Patrick Fitzgerald
Patrick Fitzgerald
Patrick J. Fitzgeraldis a lawyer in Chicago, Illinois. He joined, as partner, the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom as of October 29, 2012...
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Today's charges involve the most disturbing of allegations. The victimization of children in the depraved manner described can never be tolerated. The sort of conduct alleged in today's charges will continue to draw the attention and energies of federal, state and local law enforcement.
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We'll have more to say after the special counsel has his press availability,
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It would be viewed as cooperation with the investigation.
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determine the facts and then outline those facts for the American people.
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I just got a great feeling when I went over there. I met the players, and I fit right in. They didn't treat me any differently because I was a recruit. The staff was very welcoming, and I like all the coaches.
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I'll be blunt. That talking point won't fly.
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A CIA officer's name was blown and there was a leak and we needed to figure out how that happened, who did it, why, whether a crime was committed, whether we could prove it, whether we should prove it. Given national security was at stake, it was especially important that we find out accurate facts.
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A CIA employee assigned to provide daily intelligence briefs to the Vice President and Libby has handwritten notes indicating that Libby referred to 'Joe Wilson' and 'Valerie Wilson' by those names in conversation with the briefer on June 14, 2003.
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The need to get to the bottom of what happened -- and whether national security was compromised by inadvertence, by recklessness, by maliciousness -- is extremely important, ... Anyone who would go into a grand jury and lie, obstruct and impede the investigation has committed a serious crime.
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Citizens of state deserve honest government from their secretary of state and their governor and expect no less.
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As a prosecutor, you have two roles: Show judgment as to what to go after and how to go after it. But also, once you do that, to be zealous. And if you're not zealous, you shouldn't have the job. Now sometimes 'zealous' becomes a code word for overzealous and I don't want to be overzealous. I hope I'm not,
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It is our understanding that Mr. Libby testified that he was authorized to disclose information about the NIE to the press by his superiors.
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they could not have picked a worse person.
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Officers and directors of publicly traded companies who steer shareholders' money into their pockets should not lie to the board of directors to get permission to do so.