This speech was given at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s June 2008 conference, “Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties” held in Reston, Virginia.
Jesselyn Radack is a former U.S. Department of Justice ethics adviser who came to prominence as a whistleblower after she objected to the government’s treatment of John Walker Lindh (the “American Taliban” captured during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan), having argued that, since a lawyer had been retained to represent him, he could not be interrogated without that lawyer present.
Radack is a graduate with honors of Brown University and Yale Law School. After graduation she was selected for the Attorney’s General Honors Program and briefly worked for the Department of Justice. She now works in private practice.