Reply #16: He's a career US Attorney.. [View All]

there are hundreds of 'assistant US attorneys' & 'US Attorney'. They are federal prosecutors and are thus 'appointed' by the Justice Department when hired, and when promoted to US Attorneys, who head up investigations for a region, they are 'appointed'by the President at the time since DOJ falls under his control. While I imagine that there is sometimes politizing that goes into the appointment of a full US attorney, the day in and day out work is not managed by politicos. I believe Fitzegerald started in the NY Southern District (mostly NYC) when Clinton was president. That doesn't mean that Clinton had anything to do with hiring him much less assigning him to any of his cases, such as the African embassy bombings. Leaving aside the Special Prosecutor gig, I don't think that his day to day work in Chicago is assigned to him by Republican operatives.