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Jesselyn Radack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jesselyn Radack is a former U.S. Department of Justice ethics adviser who argued that John Walker Lindh (the "American Taliban") could not be interrogated since he was represented by a lawyer. Radack was able to reconstruct much of her work, and she subsequently informed her supervisor that her department had not complied with the court order. Radack is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jesselyn_Radack   (346 words)

102G6J   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Radack's younger brother Jeremy remembers that his mother told the three kids, "'If you don't tell these people you're happy here, they're going to take you away from me.'" He kept quiet, but his older sister was incredulous, if not incensed, that the guy interviewed them in front of their mom. Radack hadn't done so herself, but she and three other women had been working with the administration to develop a sexual-misconduct disciplinary policy, and when the rape list hit, the so-called Committee of Four were thrust into a public role. Radack's resignation." The firm subsequently asked Radack to swear in an affidavit that she was not Newsweek's source and told her to sign it or resign. law.gsu.edu /dyarn/spring04/law6020/john_walker_lindh_and_Radack.htm   (6385 words)

The Declaration Online Radack spoke with her superiors and informed De Pue that such a "pre-indictment, custodial overt interview" was "not authorized by law." De Pue responded that the interrogation had already taken place, Radack subsequently warned him that the obtained confession might not be admissible during a criminal prosecution, and the pair exchanged some dozen emails. Radack, who was forced by Hawkins partner Cullen MacDonald to either sign an affidavit saying she didn’t leak the emails or resign, has been out of a job since November of 2002, and is currently sitting at home, coping with multiple sclerosis, the recent birth of her third child, and $30,000 in unpaid legal bills. Jesselyn Radack may, no matter what you think of her, be beyond the reach of help, but perhaps there is a lesson that can be learned from her experiences, and a chance to improve the picture for those who care passionately enough about their government to hold it to the highest possible standards. www.the-declaration.com /index.php?issuedate=2004-02-19&showarticle=800   (1371 words)

Anatomy of a Whistleblower Radack's home detention of sorts began in November 2002, when she was effectively fired from Hawkins, Delafield & Wood, the Washington law firm where she'd been practicing housing law for just seven months after being forced out of the Justice Department's ethics unit in April 2002. Radack says it appeared to her as if she was caught in the middle of an effort by someone at DOJ to destroy evidence in violation of a federal court order. Radack decided that she didn't want to live with her mother anymore, but she was adamant about graduating from the public high school that had become her re- fuge. www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2004/01/12_404.html   (4009 words)

BAM: The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Features, March/April 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Jesselyn Radack ’92 was a triple concentrator at Brown, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a graduate of Yale Law School, and a well-respected lawyer in the U.S. Department of Justice. Radack was in a position to know that this was not entirely true, and she was outraged at the government’s claim. Radack suspected the DOJ was punishing her for pressing the issue of the missing e-mails, first by pushing her out of her government job and then by sullying her name at her new firm. www.brownalumnimagazine.com /storyDetail.cfm?ID=2308   (3941 words)

NM&L (Summer 2003): Justice and the whistleblower Jesselyn Radack was swept into the John Walker Lindh case in a way that changed her life dramatically. Radack's story began in December 2001 when, while working as an attorney in the Professional Responsibility Advisory Office, she received an e-mail message from John De Pue, a counterterrorism prosecutor who was working on the Lindh case. Radack, meanwhile, continues to deal with the looming criminal investigation and a dispute over how she was removed from her job with the law firm. www.rcfp.org /news/mag/27-3/cov-justicea.html   (1931 words)

[No title] Radack, a former Justice Department lawyer, recently filed a lawsuit claiming she was forced out of her job after questioning the legality of the government's interrogation of John Walker Lindh. Radack was then effectively fired from a subsequent job with a private D.C. law firm, after her whistleblowing at DOJ became known to the partners there. Radack's accusations regarding the possible concealment of documents and retaliation against her were recently referred to the department's Office of Professional Responsibility for an investigation." Better late than never; the investigation of leaks of Justice's concealment has been underway for a few months now. www.rcfp.org /behindthehomefront/search.php?srch=jesselyn+radack   (1268 words)

BAM: Mail Room, Mailroom, May/June 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) At the heart of the matter is Radack’s decision to remove confidential internal documents from the files of the DOJ when she terminated her employment and to disclose those documents to a member of the print media. Radack thus invoked the protections of the law when she disclosed the malfeasance to her supervisors as well as to the press. Like me, Radack can probably establish a prima facie case of reprisal, but she, like me, will be plagued by the legal immunity of supervisors: we were there, in the eyes of the law, to serve the supervisor, not the taxpayers, even though our swearing-in was to the taxpayers, not to our supervisors. www.brownalumnimagazine.com /mailroom.cfm?Issue=58   (4883 words)

