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Patrick Fitzgerald Press Conference Transcript
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 28 October 2005 | Patrick Fitzgerald

Posted on 10/28/2005 6:35:34 PM PDT by demlosers

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To: Kryptonite

Unwise, and I expect he will get his head handed to him during trial.


41 posted on 10/28/2005 9:14:45 PM PDT by demlosers
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To: wolf24

Almost every single person who works at the CIA has a job that is "classified" in one way or another.

That doesn't mean they are UNDERCOVER.

I felt like he was a self-rightous crusader speaking for the CIA. I thought it was VERY inappropriate.

Very biased. And sure as hell not fair.


42 posted on 10/28/2005 9:22:03 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Kryptonite

Doesn't matter what statute you use?

Good grief.


43 posted on 10/28/2005 9:23:08 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: demlosers; Howlin

His comments are very revealing. In effect he acknowledges that the government has no interest in criminalizing even the knowing transmission of information about a person with classified status (because there is no law against it), and he admits that his investigation of the facts cannot lead him to conclude that Plame was covert.

There is no interest his prosecution is vindicating - none on the facts or the law - relating to the release of either classified information or the identity of a covert agent.

His words speak for themselves.




44 posted on 10/28/2005 9:31:08 PM PDT by Kryptonite (McCain, Graham, Warner, Snowe, Collins, DeWine, Chafee - put them in your sights)
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To: Kryptonite

"Unwise"? No, he's just a "gotcha" guy, who just wanted another notch on his belt.


45 posted on 10/28/2005 9:35:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: onyx

It doesn't and that's because it's all smoke and mirrors and stinky garbage.


46 posted on 10/28/2005 9:37:44 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

He IS unwise, like a child. He talks about national security in the absract, and then reveals that his indictment advances no interest whatsoever in protecting national security in the actual context of this case.


48 posted on 10/28/2005 9:47:51 PM PDT by Kryptonite (McCain, Graham, Warner, Snowe, Collins, DeWine, Chafee - put them in your sights)
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To: SERKIT
He looked like a deer in the headlights and/or a third grader, who has to give a speech to an audience of adults, in the theory of relativity or quantum physics.
50 posted on 10/28/2005 9:52:39 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Kryptonite
True.

Fitz has no case and he has now blown his own credibility and reputation.

51 posted on 10/28/2005 9:59:50 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: demlosers
"This indictment is not about the war. This indictment's not about the propriety of the war."

That very operative quote must be thrown in the face of every DUmb lefty who tries to use the indictment to criticize the war in Iraq.
52 posted on 10/28/2005 10:04:37 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: wolf24

He can't...without making things worse for himself. He basically wasted two years and a whole LOT of money on this nothing of a case.


54 posted on 10/28/2005 10:09:58 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Kryptonite
Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer. In July 2003, the fact that Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer was classified. Not only was it classified, but it was not widely known outside the intelligence community.

How is it that this man can make these statements, have no obligation to share his findings in a report and then claim to be acting in the best interests of our national security? As far as I'm concerned his reverence for the CIA should have been shaken to the bone by the Wilsons, their Niger caper and how the information was ultimately used. Here is an excerpt from Pincus' June 12, 2003 article before Joe went public:

...alleged attempt to buy uranium in Niger -- was disputed by a CIA-directed mission to the central African nation in early 2002, according to senior administration officials and a former government official. But the CIA did not pass on the detailed results of its investigation to the White House or other government agencies, the officials said. Link

55 posted on 10/28/2005 10:28:24 PM PDT by Dolphy
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To: Dolphy
By his own admission, the fact that she was classified is irrelevant to this investigation. He admitted, as noted in my post above, that there is no law whatsoever that addresses the release of information on a person whose status is merely classified, instead of covert and classified.

In your posted excerpt he's relying on irrelevant material to justify his prosecution of a witness he claims lied about information *material* to his investigation.

And yes, he's totally missing the forest through the trees on what is really in the best interests of national security. Are we safer throwing Libby in jail or finding out why the CIA should be able to withhold information from the President the agency serves?

56 posted on 10/28/2005 10:51:51 PM PDT by Kryptonite (McCain, Graham, Warner, Snowe, Collins, DeWine, Chafee - put them in your sights)
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To: Dolphy

bttt


57 posted on 10/28/2005 11:28:04 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
I was disappointed with the Miers pick. I want a brilliant conservative.

One thing, I followed the Bolton confirmation hearings closely and the Republicans were terrible on that. From the chairman to the members.

Bush doesn't want to go into battle with the weak Republican senators. We need to write our Senators to help them get some backbone.
58 posted on 10/29/2005 2:06:36 AM PDT by Patriot from Philly
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To: demlosers

Investigators do not set out to investigate the statute, they set out to gather the facts.

It's critical that when an investigation is conducted by prosecutors, agents and a grand jury they learn who, what, when, where and why. And then they decide, based upon accurate facts, whether a crime has been committed, who has committed the crime, whether you can prove the crime and whether the crime should be charged.
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At some point very early in the process, don't investigators ask: "If the facts turn out a certain way, can I indict? If not, shouldn't I stop the investigation?"

In other words, it seems Fitzgerald could have determined fairly early on whether Plame was confidential or covert. If just confidential and not covert, would leaking her identity be a prosecutable offense? It does not look like it. So why did he continue?

Do prosecutors really gather "all the facts" so they can determine 'why the pitcher threw the pitch at the batters head' even when the most damning possible explanation would not amount to a crime?


59 posted on 10/29/2005 2:43:28 AM PDT by Rumierules
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To: ModelBreaker

You ar 100% correct. This case is over. Plus Libby will never go to trail. A deal will be cut, because Fitzgerald will make one. Karl Rove is free as a bird. David Boies, Al Gore's lawyer in 2000 said yesterday that Fitzgerald is done with Rove. End of story. There is nothing here, there was never anything there, and this will be forgetten in short shrift. The real criminal here is Joe Wilson and the Democrat "Traitor" Party. THe Democrats are about to be taken to the woodshed on GW Bush's POTUS nominee. Conservatives are fired up, and this idiot Fitzgerald has only served to fire them up some more.


60 posted on 10/29/2005 2:50:04 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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