I've been composing a thread of White House officials and RW pundits praising Patrick Fitzgerald and his investigation (see in progress excerpts/ links below), now that the WH is backing Scooter's defense that the Fitzgerald appointment was not legitimate. I have been trying to locate any article (with quote) of B*sh praising Fitzgerald and his investigation- remember that? I've Googled, and gone to a number of sites but am not finding anything. (???) DId the WH/ Rove engineer an internet scrubbing in anticipation of Scooter's defense and trashing/ de-legitimizing Fitzgerald?
Can anyone find this story, or forward any info on when B*sh made the comments praising Patrick Fitzgerald, such as date and/or place?I am not a member of NYT Select... I'll bet there's something in the archive.
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on edit: thanks for the links regarding Bush's comment- CNN.com article added below. Gotta say, the direct quote had to be Googled to get results, I find that peculiar.)
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/14/fitzgerald/index.htmlThe Bush administration is treating Fitzgerald very respectfully.
"The special prosecutor is conducting a very serious investigation," President Bush said this week. "He's doing it in a very dignified way, by the way. And We'll see what he says."
Fitzgerald has been called ``the original Untouchable.'' Like Eliott Ness.
No one has accused Fitzgerald of having a partisan agenda. That's rare in Washington. It gives Fitzgerald enormous power. And the Play of the Week.----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/wp-print.php?p=4927Interpret this as you will, but for all the talk we've heard about prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's precarious future, Alberto Gonzales seemed quite effusive in his praise for the U.S. attorney yesterday.
After visiting with U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald on Monday morning to see how he and his staff are handling their workload, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Fitzgerald has his full support.
"I wanted to meet with his team and express my gratitude and appreciation for all the good work that this office is doing," he said. "As attorney general, I have great confidence in Pat Fitzgerald."
Gonzales spoke at Chicago's Hyatt Regency Hotel in the Loop during an American Bar Association annual meeting. During an editorial board meeting Monday afternoon at the Chicago Tribune, Gonzales said he did not think there had been any conversations at the White House about replacing Fitzgerald, whose term ends in October.---------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10039Unlike Archibald Cox and Lawrence Walsh, Patrick Fitzgerald is no posturing partisan who assumed he had been chosen by Divine Providence to take on a White House and bring down a president.
Pat Fitzgerald is a strict constructionist of the law. And for that, the Bush White House can be eternally grateful.
As indictment week began, there were reports Karl Rove, "Scooter" Libby and several other White House aides would be indicted in a criminal conspiracy to violate the civil rights of Joe Wilson and out his wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA agent.
Some thought Fitzgerald would name Vice President Cheney an unindicted co-conspirator, as Nixon was in Watergate, and put the Bush White House on trial for having lied the country into war. -------------------------------------------
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3668-2004Jun24.html Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald and several assistants questioned the president for about 70 minutes in the Oval Office yesterday morning. A White House spokesman declined to comment on the substance of the interview but said Bush, who was accompanied by a private lawyer, was not placed under oath.
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"The leaking of classified information is a very serious matter," said White House press secretary Scott McClellan, adding that Bush was "pleased to do his part" to aid the probe.
"No one wants to get to the bottom of this matter more than the president of the United States, and he has said on more than one occasion that if anyone -- inside or outside the government -- has information that can help the investigators get to the bottom of this, they should provide that information to the officials in charge." -------------------------------------------
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/011794.htmlPatrick Fitzgerald's four year term as U.S. attorney in Illinois is set to expire in October. Some have wondered whether Bush would replace him. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, speaking at the American Bar Association Meeting in Chicago today, tried to lay such doubts to rest.
US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald got a vote of confidence from his boss Monday. There had been speculation Fitzgerald's aggressive investigations in Chicago and Washington might have angered important people and that Fitzgerald might not get reappointed.
The US attorney general, Alberto Gonzalez made it clear in Chicago Monday that a controversial and high-visibility justice department subordinate, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, will probably be reappointed by President Bush when his four-year term expires in October.
"You'll have to ask the president as to whether or not he intends to find a new US attorney for this district. I will say from my vantage point as the attorney general, I have great confidence in Pat Fitzgerald," said Alberto Gonzalez, attorney general.
One of Patrick Fitzgerald's predecessors in the US attorney's office, Chicago lawyer Tom Sullivan, says the Gonzalez message is pretty clear. "If Mr. Gonzalez is being frank and open with you, then the president will allow Patrick Fitzgerald to continue to serve for another term," said Tom Sullivan, former US attorney. ---------------------------------------------------
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