Law.com: The Trials of Jesselyn Radack When Radack argued that her e-mails should be disclosed to the judge hearing Lindh's case, she and her bosses ended up at odds. As the questioning continued, Radack says she felt Powell became antagonistic, trying to pin her down on the specifics of her contacts with the reporter. Assuming hypothetically that Radack had supplied the e-mails, Robinson argued that under the D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct, government lawyers are allowed to blow the whistle on misconduct by their client. www.law.com /jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1056139907383   (997 words)

Law.com - The Trials of Jesselyn Radack Radack cut the call short, and instead of speaking with Powell further, she hired Frederick Robinson, a partner in the Washington office of Fulbright & Jaworski. On Oct. 1 he wrote to inform Radack's lawyer, Robinson, that on the basis of the phone call and fax records, the firm's management committee was "inclined to ask for Mrs. Radack's lawyer, Robinson, argued that the firm was confusing the duties of a private lawyer versus a government lawyer. www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1056139907383   (1005 words)

OMB Watch - Terrorism Case Whistleblower Sues Justice Department Radack's e-mail correspondences addressing her legal concerns were never turned over to a criminal court, despite a court order that all internal documents be submitted. Radack later released her e-mail memorandums to Newsweek magazine, expecting to be protected by a federal whistleblower statute that protects individuals reporting government impropriety. Radack claims no private law firm will hire her until the matter is resolved. www.ombwatch.org /article/articleview/2521/1/249?TopicID=1   (376 words)

Watching Justice | Issues | Whistleblower Cases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Jesselyn Radack was an attorney-advisor in the Department of Justice's Professional Responsibility Advisory Office (PRAO) when John Walker Lindh was arrested in Afghanistan in December of 2001. Radack left the Department after she received an unscheduled "performance review" that was scathing in its content, despite previously receiving only positive feedback and even a performance bonus for her work at PRAO. Jesselyn Radack, a lawyer formerly with the ethics office, has alleged that she was retaliated against for advising that the FBI could not interview Lindh without his counsel. www.watchingjustice.org /issues/subIssue.php?docId=415   (884 words)

Lake County Free Press D.C. attorney Jesselyn Radack was once employed in the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility (an oxymoron these days, if you ask me, but that is another article). As Radack begin to realize that she was a potential prosecution target, she hired an attorney to defend her. Radack's professional and personal lives are in limbo because Radack dared to mess with one of John Ashcroft's cases. www.pacificsites.com /~lakenews/ashcroftwhistel.shtml   (717 words)

Justice Dept. Charged w Misconduct in Chertoff 's Prosecution of John Walker Lindh : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) 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. AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Jesselyn Radack, who worked for the Justice Department and said she ultimately lost her job for raising questions of ethics in the questioning of John Walker Lindh, charges directly going to Michael Chertoff, the new nominee to head the Department of Homeland security. JESSELYN RADACK: Well, my response is that in his initial testimony, Chertoff denied that the Professional Responsibility Advisory Office ever took a position on the Lindh interrogation, despite the fact that his denial was contradicted by the public record, specifically articles in Newsweek magazine and in The New Yorker. sf.indymedia.org /news/2005/01/1708984.php   (2018 words)

Index We speak with former Justice Department attorney, Jesselyn Radack, who charges that department officials under Michael Chertoff improperly questioned John Waker Lindh and that her memos raising ethical concerns about his interrogation were purged and not turned over to a criminal court. Jesselyn Radack was an attorney in the Justice Department's Professional Responsibility Advisory Office during the Lindh case. As a result, Radack was pushed out of her job at the Justice Department, fired from her next job, put under criminal investigation and put on the no-fly list. www.democracynow.org /print.pl?sid=05/01/13/1455248   (2042 words)

WHISTLEBLOWING: MY STORY Note: I came across the legal problems of Jesselyn Radack last year, but was unable to reach her or her attorney. Radack attempted to prevent the Justice Department’s cover up of unethical conduct — Lindh was denied a lawyer even though his father had hired one and the government knew it. Radack is a Brown `92 graduate with a triple concentration, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a graduate of Yale Law School. members.cox.net /thepicklebarrel/pickle9/radack_lindh.htm   (999 words)

Unfiltered Talking Points - Air America Place Message Boards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Radack was an ethics lawyer r at the Department of Justice during the John Walker Lindh case. Radack not only has emails and hard evidence of warning Chertoff, but the Bush Administration has retaliated against her by forcing her out of two jobs and placing her on the no-fly list. The Jesselyn Radack Legal Defense Fund has been established to help Jesselyn Radack pay for legal fees and related expenses resulting from actions taken by USDOJ and her former employer after Ms. www.airamericaplace.com /boards/index.php?showtopic=6466&view=getlastpost   (309 words)

CJR Voices The article described how a former attorney at the Department of Justice named Jesselyn Radack was locked in a dispute with her new employer for failing to cooperate with a government investigation into e-mails she supposedly leaked to Michael Isikoff, a Newsweek reporter, after she left the department. When Radack refused to cooperate with investigators, her new employer, the New York-based law firm Hawkins, Delafield and Wood, fired her. The e-mail cited conflicting statements Radack had given to government investigators about her contacts with Isikoff, as well as a detailed log of their telephone calls. www.cjr.org /issues/2004/2/mccollam-track.asp   (817 words)

