The Posner File

My Washington Times op-ed about my client, Mahmood Karzai

2010-10-04T23:54:00.002-04:00

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/1/the-witch-hunt-of-mahmood-karzai/?page=2

Foreign Affairs on my Karzai representation....

2010-07-06T21:02:00.000-04:00

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/07/06/what_the_heck_is_gerald_posner_doing_in_afghanistan

my letter today in the WSJ

2010-07-01T09:28:00.000-04:00

It is a shame that the Journal spent two days interviewing my client Mahmood Karzai yet chose to still include him as one of two named Afghans believed by anonymous U.S. officials to have transferred millions in cash out of Afghanistan ("Corruption Suspected in Airlift of Billions in Cash From Kabul," page one, June 28).

Mr. Karzai has never transferred large amounts of cash out of the country. He is willing to take a lie-detector test on this matter. This unproven and false accusation hurts him since he is the only Afghan businessman I'm aware of who is investing his money into the country—in large real-estate projects in Kandahar and the nation's infrastructure, such as its only cement plant— rather than taking money out as many others have done. No Afghan businessman or politician or public figure is more transparent than Mahmood Karzai.

I suggest that the U.S. anticorruption investigators follow the suggestion of Mr. Karzai, as quoted in your article: "Let's find out who is taking it." Mahmood Karzai isn't one of those "taking it."

Gerald Posner
Attorney at Law
Miami

"Getting Lucky in Times Square"

2010-05-04T23:17:00.000-04:00

Good reminder of how many just missed terror plots in the last year - and very good Shahzad was a bungling bomber.

The loners, not affiliated with groups, are the ones that almost always slip through the counterrorism net. Remember McVeigh?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703866704575224384004044738.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion

Clip from "Roads to Memphis"

2010-05-03T22:19:00.000-04:00

The clip of part of my interview for the PBS show, Roads to Memphis, about James Earl Ray and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dZTOUeZNYk

Catch the PBS show about James Earl Ray and the MLK assassination tonight

2010-05-03T09:31:00.000-04:00

Tonight on PBS at 9 pm. "Roads to Memphis: Two Paths, One Ending." Based on a wonderful new book, "Hellbound on His Trail," by Hampton Sides. I'm in this documentary but think it's some interviews from 12 years ago.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/memphis/

More on CIA cover-up of Abu Zubaydah interrogations

2010-04-18T23:26:00.000-04:00

According to an internal CIA document released April 15, 2010, former CIA director Porter Goss personally approved the decision by one of his top aides to destroy dozens of videotapes of the brutal interrogation of two detainees, one of them Abu Zubaydah. Read chapter 19 in my book, Why America Slept, and you'll get an idea of why the Zubaydah tapes were destroyed. And the CIA won't even acknowledge existence of any tapes for the early days about which I wrote in the book. This is a cover-up involving the death of three Saudi Royals, the Air Marshall of the Pakistani Air Force, and questions about what some of our supposed allies might have known about the pending 9/11 attacks.

RIP Darling, beloved mom xoxox

2010-02-20T15:07:00.001-05:00

Out of action on the journo front

2010-02-17T22:41:00.000-05:00

for a couple of weeks, dealing with a family health crisis re my mom in SF. Back soon....