there goes that talking point

Dan Froomkin quotes Peter Slevin and Carol D. Leonnig of the Washington Post on the cost, to date, of the Fitzgerald investigation.

"In its first 15 months, the investigation cost $723,000, according to the Government Accountability Office."
Think about that number for a minute. It's astonishingly low by any standard.

Consider that over about the same period of time that Fitzgerald spent $723,000, independent counsel David M. Barrett spent more than $3 million.

Who the heck is Barrett? He was appointed more than ten years ago to investigate then-Housing Secretary Henry G. Cisneros. It's not clear what he's been doing lately, other than tidying up. He's spent more than $21 million in all.

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Whatever else Fitzgerald may or may not be, he's definitely a bargain.

Let's keep that in mind when the republican apologists' inevitably start spewing their swill about wasted money.