In case you missed it in my last article, Jesselyn Radack made no recommendation about what the government should do about the John Walker Lindh interrogation. In response to finding out that an FBI agent had interviewed him over the previous weekend, she wrote to John De Pue (with emphasis):Full story
It’s been a month since I published a Sunday reading post, so if you haven’t been following along every week, you’ve missed seven new articles, all of which I’ve added and summarized below. I finished Chapter 2 a few weeks ago after dropping this entire series’ biggest bombshell in ChapterFull story
We left off with federal attorney John De Pue and Jesselyn Radack discussing the situation after they realized an FBI agent had interviewed John Walker Lindh over the previous weekend. On December 10, 2001, at 1:54 pm, De Pue wrote, “We are trying to figure out what actually transpired…It mayFull story
After Jesselyn Radack spent what may have been less than five minutes conducting legal research into the John Walker Lindh case before telling John De Pue that the FBI interview might have to be sealed, he wrote back that same day at 1:54 p.m. From: De Pue, John Sent: 12/10/01Full story
At this point in their email conversation, John De Pue and Jesselyn Radack were both unaware that an FBI agent had interviewed John Walker Lindh over the weekend. It was only after his last email to her that he learned about the interview, called her, and informed her about whatFull story
After Jesselyn Radack advised against the FBI interview with Lindh, she continued to share her advice with John De Pue, which she has subsequently lied about to maintain both her reputation and cover within the whistleblower community. De Pue initially expressed his displeasure over the possibility of the case proceedingFull story
Finally, we are left with the question “Who committed this ethics violation?” which, as a gentle reminder, made no difference in the Lindh case whatsoever. Radack alleges that because her emails prove Lindh was represented before the FBI interview (they don’t), and that she advised a federal attorney that theFull story
Jesselyn Radack’s whistleblower story boils down to whether John Walker Lindh was represented, and whether the FBI committed an ethics violation by interviewing him. Despite what can only be characterized as a hyper bizarre obsession to inject herself into his case, her legal opinion on the matter was just that,Full story
On multiple occasions, Jesselyn Radack has stated in the press that she was responsible for the government’s criminal case against John Walker Lindh crumbling within 24 hours of Newsweek publishing her emails. For example, she told an audience at Harvard University, “I ended up giving my emails, which were unclassified,Full story
We’re now 10 articles into my series Deception In DC, and you can currently find all of them right on Substack. I’m no longer publishing on Patreon because the platform hasn’t been as responsive as I had hoped. However, I am in the process of adding the entire series to my website.Full story