The papers take a look at John Durham, the prosecutor Attorney General Michael Mukasey tapped to investigate whether anyone broke any laws by keeping secret and then destroying the CIA’s torture tapes, and find that even if he doesn’t have the same independence as Patrick Fitzgerald, he’s made from the same stuff.
From The Los Angeles Times:
“Think of him as the second coming of Patrick Fitzgerald,” said Jeffrey Meyer, a professor at Quinnipiac University law school in Hamden, Conn., who worked alongside Durham as a federal prosecutor for many years. “So far as I could tell, he does not have a political bone in his body. He is nothing but thorough and dogged in the way he pursues cases.”
From The Washington Post:
Four friends said they could not recall him losing a case in more than 30 years as a prosecutor, almost all of it spent fighting organized crime and gang violence in Connecticut….“He’s Fitzgerald with a sense of humor,” said Hugh O’Keefe, a Connecticut criminal defense lawyer who has known Durham for 20 years.