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Taliban John: The Discovery Motion By Henry Mark Holzer FrontPageMagazine.com | April 5, 2002 ON MONDAY, JOHN WALKER LINDH’S LAWYERS were in Virginia federal court making what lawyers call a “discovery” motion, trying to obtain information from the government bearing on their client’s defense. Apparently treated as routine by the media – Associated Press ran a short wire service story; CNN had little to report – the hearing was anything but routine, especially because of one particular card the defense tried to play. To understand the defense tactics at play in its discovery motion, we have to differentiate between different...

Justice for Hanoi Jane’s Victims Ronald Radosh reviews Aid and Comfort: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam by Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer FrontPageMagazine.com | March 26, 2002 A FRIEND OF MINE -- an ex-radical who became a conservative and Deputy Sheriff of a Vermont town -- has a bumper sticker on his pickup truck that reads "Hanoi Jane Not Welcome Here." I admit to always having felt uncomfortable reading it, since it seemed to me to be an unnecessary reminder of the terrible, polarized atmosphere surrounding the war in Vietnam. It was a time when ultra-conservative supporters of the...

The case against 'Hanoi Jane' Lawyer, author Hank Holzer tells Metcalf actress committed treason Posted: March 17, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's Note: Though it has been 30 years since Jane Fonda's notorious visit to North Vietnam, many Americans have been unable to forget the actress's behavior in enemy territory. By cozying up to America's communist foe in the Vietnam War, Fonda earned the nickname "Hanoi Jane" and the contempt of U.S. soldiers and patriots. In a new book titled "Aid and Comfort: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam," lawyer Hank Holzer outlines the legal case against Fonda, saying the actress...

TALIBAN JOHN: READING BROSNAHAN'S MIND Henry Mark Holzer Well, so far the ride has been pretty interesting. Here we got this kid from Marin County who winds up being flushed out of a nowhere Afghan dungeon with his al-Qaeda buddies after some CIA guy gets killed. The country wants Lindh's head. The administration's obliging. And I'm supposed to defend him. Until now its been hoopla time. Demanding I be allowed to see him in Afghanistan. Complaining he's been denied counsel. Accusing the feds of coercing him. Arguing Lindh wasn't dangerous or a flight risk. Holding sidewalk press conferences. Trying to ...

TALIBAN JOHN CHAPTER 5: THE BAIL HEARING Henry Mark Holzer A lot more happened at John Walker Lindh's bail hearing than has been reported. On the surface, the story was that the day following Lindh's indictment, a federal magistrate judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied his lawyers' application that their client be released on bail into the custody of his parents. What has not been analyzed, however, is what the bail hearing revealed about the defense's current strategy, the government's evidence, and the implications of the judge's ruling. The background to ...

TALIBAN JOHN --CHAPTER 4: THE INDICTMENT Henry Mark Holzer Chapter 1 in the tale of John Walker began when CNN broadcast photos and an interview with the filthy, wounded Taliban/al-Qaeda fighter. It ended with his transfer to first one Navy ship and then another in the Arabian Sea. Chapter 2 consisted of silence about what was happening to Walker-Lindh, but much speculation about what would happen. I predicted no treason indictment (for my reasons see www.talibanjohn.info), and charges being laid under 18 United States Code Sections 371 and 2332: conspiracy to kill Americans. Another possibility I suggested was providing "material ...

NOT EVEN SIX MONTHS have passed since September 11, but already the "America-Last" movement struggles to find an "issue" to use as a rallying point for undermining the Bush Administration's War on Terrorism. Along with sit-ins, candle lightings, prayer offerings, and incantations of stale, naive, anti-American slogans such as, "give peace a chance," "no 'eye for an eye’," "let's not become like them," and "violence never solved anything." But this time -- unlike during the Vietnam War -- they've run into a virtually solid wall of indifference from the American public and its elected representatives. Although the anti-war movement enjoys ...

TALIBAN JOHN - CHAPTER 3: THE CHARGES Henry Mark Holzer Chapter 1 in the tale of John Walker began when CNN broadcast photos and an interview with the filthy, wounded Taliban/al-Qaeda fighter. It ended with his transfer to first one Navy ship and then another in the Arabian sea. Chapter 2 has consumed us for the past several weeks, while the public and press debated and speculated over what Walker could, and should, be charged with. I have written here and elsewhere that while a treason indictment and conviction was not nearly as difficult as some have claimed - and ...

WOW, as President did I make a mistake calling that Walker kid misguided. Where were my political people on that one? This has become a real mess. Thanks to Newsweek, CNN, and other media, every day Walker looks worse and worse. He got radicalized by Malcolm X. He approved of the attacks on the Cole, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He trained and marched and fought with al-Qaeda, and maybe even met bin Laden. He stonewalled Mike Spann's interrogation, and may have been involved in his murder. He admitted his outfit and the camps were funded by bin ...

TALIBAN JOHN: READING ASHCROFT'S MIND Henry Mark Holzer Professor Emeritus, Brooklyn Law School (Published December 26, 2001) Well, the Boss has asked for options about how to deal with Walker. The good part is that he's made it clear that I'm to ignore political considerations. Apparently, Rove and the other political mechanics in the White House aren't going to have any input into this. Maybe Rumsfeld, because of all the other prisoners we have, but not anybody else. Only the President. And the other day, he said Walker faces a grim future. The bad part is that he may not ...

