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Letter 3 to Alan Ryan Jr., 17Nov2011
Re: John Demjanjuk
From: [email protected]
Date: 17 November 2011 11:32:23 AM PST (CA)
To: [email protected]
Dear Professor Ryan:
While awaiting your reply to my email, I noticed that your description
of OSI involvement in the John Demjanjuk prosecution clashes somewhat
with what Judge Gilbert Merritt told reporter Yossi Melman writing for
Ha'aretz:
"Today we
know," says Merritt, "that they -- the OSI, the prosecution in the case
and the State Department -- lied through their teeth. Even
then they knew without a doubt that Demjanjuk was not Ivan the
Terrible, but they hid the information from us. I am sorry
that I did not have the information at the time. If I did, we
would never have ruled in favor of his extradition to
Israel." Merritt claims that what happened in his courtroom
was "nothing short of a witch hunt. In retrospect, it reminds
me of the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts 300 years ago.
The prosecution, counseled by the OSI, presented documents and
witnesses whose testimony was based on emotions and hysteria, but not
hard evidence. To my regret, we believed them. This
instance is a prime example of how justice can be distorted."
Yossi Melman, Who Lied
About Demjanjuk?, Ha'aretz, 14-Nov-1997
A man who prides himself on never
hunkering down in silence will surely have something to say about this
discrepancy?
Sincerely yours,
Lubomyr Prytulak