U.S. Attorney Investigating Office of Special Counsel

There was an interesting story yesterday by National Public Radio's Ari Shapiro, who has been hot on the reporting trail of the investigation and criminal inquiry into Office of Special Counsel Scott Bloch. Jim Mitzelfeld, the U.S. attorney leading the case for the Justice Department, won the Pulitzer Prize while at the Detroit News in 1994, and went on to law school and then to the Justice Department. Mitzelfeld's colleague with whom he shared the Pulitzer said that Mitzelfeld described his new position this way: "Being a prosecutor is a lot like being a reporter, except you have subpoena power."

-- Beth Daley