Posted on 09/21/2006 2:02:22 PM PDT by Mikey_1962
WASHINGTON - The judge in the CIA leak case ruled Thursday that if Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald feels that admitting certain classified documents at the upcoming trial of I Lewis "Scooter" Libby can jeopardize national security, Fitzgerald can then move to dismiss the perjury charges against Libby.
Judge Reggie Walton cannot automatically allow classified materials to be admitted at trial. He first must go through a series of closed hearings under CIPA regulations. CIPA, the Classified Information Procedures Act, protects and restricts the discovery of classified information in a way that does not impair the defendant's right to a fair trial. It also allows the government to propose a redacted version of a classified document as a substitution for the original, having deleted only non-relevant classified information.
In his ruling this morning, the Judge Walton, has given a technical legal victory to Libby's attorneys concerning the admissibility of classified materials they want to present at trial for their defense.
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Only, if he indites Wilson.
Fitzgerald has lost his reputation, so maybe Scooter can use that one when this is all done.
In my opinion, he's the onlyt real scumbag in this whole deal.
"Fitzmas" now officially means an event that is a heartbreaking disappointment for the Dems. The great thing about Fitzmas, is that it can happen many times a year! I plan to celebrate my next Fitzmas on November 8th.
No Suzy, there is no Fitzmas.
Maybe the previous poster hasn't been following this farce as well as many of us.
There can be no doubt now that Fitzie was doing a dishonorable job here. Hopefully the DOJ will wake up now and investigate Fitz!
Fitzgerald, like so many prosecutors, was the tattle-tale jerk you hated in school, who ratted to the teacher every minor transgression.
FITZMAS! I love it!
LOL! Vey inventive!
I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might like to buy.
Just another criminal getting off on a technicality. /sarc.
Take it with my blessing, just so you can't claim adverse possesion!
Who put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong?
Who put the ham in the Mo-ham-meh-hed?
If you are old enough to recognize that, the song will now be stuck in your head for hours. Muhuhahahaha!
One week later, the New York Times will reveal all those classified secrets, anyway (courtesy of Fitz), so there will be a bonus for the libs after all.
Bingo!
I understand even Chris Matthews is not taking any phone calls from Fitz.
It has gotten real bad for the SpecProsecutor!
Courtesy of NewsBusters.com
Ken Starr = Puritanical Peeping Tom! Patrick Fitzgerald = Sexy!
Posted by Geoffrey Dickens on November 16, 2005 - 15:07
Back during the impeachment days of the late 90s Ken Starr was portrayed as an out-of-control prosecutor peeping through Bill Clinton's Oval Office window. Fast forward to this morning's Today show and we find Patrick Fitzgerald is getting the star treatment from People magazine.
At 7:51am Today had an exclusive unveiling of People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue and it turns out Fitzgerald made the list:
Katie Couric: "Do you have the thinking woman's sex symbol in there at any point?"
Julie Jordan, People magazine: "Yes. Yeah like we got lots of smart men. Patrick Fitzgerald. I love that he actually is..."
Couric: "The special prosecutor. Oh my gosh he must've been so freaked out when he got the call! He keeps dirty socks at work and apparently has pizza boxes up to the ceiling at his house."
I heard recently that most public officials have liability insurance (similar to the kind of coverage doctors have) that covers this sort of thing.
Anyone know if that is true?
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