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A Tale of Two Prosecutors
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Even as Mr. Nifong was facing ethics hearings in North Carolina</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010243"> Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's project--the construction of a major case of obstruction of justice out of a perjury rap against Mr. Libby--had come to a satisfactory conclusion</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010243">For Mr. Fitzgerald, whose prosecutorial zeal and moral certitude are in no small way reminiscent of Mr. Nifong's, the victory was complete with those two final judgments: the severe sentence for Mr. Libby, and the judge's refusal, last week, to allow its postponement pending appeal.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010243">his failure to disclose that he had known all along the identity of the person who had leaked the Valerie Plame story. 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