Jesselyn Radack: From Goverment Ethics Attorney to Whistleblower - TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime Jesselyn Radack: From Goverment Ethics Attorney to Whistleblower Radack was a Government Ethics Advisor at the Department of Justice during the John Walker Lindh case. Radack, a highly qualified employee who received a merit bonus the previous year, received a "blistering" performance evaluation which severely questioned her legal judgment, and she was advised to get a new job. www.talkleft.com /new_archives/003151.html   (545 words)

MichaelMoore.com : Chertoff Apt to Face Questions on Ethics; Stance on Lindh Interrogation at Issue When Jesselyn Radack, a lawyer in the ethics office, gave advice that ran contrary to Chertoff's wishes, she says, her promising career foundered. A White House spokesman said yesterday that Radack was in a different department and Chertoff had no authority over her. Radack discovered, she says, that a number of her crucial e-mails were missing from government's file in the Lindh case and raised this with superiors. www.michaelmoore.com /words/index.php?id=1272   (657 words)

Watching Justice | What's New | Chertoff Gave Conflicting Answers on Lindh Interrogation Radack, after consulting a senior attorney in her department, responded, “We don't think you can have the FBI question [Lindh]. Radack said that in the course of that case, she discovered that a number of her relevant e-mails were missing from the government's file in the Lindh case and she raised this with superiors. Radack alleges that her activities, which ran contrary to Chertoff's wishes, led to retaliation against her, including a poor evaluation less than a year after getting a merit raise and a bonus. www.watchingjustice.org /whatsnew/whatsnew.php?docId=556   (490 words)

102G6J   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) On December 7th, 2001, Jesselyn Radack was the duty lawyer in what's essentially the Justice Department's ethics office. BRUCE FEIN (Lawyer for Jesselyn Radack): She was stunned. Several months later, according to court papers, Radack heard a news report that said the Justice Department had never held the position that John Walker Lindh was entitled to counsel. law.gsu.edu /dyarn/spring04/law6020/NPR_Story_Radack.htm   (803 words)

Ronald Powell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Ronald Powell is a United States special agent for the Justice Department 's Office of Inspector General occupied with affair of former U.S. Department of Justice ethics adviser Jesselyn Radack. Radack argued that the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh had the right to a lawyer. Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned Lindh alone Radack was fired. www.freeglossary.com /Ronald_Powell   (203 words)

Grayson & Kubli, P.C. - Jesselyn Radack, Esq. Radack joined GRAYSON and KUBLI, P.C. in May 2006 after spending seven years at the U.S. Department of Justice, which hired her under the Attorney General's Honor Program. While at the Justice Department, she practiced constitutional tort litigation for four years and served as a legal advisor in the Professional Responsibility Advisory Office for three. Radack received her Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School in 1995 and her B.A. from Brown University in 1992. www.graysonlaw.net /j_radack.htm   (153 words)

PATRIOTWATCH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." Justice William O. Douglas Petition by Whistleblower Jesselyn Radack to Protect Civil Liberties and Civil Rights in the War Against Terrorism Radack that calls on the U.S. Government not to trample civil rights and liberties in responding to terrorism. www.patriotwatch.org /2003/07/petition-by-whistleblower-jesselyn.html   (165 words)

The Legal Reader: "The Trials of Jesselyn Radack" Sitting in her well-appointed living room in a leafy northwest Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Jesselyn Radack seems an unlikely candidate for martyrdom in the war on terror. For three years the Yale Law School graduate and self-described soccer mom made... I guess it just goes to show that it can be unprofitable to challenge demagogues like John Ashcroft. www.legalreader.com /archives/001116.html   (532 words)

CU Law School - JESSELYN RADACK, Tortured Legal Ethics: The Role of the Government Advisor in the War on Terrorism. Jesselyn Radack is an Adjunct Professor of professional responsibility at the American University Washington College of Law. He has published several law review articles and book reviews, including publications in the Yale Law and Policy Review and the Cornell International Law Journal. www.colorado.edu /law/lawreview/issues/authors/v77-1.htm   (697 words)

Cassel: Civil Liberties Watch - April 15, 2004 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Last October, when I flew to a family function in New Mexico, I was pulled aside for a more extensive search than the usual stroll through the metal detector. They fail to realize that it makes us all less safe to waste so much time and so limited resources on vengeful partisan practices rather than going after people with real terrorist ties. Jesselyn is a former Department of Justice employee and mother of three young children. babelogue.citypages.com:8080 /ecassel/2004/04/15   (1258 words)

Jesselyn Radack in TutorGig Encyclopedia http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1104 Whistleblowing in Washington by Jesselyn Radack in Reform Judaism Magzine Search for Jesselyn Radack in Usenet Discussion Groups Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. www.tutorgig.com /ed/Jesselyn_Radack   (358 words)

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