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...media's discomfort, compelled several journalists to testify before the grand jury. He even forced the New York Times' Judith Miller to serve jail time when she wouldn't testify. After Libby was indicted essentially for lying, Fitzgerald defended the charges vigorously: "Any lie under oath is serious...
...prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, said that it was "actually sad that we had a situation that a high-level official obstructed justice and lied under oath. We wish that it had not happened, but it did. We are gratified by the jury's verdict...
...Libby for lying. Though seemingly a side issue, Fitzgerald told reporters it was like "throwing sand in the umpire's face," a serious transgression that stops investigators from doing their jobs. Today, Fitzgerald came back to that theme, stressing that to "have a high-level official do that under oath in a national security investigation is something that's not acceptable...
...first time in over 100 years, a layman—Josiah Quincy, class of 1790—took the oath of office. A tough politician, Quincy tried to lay down the law. In response, the students burned him in effigy in the Yard...
...south of Seattle, said he refused to go to war with his unit last June because he had come to the conclusion that the war in Iraq is illegal. In conversations with his superiors, in media interviews and at the court-martial this week he contended that his Army oath required him not to follow what he called an "illegal order" to deploy...