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Why I blew the whistle in America’s first 9/11 prosecution. Hint: bc the FBI & CIA #tortured the defendant. https://t.co/tLzdf5QyNY
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I blew the whistle on the American Taliban case after discovering that torture had been used during the investigation. The Department of Justice failed to disclose this evidence during the prosecution. I went to the media about it, which led to a criminal investigation against me and being put on the no-fly list. This experience showed me the power and aggression of the government when you go against their narrative, even if it's based on falsehoods.
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Speaker 0: Sure. I blew the whistle in the 1st high profile terrorism investigation and prosecution after 911 of a guy named John Walker Linde who was called the American Taliban. And, he was caught fighting, in Afghanistan. And and he they tried to they tried to prosecute him. But first, they had engaged in torture.
And as the ethics attorney at the Department of Justice. During the prosecution, they didn't turn over pretrial evidence that we had engaged in torture. And he had been blindfolded, gagged, kept in a coffin for many days, was starving and full of bullet holes and got no medical treatment. And, that that was not turned over to the court as part of the exculpatory evidence you have to turn over. So I ended up going to the media about that.
And after that, I, as an attorney as an ethics attorney was placed under a criminal investigation, referred to the state bars in which I'm licensed as a lawyer and put on the no by list. So that was then. And it made me realize, the magnitude and the ferocity the government could unleash if you bucked the party line even if the party line was a lie.