In March 2005, a month after Alberto Gonzales became U.S. attorney general, Justice Department staffers sent to the White House a chart ranking all 93 U.S. attorneys in terms of their allegiance to President George W. Bush and his administration.

On that chart, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney for Northern Illinois, was ranked somewhere in the middle, below those federal prosecutors who exhibited loyalty to the administration but above the "weak U.S. attorneys who . . . ch ...

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