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Patrick Fitgerald

Posted on 07/16/2005 8:30:45 PM PDT by danny5555

Patrick J. Fitzgerald (born 1961) is the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. On December 31, 2003, he made national headlines by being appointed to continue the investigation into the Valerie Plame CIA leak, a case sometimes referred to by the media as "Leakgate".[1] Fitzgerald was named to this role after Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the case.[2]

Fitzgerald attended Amherst College and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1985. After practicing civil law, he became an Assistant United States Attorney in New York in 1988. He handled drug-trafficking cases and in 1993 helped prosecute John Gambino of the Gambino mafia family. In 1994, he became the prosecutor in the case against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 other individuals charged in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[3]

In 1996, Fitzgerald became the National Security Coordinator for the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. There, he served on a team of prosecutors investigating Osama bin Laden.[4] He served as chief counsel in prosecutions related to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa.[5]

Patrick Fitzgerald was nominated for his position as U.S. Attorney on September 19, 2001 on the recommendation of U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL), and confirmed on October 24, 2001. Peter Fitzgerald and Patrick Fitzgerald are not related.[6]


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KEYWORDS: cialeak; doj; fitzgerald; patrickfitgerald; plame; rove; wilson

1 posted on 07/16/2005 8:30:45 PM PDT by danny5555
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To: danny5555

Thanks for the information.


2 posted on 07/16/2005 8:35:54 PM PDT by hoosiermama (WIlson and Plame were both working UNDERtheCOVERS!)
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To: hoosiermama

Not a problem!


3 posted on 07/16/2005 8:43:43 PM PDT by danny5555
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To: danny5555
Thank you. I was hoping Fitzgerald was the type of guy who would be able to hold up under the attacks that will soon be coming from the Left.

I can see from what you've posted that he's dealt with nasty people before.

4 posted on 07/16/2005 9:18:51 PM PDT by syriacus (To WHICH entity does Joe Wilson pledge his allegiance?)
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To: syriacus

He has, he would be taking no notice of the media at all, or all the pathetic attacks that have been happening in the past week or so.


5 posted on 07/16/2005 9:22:31 PM PDT by danny5555
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To: Bahbah; DrDeb

FYI


6 posted on 07/16/2005 9:36:38 PM PDT by hoosiermama (WIlson and Plame were both working UNDERtheCOVERS!)
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To: danny5555

"He handled drug-trafficking cases and in 1993 helped prosecute John Gambino of the Gambino mafia family. In 1994, he became the prosecutor in the case against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 other individuals charged in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[3]"

Sounds like a tough Irishman to me. Go get 'em Pat!


7 posted on 07/17/2005 10:43:42 AM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: danny5555

Could minor Ambassador Joe Wilson himself have been the source in blowing his own Wife's cover?

It is distinctly possible, (though it may be unlikely that Joe Wilson himself directly was NY Times Judith Miller's source), since Joe Wilson himself evidently routinely bragged openly to strangers about her CIA employment, prior to such "cover" being "blown" in the press.

Here's an example of Joe's apparently routine and open bragging about Valerie being a "CIA agent," which became known directly to me over a year ago:

He certainly bragged about it per a famous and highly reliable source's (named below) account of his own face-to-face encounter with Amb. Joe Wilson prior to Valerie Plame's "outing" as a CIA agent/employee.

Based upon a personal conversation (we were in a small group eating; it was NOT an "off the record") I had with eminent historian Victor Davis Hanson (we were at a luncheon table together during a trip to Europe), it appeared entirely possible that Joe Wilson himself was the (or one source, if not the original one) possible source in revealing his own wife's status as a CIA agent or employee.

Victor Davis Hanson (Wilson presumably knew Victor Davis Hanson wrote regularly for NRO (National Review Online), had done OpEds for the Wall street Journal, and other publications, and had his own Website with a widespread following) said he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were both in the same "Green Room" before a televised debate-discussion on Iraq, etc. and Joe first warned the TV make-up person not to get powder on his $14,000 Rolex watch, then he bragged to Victor about several things (possessions and trips to Aspen, etc.), like his expensive car (I think it was a Mercedes), and then bragged about his beautiful wife who, Joe Wilson said (braggingly) was a CIA operative.

I asked Victor Davis Hanson Why he didn't write up this account.(?) He replied that Joe Wilson would probably simply deny it, since only he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were in the Green Room together before the broadcast.

However, it is now easy to surmise that Joe Wilson is a crass, materialistic, self-promoting, vain, egotistical, bragaddocio-opportunist, so this account is perfectly consistent with Valerie Plame's TWO photo shoots in Vanity Fair. (Or was it Vogue? No, probably too crass for Vogue, n'est pas?)


8 posted on 07/17/2005 3:26:00 PM PDT by FReethesheeples (Gonzales appears to be quite WEAK on Property rights!)
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