{"id":11376,"date":"2007-07-08T13:20:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T17:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11376.html"},"modified":"2007-07-08T13:20:51","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T17:20:51","slug":"calling-fitzgerald-to-testify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/calling-fitzgerald-to-testify\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Fitzgerald to testify?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2007\/07\/08\/sen-schumer-says-they-are-thinking-of-calling-patrick-fitzgerald-in-for-questioning\/\">this<\/a> ought to be interesting. From this morning&#8217;s Face the Nation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.): One thing, and I&#8217;ve spoken to [Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat] Leahy about this, that we&#8217;re thinking about doing is calling Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, before us.<\/p>\n<p>You know, he&#8217;s not allowed to talk about what happened before the grand jury, but he did interview the president and the vice president, not before a grand jury, and [Fitzgerald] might have some very interesting things to say.<\/p>\n<p>He issued a rare statement after the commutation that was very harsh in condemning it &#8212; and with good reason. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>CBS: When would you like to see Mr. Fitzgerald come to Capitol Hill?<\/p>\n<p>Schumer: Well, you know, this would be Sen. Leahy&#8217;s call, but I talked to him about it yesterday and he seemed inclined to do it. It would be very interesting and we&#8217;d like to hear what he has to say. Obviously he can&#8217;t talk about anything that occurred in the grand jury, but there&#8217;s a lot else that he might be able to tell us. Because obviously, with the commutation of Libby, and with no one else meeting a criminal standard, but still something terrible being done in the name of an agent being leaked&#8230;we sure want to get more answers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this ought to be interesting. From this morning&#8217;s Face the Nation: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.): One thing, and I&#8217;ve spoken to [Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat] Leahy about this, that we&#8217;re thinking about doing is calling Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, before us. You know, he&#8217;s not allowed to talk about what happened before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}