Ray McGovern speaks Truth to Power! AND so does Jesselyn Radack

[ray of light]

(From Ray McGovern)

The biblical mandate is that we DO JUSTICE. Ironically, this seems an alien concept at the Justice Department, John Ashcroft's in-house bible study sessions notwithstanding. Never was this clearer than shortly after 9/11 when senior officials at Justice approved the torture and illegal interrogation of John Walker Lindh, the misguided young American captured in Afghanistan. Yes, the first torture victim was an American deliberately deprived of his rights, despite the strong objections of Jesselyn Radack, an ethics attorney at Justice who consulted on the case. The main result of this gross miscarriage of justice: Lindh is serving out a 20-year sentence. But there were other consequences.

Ms. Radack watched--in shock and awe, one might say--as her malleable supervisors caved in to the diktat of Criminal Division head (now Secretary of Homeland Security) Michael Chertoff to cover up the egregious misconduct. Call her attitude "quaint" or "obsolete," but Radack remained determined to honor her oath to defend the Constitution and had the courage to take on the system. She would not be intimidated.

Retaliation was swift and merciless, and the behavior of Justice officials and lawyer lackeys in the private sector reads like something out of Kafka. But when it became clear that she was about to be fired, Ms. Radack took clever precautions that show her more than a match for Chertoff and the legion of sycophants between him and her.

Ms. Radack's memoir, "The Canary in the Coalmine: Blowing the Whistle in the Case of the 'American Taliban,'" provides a gripping thrust-and-parry account of Justice's Mafia-like attempts to muzzle and then smear her. It is a real page-turner. More important, it should be required reading for incoming congressmen and senators on the committees with jurisdiction over Justice.

Ray McGovern
Steering Group
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity




A message from Jesselyn:

Bob Edwards had hosted Morning Edition for NPR for 25 years. It was a big controversy about a year ago when he left. He now has a daily program on channel 133 of XM Public Radio, and a weekend program, too. His interview with me is almost an hour long and set to air on Monday between 8:00 and 10:00 am, and as part of the weekend show.

Please listen and help me spread the word.

[illinoisprogressive]

1. I have alot of respect for Mr. McGovern.

I will never forget his confronting Rummy last year.

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2. check out Jesselyn Radack's site and read her book.

http://www.patriotictruthteller.net and listen to her on the show. SHe is every bit as admirable as Ray. I have been working with both of them and am so HONORED and IMPRESSED and PROUD to have met them.

Ray had a great speech at Camp Democracy too.

http://www.campdemocracy.org/dvd I think you can hear him on that video. (I haven't watched it yet.) But that's where I first got involved with Jesselyn Radack's book and with Ray McGovern's activism.

[rox63]

3. K&R for Ray and Jesselyn!

:kick:

[omega minimo]

4. K&R

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5. thanx! need one more rec!

[wildbilln864]

6. rec #5!

We must find out the whole truth about 911!
MIHOP!

[dwahzon]

7. K&R n/t

[wildbilln864]

8. and...

a kick fer ya!
:hi:

[wryter2000]

9. You go, Ray!

Next time he testifies before Congress it won't be in a basement storage room.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. here

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[Gabi Hayes]

11. democracy now interview

AMY GOODMAN: Jesselyn Radack was an adviser during the Lindh case. She raised legal and ethical objections over the questioning of John Walker Lindh without his attorney and revealed misconduct by Department of Justice officials. As a result, Jessica Radack charges that she was pushed out of her job, fired from her next job, put under criminal investigation and put on a no-fly list. She joins us on the studio today, actually by telephone from Washington, D.C. Welcome to Democracy Now!

JESSELYN RADACK: Thank you for having me.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you tell us your story? What happened? Start with the Lindh case.

JESSELYN RADACK: Basically, back when I worked for the Justice Department's Professional Responsibility Advisory Office, I happened to be the attorney on duty that day when John Depew, a prosecutor in the terrorism and violent crime section called seeking advice on having an FBI agent interrogate John Walker Lindh in Afghanistan. I was advising not on the legality of interrogating him, but on the ethics of interrogating him. Under the ethics rules governing contact with a represented person, I had, as has been reflected in the public record, advised that he should not be interviewed without his counsel, and that it would be a pre-indictment custodial interview which was not authorized by law. That was on a Friday. And then the counter-terrorism prosecutor called me back on Monday to advise that the FBI had interviewed him anyway, at which point I advised that the interview might have to be sealed, and only used for intelligence gathering purposes -- not for criminal prosecution, which, of course, is how it ended up being used. That, however, was not my -- my complaint. It was up -- I mean, the FBI was free to disregard our advice at their own peril. My concern was that later, I was given a performance evaluation that was baseless and told to find another job, or else it would be placed in my permanent personnel file.

I wasn’t sure what was going on, but it all became clear on March 7 when the lead prosecutor in the Lindh case contacted me and wanted to know if he had all of my email regarding John Walker Lindh's interrogation. I explained to him that there had been more than a dozen emails, and I didn't know why he had only two. I was worried immediately that something was amiss. And basically, I went to check the file, and did -- it had been purged of my email. I resurrected the missing email from my computer archives with the help of technical support and gave them to my boss. And promptly found another job at that point.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/13/1455248

[ray of light]

12. Ray's awsome speech!

http://campdemocracy.org/node/318

[Gabi Hayes]

13. first chapter of Raddack's book here:

http://www.patriotictruthteller.net/4.html

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14. Jess is speaking at the "Out of Gitmo" event in DC the 11th

This is all I know:

"Our evening panel will be a wrap-up to the day of events and will
focus on an overview of actions related to Guantanamo so far and
further ways to get involved and advocate moving forward. We have
two speakers lined up: Kristine Huskey from WCL and someone from CCR. The
panel will run from 6-8 pm, and we are awaiting a room confirmation
from Georgetown Law."

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15. kick

[bananarepublican]

16. This gal and guy are true American heroes!

Generally speaking, some media f-wit bestowing the "hero" label on somebody in reality means very little these days. In my book, Jesselyn and Ray meet the hero standard of old.

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17. It's ON right now! she sounds great.

they're talking about 9-11 and then the event when Lindh was involved.

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18. Can anyone make a recording and post it on youtube?

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19. Now she's discussing how the documents were missing and not sent

with the court order.

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20. they're talking about the whistleblower protection act...

and how she was fired,

and how the justice dept followed her to each new job to get her fired.

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21. now she's discussing why she had to self-pubish because

the book industry felt she was 'too angry' too much against Aschroft" "too much against Bush"...

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Like wouldn't anyone be?

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22. replaying the show tonight. LOTS of great responses to it.

[Independent_Liberal]

23. McGovern rocks!

He's one of the coolest ever!

:patriot: