Exclusive Fitzgerald interview - under the radar?

[paineinthearse]

Pardon if a reprint, and the lateness, but I just discovered this today.

In the words of Murray Waas,

"...er, unfortunately not with me. And, morevoer, well, not with the New York Times or Washington Post either.

The exclusive was scored by one Joseph Santo, a senior at Regis High School, a Jesuit college-prep high school on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. Via Dan Froomkin, Santo scored the exclusive interview in part because Fitzgerald is an alumni of the school. High school kid beats the national press! Timely story, too, with Rove before the grand jury today and all.

Alas, Santo, however, wasn't able to get Fitzgerald to spill the beans on the Plame probe. Not the kid's fault: Fitzgerald is inscrutable even for more experienced journalists such as--er, myself. (What is a blog for except to talk about yourself?)

And Fitzgerald shows once again he is adept--even when he speaks--at not saying much of anything at all. He told Santo: "Every day is new and every day is interesting. I love being a prosecutor; it's a great job, and it's very engaging."

http://www.regis-nyc.org/news.cfm?ID=156&NewsID=754&Type=Main

Alum Takes on the White House: Exclusive with Patrick J. Fitzgerald
by Joseph R. Santo, '06

(Apr 5, 2006) - Patrick Fitzgerald ‘78, a well-respected and diligent federal prosecutor, was appointed by George W. Bush as Special Counsel for the ongoing “CIA Leak Case” of October 30, 2003.

The “CIA Leak Case” has the potential to be the “Watergate Scandal” of the Bush administration; the case is predicated upon the disclosure of CIA Officer Valerie Plame’s identity to the media.

While the disclosure of any CIA officer’s identity constitutes a criminal act, the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity in July 2003 has even greater and further-reaching implications. Valerie Plame is the wife of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who traveled to Niger in February 2002 to investigate claims that the Iraqis had purchased uranium yellowcake there. Ambassador Wilson reported that an Iraqi purchase of said material was “highly unlikely.”

However, in his 2003 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush said, “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” These mere sixteen words incited Ambassador Wilson to publicly rebuke the President. In a Washington Post article of July 6, 2003, Wilson claimed the Bush administration to be “misrepresenting the facts,” asking: “What else are they lying about?”

-- Snipped for copyright issues by Lithos --

[napi21]

1. It's nice to read a little about the personality of Fitz.

I think it was a vrey interesting question about Fitz possibly serving in a position of Presidential appointment. At least to me, that sounded like "possibly being AG someday...maybe under a Dem president????? With his intense belief of always doing the RIGHT THING, I think he'd make an excellent one!