-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: Ian Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Committee to Protect Journalists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 8:21 PM Subject: U.S. Journalists to Jail Dear Committee to Protect Journalists (www.cpj.org), I want to inform you about two American journalists and authors that are heading to jail as a result of their efforts to make their research findings known. Even as the U.S. Government decries the jailing of journalists in Serbia, jail cells in the U.S. are being readied to silence American journalists. DAVID HOFFMAN, editor of the Haight Ashbury Free Press (http://webcom.com/haight), is an American journalist facing jail time. Hoffman's crime was sending a copy of his book to a grand jury that was convened to investigate the Oklahoma City bombing. Hoffman's book alleges a government cover-up of a larger conspiracy in the OKC bombing. His book can be read on-line here: http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt.htm JAMES SANDERS is another American journalist that government prosecutors want to put in jail. Sanders was convicted for having accepted physical evidence from the Flight 800 crash that was given to him by a TWA pilot who was a member of the investigation. Sanders had that evidence tested and published the findings in his book and several newspaper reports, which claim that a Navy missile struck Flight 800. The effort by the U.S. Justice Department to track down Sanders's source by reading his email without a warrant was said to be a threat to journalism by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The law that Sanders was convicted of violating was written to stop souvenir hunters from taking debris from a crash site. Sanders didn't try to remove the evidence from the public, in fact, only he made it available to the public, giving us a second opinion about the cause of the crash. For that most heinous "crime," Sanders now faces up to 10 years in prison. The TWA pilot, Terrell Stacey, was the person who removed the evidence, yet Sanders, who wrote about the evidence, was the primary target of the Federal prosecution. Captain Stacey was even given time off for testifying against Sanders. The motive of the Federal prosecution was therefore to punish the person who wrote about the evidence, not the person who may have broken the law by taking it. Clearly, the goal was to punish the act of speech. I hope that all organizations dedicated to freedom of speech like the Committee to Protect Journalists will speak out against jailing these journalists. The ability to investigate one's government free from fear of persecution is a defining feature of a free society, as it should be for America too. James Sanders Database ========================================== http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/082198n1.htm http://members.wbs.net/homepages/r/o/b/robertd202/sanders.PDF http://www.accessone.com/~rivero/CRASH/TWA/sanderscase.html http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=1999/4/14/101749 http://www.angelfire.com/hi/TWA800/#sanders http://members.aol.com/bardonia/sanders.htm The residue Sanders tested was NOT glue, contrary to FBI/media claims: http://www.twa800.com/affidavi.htm http://www.accessone.com/~rivero/CRASH/TWA/BASS/bassett.html http://www.multipull.com/twacasefile/residues.html Seat cushions with the residue disappeared from the hanger: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/2639/no_res.html To contribute to James Sanders's legal defense fund, make checks payable to "United States Justice Foundation." Mail to: James Sanders, P.O. 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