Arafat’s Suicide Factory New York Post December 9, 2001 In declaring his own war on terrorism last week, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made a surprising claim. He said that Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, "is responsible for everything that is happening here," a reference to the onslaught of four suicide operations that had just left 26 Israelis dead and some 200 wounded. To which one might reasonably ask: Why blame Arafat? No one blames President Bush for the catastrophe on Sept. 11 or other politicians for the terrorism that occurs on their watch. Why should it be different with ...

"EVERYONE LOVES HIM," said his mom. "He's a really good boy, a really sweet boy." Marilyn Walker was referring to her son, John Phillip Walker - aka Abdul Hamid - most recently seen on international television wounded, starved, and filthy from his several-day stay in the basement of a muddy makeshift prison in Northwest Afghanistan. Mr. Hamid, an American citizen fighting on the side of the Taliban (and almost certainly the Al Qaeda forces of Osama bin Laden) was flushed out of his hideout through the application of freezing water, which wrote the final chapter to the prisoner revolt at ...

J'ACCUSE Henry Mark Holzer In the late 1880s, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew, was railroaded to Devils Island by military and other anti-semites as the scapegoat in a notorious espionage case. One of his champions was Emile Zola, the French writer. Zola's pamphlet, J'accuse, attacking the government, loudly proclaimed what many had only whispered, and helped turn the tide in Dreyfus' favor. Zola, however, was imprisoned. Happily, unlike Nineteenth Century France, in America my accusations against some of those who have contributed to today's terrorist threat are protected by the First Amendment. I accuse former Senator Frank Church of ...

HANOI JANE: SOFT ON TERRORISTS HENRY MARK HOLZER and ERIKA HOLZER Jane Fonda is at it again. Nearly thirty years ago, she went to North Viet Nam and aided a Communist anti-American propaganda campaign. (See www.Hanoijane.net.) Now, in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, she is once again undermining the United States — this time, by blurring a crucially important distinction. On September 20th, Fonda reportedly told an Atlanta radio station that Americans should “try to understand the underlying causes” of the terrorist attacks which, in her view, must “be dealt with as a crime. And when there’s ...

MEMO: CITY BUILDINGS THREATENED BY TERROR By AL GUART July 8, 2001 -- There have been "eight years of direct threats" by international terrorists against busy government buildings in lower Manhattan - despite public claims to the contrary by city officials, The Post has learned. An internal memo written last year by a high-ranking federal law-enforcement official stationed at 26 Federal Plaza stated: "The threat issue that permeates this facility's vulnerabilities is predominantly caused by international radical terrorism (IRT), which has presented eight years of direct threats to N.Y.C. Civic Center Facilities." The Civic Center includes city, state and federal ...

""Prostitution, drugs, corruption, that money ends up there. Every African dictator has an account over there. The Russian mob has their money there." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The masts belonging to hundreds of yachts still bob in the harbor. The Rolls-Royces still purr up to the front of the copper-domed Monte Carlo casino. But all is not quite business as usual. Damning reports, accusing Monaco of being lax on money laundering, have been coming fast and furious lately, culminating in October with a surprisingly harsh one from the French Ministry of Finance. Either Monaco would shape up, or France would shape it up, ...

Consulate of the United States of America March 17, 2001 Ms. Martha Melzow 12 Boulevard Paul Peytral 13286 Marseille Cedex 6 Fax 01133491550947 Dear Marty: It was a pleasure meeting you for lunch during my stay in Monaco. I appreciate you taking the time to travel to see me during my visit. I have represented Americans imprisoned in approximately two-dozen countries in the last 25 years. I have worked closely with the Bureau of Consular Services and various country desks of the State Department to ensure that rights of Americans imprisoned overseas have not been violated. Likewise, I have been ...

http://www.enteract.com/~peterk/britannica.html Christopher Hitchens to PeterK: Subject: Re: Britannica Date: Saturday, March 10, 2001 1:12 AM Dear Peter, Thank you for inquiring about the abrupt cancellation of my advertised on-line chat with Britannica, scheduled for last Thursday 8 March, and thanks, too, to all those who were curious enough to wonder what happened. All that I can state with certainty is this. A couple of hours before the appointed time, I heard a message in a servile and lugubrious Australian accent on my voicemail, telling me that the announced and arranged exchange would not take place. I have since learned that ...

The fiery deaths of billionaire banker Edmond Safra and a nurse in Monaco in December 1999 likely resulted from the actions — or inaction — of Monaco police, according to a report by French authorities, the Daily News has learned. The report, ordered by Patricia Richet, chief examining magistrate of the Monaco district court, concluded that police prevented firefighters from attacking the blaze for two crucial hours. The previously unpublished May report, portions of which were obtained by The News, describes a tragic Keystone Kops scenario in which police and the fire brigade were called at 5:10 a.m. Dec. 3, ...

MONACO "JUSTICE" DEMANDS 100,000-FRANCS & ROLEX AS BRIBE TO ESCAPE KAFKAESQUE SYSTEM--TED MAHER'S NOT-EXCELLENT "ADVENTURE" CONTINUES. 11/02/01 20:36 Dear Heidi, I received your fax message yesterday, in fact, it took me almost full 8 month and 11 hard discussions in front of the court of appeal to finally leave that lousy place. During my stay I spend something more than a month with Ted. His is in fact a terrible situation only in Monaco or some African country can occur. The main problem in dealing with any penal case in Monaco is that they use a particular modified French penal ...