate that the results [ relative to all other blog and news sites I tested ] do in fact indicate that “firedoglake.com” is basically “kicking ass”.

– tim

“SWIFT: It’s not whether they deserve it or not. It’s how we conduct ourselves. It has to do where if we say that our opponent can cause us not to follow the rules anymore, then we’ve lost who we are. We’re the good guys. We’re the guys who follow the rule and the people we fight are the bad guys and we show that every day when we follow the rules, regardless of what they do. It’s what sets us apart. It’s what makes us great and in my mind, it’s what makes us undefeatable, ultimately.”

I want to hear more of this.