MSNBC: "Washington waits on Fitzgerald"

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Special counsel described as ‘tenacious’ and ‘apolitical’
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• The man running the CIA leak probe
Oct. 25: NBC's White House Correspondent Kelly O'Donnell has a look at the man who could soon become a political lightning rod — special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
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By Kelly O'Donnell
White House Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:21 p.m. ET Oct. 25, 2005

Kelly O'Donnell
White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON - One man knows the secrets of the CIA leak case — and Washington is riveted by what special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald might do.

"He is dogged and he is tenacious," says former independent counsel Robert Ray. "But he's also responsible."

Fitzgerald was born in Brooklyn to Irish immigrants. His father was a Manhattan doorman. Fitzgerald worked as a custodian and took other modest jobs to get through elite schools. He was a math and economics major at Amherst College then went to Harvard Law.

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