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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asking charge decide facts motive motives whether
When you decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime, you want to know as many facts as possible. You want to know what their motive is. ... You want to know their intent. ... If you are asking me what his motives were, I can't tell you.
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whether I thought Mr. Libby had tried to shape my testimony.
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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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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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It would be viewed as cooperation with the investigation.
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We have everything you can find at a Strip casino but we have $5 tables. That's who we are -- that's our brand. It's affordable luxury.
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was at the beginning of the chain of phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And then he lied about it afterwards.
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There's no allegation in the indictment in Chicago that anyone adopted children. The indictment doesn't speak to that, and I'll just look to my left to make sure of that. There's no such allegation about someone being adopted.
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I was not surprised the appellate court overturned one small part of the dismissal. Her case survived another day, that doesn't give it more merit, in our view.
comment continuing people
We never comment on people not charged. Don't read anything into that. It's a continuing investigation.
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We need to know the truth. Anyone who would go into a grand jury and lie, obstruct and impede the investigation has committed a serious crime.
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If only it were true. It is not true, according to the indictment,
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I have determined that American lives can be saved by ending the ongoing stonewalling by these two suspects, who have clearly orchestrated a campaign that endangers U.S. intelligence agents' lives. The Weekly Standard has opened my eyes to the fact that my being previously unprepared to torture is deeply immoral, given the American lives that I believe can be saved by the urgently needed information Cheney and Rove possess.
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People who believe fervently in the war effort, people who oppose it, people who have mixed feelings about it, should not look to this indictment for any resolution of how they feel or any vindication of how they feel.