Patrick Fitzgerald
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"Patrick J. Fitzgerald" is a lawyer in Chicago, Illinois. He joined, as partner, the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom as of October 29, 2012. For more than a decade, until June 30, 2012, Fitzgerald was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. As special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel, Fitzgerald was the federal prosecutor in charge of the investigation of the Plame affair/Valerie Plame Affair, which led to the prosecution and conviction in 2007 of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby for perjury.

As a federal prosecutor, Fitzgerald led a number of high-profile investigations, including ones that led to convictions of Illinois Governors Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan, media mogul Conrad Black, several aides to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley/Richard Daley in the Hired Truck Program, and Chicago detective and torturer Jon Burge.

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People who believe fervently in the war effort, people who oppose it, people who have mixed feelings about it, should not look to this indictment for any resolution of how they feel or any vindication of how they feel.

When you have a staged scene, ... there's a real good chance that the people who reported the crime are the ones who did it.

When you decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime, you want to know as many facts as possible. You want to know what their motive is. ... You want to know their intent. ... If you are asking me what his motives were, I can't tell you.

I was not surprised the appellate court overturned one small part of the dismissal. Her case survived another day, that doesn't give it more merit, in our view.

The damage wasn't to one person. It wasn't just Valerie Wilson. It was done to all of us.

I thought, 'This woman didn't die in this bed,'.

When citizens testify before grand juries, they are required to tell the truth. The requirement to tell the truth applies equally to all citizens including persons who hold high positions in government.

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He did love her.

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This is simply an indictment that says, in a national security investigation about the compromise of a CIA officer's identity that may have taken place in the context of a very heated debate over the war, whether some person -- a person, Mr. Libby -- lied or not.

The indictment states that a joint venture was created and that this joint venture was in fact a sham.