Nora Dannehy, the career prosecutor from Connecticut appointed to investigate the U.S. attorney firings, is charged with building upon the work of the Justice Department’s watchdogs in an investigation where politics and law are hopelessly intertwined.

But the 47-year-old lawyer, who brought down her state’s governor in 2004, has spent the last 17 years ignoring politics, the media and anything else that distracts from her immediate goal — usually the conviction of a corrupt public official.

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