Alum Takes on the White House: Exclusive with Patrick J. Fitzgerald

Regis High School's Newspaper, The Owl ^ | April 5, 2006 | Joseph Santo, '06

[HitmanLV]

Patrick Fitzgerald gave an exclusive interview to my old high school newspaper, The Owl. Enjoy!

[Rummyfan]

Speaking for his entire staff Fitzgerald said, “I have 160 employees in my office; many have a great sense of humor, and many have outside interests. But they do not wear that on their sleeve when they are going into court and prosecuting a violent criminal.”

And Pat himself is going after the dangerous uber-criminal Scooter Libby!

[tobyhill]

The only advise that I could give to these wonderful High School students would be to stay in school, go to college and do something honorable with your lives.

[Logical me]

BS

[kjo]

Double BS

[the Real fifi]

I don't know, the kids had the facts wrong enough to be writing for the NYT and they haven't even been to J school yet.

[HitmanLV]

Yep, Scooter does impress me as a dangerous, violent criminal! Haha!

Realize that Fitz is being a nice guy here and just giving an interview to his (and my) alma mater's newspaper. It's nice that he did it, even if it is very much a high school newspaper article. :-)

[Just mythoughts]

Look at this heap.

[HitmanLV]

Fitz is a graduate of Regis High School, one of the finest high schools in the nation.

Regis students tend to be very bright but very establishment, and more conventional rather than genuinely creative.

Most grow up to be doctors or lawyers, working long hours in cubicles in thankless jobs, and turning around as they approach age 40 and realize they hate their lives and wives and just want a way out.

That was the scuttlebutt at the reunion a few days ago, I hear. :-)

[jennyjenny]

Do you suppose Fitz had the opportunity to read this and suggest corrections before it was printed? There is so much that is wrong with it.

[davisfh]

"...go to college and do something honorable with your lives."

Indeed! And while everyone is at it, get used to the fact that Valerie Plame was not a covert agent and was, in fact, birthing Joe Wilson's "get" (God forbid that he should ever have been allowed to procreate). I don't know how these shameless fools on the left continue to pound away at this silly story. I guess they just don't have anything else going for their sorry behinds. The only cover she had been under was that which covered Joe Wilson's bed. Nasty thought there!!

[HitmanLV]

It's just a puff piece in his old high school's newspaper, not an example of crackerjack investigative journalism. :-)

[ElkGroveDan]

[HitmanLV]

I don't know, the kids had the facts wrong enough to be writing for the NYT and they haven't even been to J school yet.

Haha! I think he was just impressed and wowed by Fitz talking to him, that's all.

[jennyjenny]

Maybe, but he still needs to learn to get his facts straight.

[HitmanLV]

Do you suppose Fitz had the opportunity to read this and suggest corrections before it was printed?

Regis HS is a very establishment place, which actually in my time tended to be conservative in its politics (students conservative, profs more liberal). I don't know if it changed since then, but it was that way in the 1980s.

No doubt in my mind that the original draft was sent to Fitz for his OK. Regians don't rock the boat. This is a puff piece, not a piece of journalism. That's all.

[HitmanLV]

If Judge Starr went to Regis and gave an interview to the high school paper, it wold probably have equally been a puff piece.

[PISANO]

Oh where to begin???

No sense in disputing a HIGH SCHOOL lefty puff piece. Needless to say virtually everything in the article is a 1/2 truth or a lie by ommission.

We live in strange times when ANYTHING can and IS reported as truth whether it is or NOT.

Such is the legacy of Clinton and his; "It all depends on what the meaning of the word is, IS!"

[DB]

"While the disclosure of any CIA officer’s identity constitutes a criminal act, the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity in July 2003 has even greater and further-reaching implications."

Can't even get the facts straight in the beginning of the "interview".

It is not in fact a criminal act to "disclose a CIA officer's identity".

I guess this "journalist" is ready to work at the New York Times... Truth is what they say it is...

[pankot]

Will anyone go after Mary McCarthy?