Mr Mitchell also responded to speculation that the Portuguese authorities may shortly close the case.
His bosses come down hard: they want him to close the case without any political fallout.
When a young cadet is found dead the authorities are keen to close the case quickly.
The court has been under pressure to close the case rapidly, the BBC's David Willey reports from Vatican City.
For 2009 Offshore Volunteer Disclosure Initiative (OVDI) opt-outs, the IRS took approximately 550 days to close the case after the opt-out election.
There was no formal ruling on the issues because the two sides came to an agreement that was entered as a consent decree to close the case.
After a 30-month inquiry, India's federal detective agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), went to a court on Wednesday in Ghaziabad, near Delhi, to close the case.
Others under consideration: disgruntled security guards or Olympic vendors who lost money during the Games, sources close to the case have told CNN.
To prepare for the moment, people close to the case tell TIME, Tripp has spent more than 100 hours going over her tapes and other evidence with Starr's deputies, lending context and details to what Lewinsky said.
Before a gag order was imposed in April by the judge, a source close to the case told CNN's Jason Carroll the defense would argue the letters in question were not inappropriate.
The prosecution is preparing witnesses for their testimony next week, several sources close to the case said Tuesday.
Sources close to the case said the government may pronounce it closed as soon as Tuesday.
Those close to the case have said it is not clear whether the attack was domestic or foreign in origin.
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People close to the case say it is coming but this defense, or lack of one, may be a sign of the new defense for white-collar crimes.
The players and owners verbally agreed to terms of a new CBA. However, as I recently explained on Forbes, they have to execute a settlement agreement first to close out the court case.
The Chinese consulate told broadcaster CTV they had been "paying close attention and tracking the latest developments in the case, and kept in close contact with Canadian police".
Four policemen have been suspended and a fifth transferred over the handling of a suspected new rape and murder case close to the Indian capital, Delhi.
"Shopping, when the kids are doing something cute--the best-use case is close family, the people you talk to when you don't care what you look like, " Setton says.
Armstrong and Burke that allegedly show the two were close, the person familiar with the case said.
They planned to stay close to the coast in case they needed to pull in, though there were a few short crossings where they would be unprotected.
It is always difficult to predict what the Supreme Court will do, and almost everyone agrees this is a close case. (The two federal courts to hear it so far have split, with Clinton winning at the trial level and Jones on appeal.) But there are good reasons to believe that the court may be reluctant to allow Jones' suit to go forward.
The hung jury brought to a close a chapter in the high-profile case, which has lasted for months.
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It has taken nearly nine years for investigators to come close to a break in the case.
Justice Paul's ruling obliged the defence to close its case prematurely.
Let me just cite a few examples, there are many more available, but they're from people and sources that are familiar with the case and close to the evidence, and some coming from the presentations of just last week.
In the case of Japan, the keiretsu and their close affiliations with banks represented a new model of doing business that emphasized long-term relations between firms, their suppliers, customers, employees and banks.
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But a close look at the history of the case--and related cases--revealed the Court was likely to rule against investors from the start.
Sergeant Jorge Duran, supervisor of the San Diego cold case unit, has used the media to close old cases.
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