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Fitzgerald mum on leaks case in NIU speech
DeKALB - On the day after documents filed in the Valerie Plame-CIA leak case set off a new round of criticism of the Bush administration, the man overseeing the case's prosecution came to Northern Illinois University.
But if the standing-room-only crowd of mostly law students and professors had questions about the latest allegation in the case -- that President Bush himself authorized leaking of classified information - U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald wasn't about to answer them.
“I'll take your questions, other than on the CIA leak case,” he said, following his approximately 20-minute address, this year's Francis X. Riley Lecture on Professionalism at the NIU College of Law.
The statement drew a lot of laughter, and for the most part
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