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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 11:25 PM
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"The Prosecutor: The Mystery Man"
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"Patrick Fitzgerald has sent a reporter to jail and pulled back the curtain on top staffers' press chats. Does he have a case?"

"July 25 issue - Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1970s, Patrick Fitzgerald was so determined to attend the prestigious Regis High School that even a rejection letter couldn't keep him away. When his carefully prepared application was denied, Fitzgerald dialed up Regis's director of admissions and protested that there must have been some mistake. Sure enough, the school had mixed up his entrance exam with that of another Patrick Fitzgerald of Brooklyn who got lower marks. The right Patrick Fitzgerald entered Regis that fall."

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"That doesn't mean he's afraid to step on some toes, especially when they belong to members of the media. Associates say Fitzgerald is wary of reporters, dating back to his days trying terrorist cases. Concerned about protecting national security, he'd go to extraordinary lengths to keep sensitive material secret, only to see it published by meddling journalists. A particularly annoying offender, coincidentally, was Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter. Fitzgerald sent her to jail earlier this month for failing to comply with a court order to testify before the grand jury about conversations she had with sources on a matter about which she never wrote a story. In an earlier, unrelated clash, Fitzgerald had accused Miller of compromising a probe into Islamic charities by phoning one of the groups just before a government crackdown. Launching a leak investigation, he tried to get ahold of Miller's phone records and those of a colleague at the Times. The Times claimed its reporters were following standard practice and that there was no evidence they compromised a federal investigation. A federal judge quashed Fitzgerald's subpoenas."


More on "The Mystery Man"..
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8599914/site/newsweek/


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Corgigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 11:30 PM
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1. Ah
He's a New Yorker.

Oh then the Bush company is screwed. Good to know.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 11:36 PM
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2. Something about those "New Yorker's"!
You just pointed out something to me that reeks of "Karma's a Bitch".

If Fitzgerald(New Yorker) gets his man or men it will come full circle from when the rovians started this whole thing by not doing anything about the warnings from the Clinton admin regarding terrorists and disregarding the August 6 memo and going on vacation for the month of August and whatever else they did to ignore the warning signs of 9/11.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 11:42 PM
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3. So.... the WH is leaking info...
that basically helps protect terror groups, and their channel is Miller.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 07:53 AM
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4. Hope Fitzgerald Can Wrap This Up In Time For Impeachment Trials!
Diogenes can stop looking.
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