Fitzgerald threatens to sue publisher over book (Triple Cross re jihadist mole in FBI)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 6-8-09 | Mike Robinson

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The top federal prosecutor in Chicago is threatening to sue publisher HarperCollins, calling a book about the war on terrorism that focuses in part on cases he was involved in "a deliberate lie masquerading as the truth."

If HarperCollins publishes the new edition of "Triple Cross" by Peter Lance this month "and it defames me or casts me in a false light, HarperCollins will be sued," Patrick Fitzgerald said in a letter to the New York-based company.

The book focuses on, among other things, major terrorism cases that Fitzgerald prosecuted when he was an assistant U.S. attorney in New York in the 1990s.

Its content goes beyond normal criticism, which "goes with the territory" for public figures, Fitzgerald told The Associated Press on Monday.

"This is different," he said. "The book lied about the facts and alleged that I deliberately misled the courts and the public in ways that in part caused the deaths in the 1998 embassy bombing attacks and in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."

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Over the last 20 months Fitzgerald has tried to "kill" "Triple Cross" in its hardcover and paperback editions with "baseless" allegations, Lance said.

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Currently on Amazon ..

Triple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI--and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him (Hardcover)

Reviews

Fitzie's definitely in a snit. New release due June 16. Tick, tick, tick ......

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Excerpt: from one of the reviews

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The best part of Triple Cross is the way Lance weaves together the different strands of the 9/11 story and enhances them with his own original reporting on each. For example, the book quotes from numerous interviews Lance conducted with Tony Shaffer, Curt Weldon, and other members of the Able Danger team. While not a full history of Able Danger, it has by far the most complete version in any book published to date.

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I’ll always be suspicious of what went on with Able Danger.

[frankjr]

Fitz is a hack. He is worried about the truth coming out.

[JerseyJohn61]

Don't worry Pat. Chuck Shummer will help you out with
a good legal team like he did with Plame and Wilson.

What goes around...

JJ61

[cookcounty]

Is this the Fitz that went in front of national TV and knowingly, falsely, accused Scooter Libby of committing a crime and then refused to indict him for it?

I’ll believe Lance before I would believe the dishonorable and dishonest Fitz.

[Liberty Valance]

I’ll always be suspicious of what went on with Able Danger.

Me too. I remember when it was a hot topic on FR. Then all of the sudden *zip* Weldon was being threatened and everybody dove for the nearest foxhole. This book might answer a few questions ... Merry Fitzmas!

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Same hack.

[NotSoModerate]

Well somebody screwed up in the 90’s.

[FreepShop1]

Let him sue! That will double their sales and he will get nothing.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Power corrupts. Fitzgerald is an example. His plans for a future in politics are suddenly threatened by a book. Let the chips fall where they may.

Victoria Toensing picked Fitzgerald apart in the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601705.html

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She sure did ... I wish we’d see her
commenting on this admin. She’s never
on Fox anymore.

[Big_Monkey]

I have no idea if this book is worth the paper it's written on, and frankly I don't care. Nor do I really care for Fitzgerald, so if he's po'd, that somehow pleases me.

But, I think it is interesting from the standpoint of having a sitting US Attorney publicly threaten to sue a private company, civilly. I don't know if this isn't some kind of precedent.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

I’ll check this out later.

Thanks.

[Never on my watch]

Hey Patrick, I’ll bet you Scooter Libby wishes that it was only a book that disparaged him. At least your freedom, family and career wasn’t taken from you.

[drpix]

"His plans for a future in politics are suddenly threatened by a book."

And after he - like Charlie Crist - got married last year, for the 1st time (to a women) to satisfy the voting public. What a sham!

[Tribune7]

I’ll always be suspicious of what went on with Able Danger.

The Justice Department went out of its way to sabotage Weldon.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Fitzgerald ruined his reputation in the Plame Affaire. He know from the get-go that Richard Armitage was the source for the leak, but he put Scooter Libby through hell with his prosecution. Bush was a putz for not clearing Libby. And Libby wasn't the only one Fitzgerald put through hell.

What comes around, goes around.

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“Patrick Fitzgerald accuses me of making charges in the book that I never made,” Lance said. “At the same time, he continually fails to respond to the substantive allegations documented in 604 pages, 1,425 end notes and 32 pages of documentary appendices.”

“Out of an abundance of caution and considering that the threat was coming from, perhaps the most powerful federal prosecutor in the country, we revetted the entire book,” Lance said.”

Sounds like a ‘Must Read’! Thanks for the ping.

Where is Fitz on the Blago indictment? Is he still negotiating his pay-off from Obama and Rahm?

[rodguy911]

Col. Shaffer got a bad deal! There is no question about it.!

[Brad from Tennessee]

[And after he - like Charlie Crist - got married last year. . .]

Some of my family lives in Florida. My mother and sister—both Republicans—refer to Crist as the “Silver Fag.”