Saturday, March 15, 2008
Welcome to my first podcast. In this short presentation I speak with attorney David Strachman. Attorney Strachman has been in the news the past few years through his representation of terror victims in civil suits against terror entities like the PLO, Palestinian Authority, Hamas and the Islamic Republic of Iran. He's won judgments on behalf of the victims in all of them. He's prevented Persian artifacts from being returned to Iran, gone after the Palestine Investment Fund and most recently got a favorable decision from the US Government when it declined to get involved in the civil legal process.
A note on the recording itself: As I note in the podcast, I didn't have the optimal equipment for a phone interview, so I apologize in advance for the quality of some of the audio. Bear with me on that. Readers can guide me as to whether they like podcasts like this, or prefer to read interviews as I have done in the past. Both have relative merits.
[Edit: If you have trouble with the built-in player (the audio sounds sped up or somesuch), or if you just want to listen in your own player, please download the MP3.]
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This is excellent! I really enjoyed it.
Thanks!
Enjoyed it. Good luck to David Strachman and his clients.
Wonderful job, great guest, very relaxed but penetrating style of questioning- all in all a terrific job.
OK, so the production values were not the best...
Actually it reminds one of the old days when all remote transmission sounded like this.
Very nice interview. Well done. I look forward to more of these interviews.
But I wonder what the point is of winning cases where you don't really have much chance of collecting. I guess it has two advantages, aside from any money that does get collected: 1) symbolic, in that there's a court that will find the PA, etc. are actually guilty of a terrorist act, and 2) Strachman has neatly demonstrated how sleazy and undependable these Palestinian organizations really are. Now even the American courts will have had a direct experience of that. It's too bad that these court decisions and the problems collecting afterwards aren't covered by the press. But, of course, they wouldn't be.
Thanks guys.
It is more than symbolic (though the symbolism is good), it's just a matter of tracking down the money, and since it's hidden all over the place and the other side isn't cooperating it's tough. It's possible, though. And we know where those Persian artifacts are, for instance.
"Sleazy and undependable" sounds like how I'd describe the American attorneys who would take PLO money to defend them. I predict a post in that direction in the future.