Meet the Chicago Bulls Team

(From left to right: Randall Samborn, the government team's spokesperson; Kathleen Kedian and Patrick Fitzgerald.)-------------->

(Debra Bonamici — who is far cuter in person than this photograph would make you think, but it is the only picture that I could find of her for you guys after several hours of searching.)

Then there's Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor from Chicago who has led these and a handful of other attorneys in a massive investigation to determine who in the White House leaked the name of a covert Central Intelligence Agency operative to the media….

Peter Zeidenberg, a Justice Department prosecutor with the public integrity section, brings to Fitzgerald's team experience in high-profile cases involving public officials. Despite a recent failure to convict David Rosen — the former campaign finance director for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who is accused of lying to the Federal Election Commission — his résumé includes a number of wins in other public corruption cases.
Locally, he's widely known as the prosecutor who, in the longest criminal trial in D.C. history, brought down the infamous K Street Crew, a gang of marijuana dealers known for killing witnesses.

Also from Washington is Kathleen Kedian, a relative newcomer to the counterespionage section. Her role in the case involves handling much of the grunt work, like sorting through stacks of documents, says the former DOJ official….

When reporters Miller and Cooper appealed a judge's ruling ordering them to testify earlier this year, Fitzgerald called on two key Chicago attorneys to litigate the matter: James Fleissner, now a professor at Mercer University Law School in Georgia, and Debra Bonamici, an appellate specialist in the Chicago U.S. Attorney's Office….

Bonamici made a name for herself in Chicago after convicting members of an exotic animal ring, in which nearly two dozen tigers and leopards were killed for their skins.

These are the attorneys that I have seen in court, at the government's table — but there are a whole host of other attorneys who worked on the investigative team, who worked before the federal grand jury and hand-in-hand with the FBI agents investigating the case, who also deserve both a mention and some thanks: John Dion, Ron Roos, Bruce Swartz, Gary Shapiro, David Glockner, and James Fleissner, among many, many others — those are just the names mentioned in the article. (Not to mention "Gene," whose last name I never did catch, who wrangled all of the government witnesses at the courthouse with a smooth and effective demeanor, and who apparently knew Fitzgerald from "the old days.") Along with those are two big names that deserve much thanks: Jack Eckenrode, retired from the FBI but the man who led the investigation through most of the hard slogging, and James Comey, who pushed the investigation forward.

Thanks Fitz, the Z-man, Debbie Deb, K for Kathleen and the rest of Team Fitz and investigative team!