Eugene Fidell Quotations

You don't have a D.A. thinking, I'm going to follow this wherever it leads.

It is a fact that having a request for a witness can be a form of leverage; it gives you something that you can negotiate with the other side about. If you don't ask, you're never going to have any leverage.

The administration has shown itself a number of times capable of changing course and speed in response to actual or feared legal developments, be it in the courts or in Congress. This may be another illustration of that tendency.

General Pace indicated that apparently the earlier investigations had not looked into whether negligent homicide had occurred, and that is exactly the first place that you would look in a case like this. It's quite baffling that it took this long to focus on that question.

How do you get there from here? They haven't persuaded me that this is valid, ... You have to have a disruption of civil authority before the military can perform activities such as surveillance.

It's indefensible that something like that happened. And if that change of positions was a function of people changing their stories, then the investigation really has to look into whether false official statements were made, or for that matter, whether there was an obstruction of justice.

It obviously could lead to one of three things. Was there a negligent homicide? Was there a dereliction of duty? Was there a cover-up?

It's to have an exhaustive look at the matter, not only from the standpoint of potentially assigning responsibility but finding out what happened and making recommendations of a systemic nature so that it doesn't happen again.

I think many people have come to conclude that the Supreme Court did nobody any favors by failing to move the ball further down the field.

We will have the equivalent of 'letters de cachet'.