New York News Conference: Corruption fighter Andy Martin seeks special prosecutor in Hillary Clinton email probe

Corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference Thursday, March 5th to ask U. S. Attorney General Eric holder to investigate the Hillary Clinton email scandal. “This scandal is not going away,” Andy says. “Clinton’s behavior in creating a secret email system at her home in New York while she was serving in Washington, DC is emblematic of the kind of president she would be, someone even more lawless than President Barack Obama. Clinton undeniably obstructed implementation of the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”). FOIA disclosure decisions are made by government employees, not by Clinton’s private henchmen. There is an overwhelming inference that she violated national security laws as well as compromising national security by using a crude email system that could be compromised or hacked by foreign intelligence services. I think Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is effectively over. To quote boxer Joe Louis, Clinton can ‘run,’ but she can’t hide. Her behavior as Secretary of State is clearly becoming one of the most self-destructive periods of service of any recent cabinet officer. Democratic Party leaders are about to have a massive panic attack. If she does run, Clinton will be a drag on the entire ticket.” Andy is a nationally recognized expert in cyber law and cyberspace (see www.AndyMartin.com).

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Announcement of New York news conference Thursday, March 5th

Andy Martin asks U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton’s email scandal

Andy says Clinton has almost certainly committed criminal acts and equally certainly has jeopardized national security

Andy says Clinton’s secret email apparatus was not a garden variety “private email address”

 (New York) (March 5, 2015) Corruption fighter and Adjunct Professor of Law Andy Martin will hold a New York City news conference Thursday, March 5th to announce he has asked U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint an independent special counsel to investigate the email operations of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Andy’s letter follows:

National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute

One of America's Leading Corruption Fighters

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Andy Martin, J.D.
Adjunct Professor of Law
Executive Director       

March 5, 2015

Hon. Eric Holder

Attorney General

U.S. Department of Justice

Washington, DC 20530-0001

Re: Appointment of Special Counsel Re Hillary Clinton

Dear General Holder:

I am writing to strongly urge you to appoint an independent special counsel to investigate the email practices of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

There has been a great deal of confusion generated by the media concerning the use of “personal email accounts” by Clinton as well as other federal officials. Many people have “personal” email accounts. In my own case I use AOL because of special considerations. Providers such as google.com and usa.net also offer email addresses. What all of these “personal” email accounts have in common is that they are all hosted by recognized Internet firms.

Corporations and the federal government create their own email clients in order to gain greater internal control of email sending, receiving and storage.

The Clinton email apparatus is the most bizarre and conspiratorial email setup I have ever seen. Because I have participated in government fraud and corruption investigations going back to the 1960’s, my experience with such matters is unusually extensive.

Secretary Clinton went to great lengths to privatize the record of emails during her government service. She wasn’t just using a “personal account.” She created her own Internet operation, with a server apparently located in her home in New York. 

Circumstantial evidence is always probative to show intent. The circumstantial evidence in Secretary Clinton’s case is of someone going to great lengths to create a secret email operation before entering government service. Her overall and ongoing behavior was legally questionable and very probably constituted a series of criminal acts.

Clinton defenders have pointed to recent statutory amendments as exculpating her from criminal liability. But the recent statutory amendments are irrelevant to her actions. Rather, numerous congressional committees were seeking access to Clinton’s records, and there was a public concern as to why none of her emails were available. Now we know why. She had secreted her email operations in her own home, effectively depriving the Department of State of any direct access to or control of those emails without explicit cooperation from Clinton operatives. That is not the way our government works.

So why a special counsel? Because the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) certainly came into contact with Clinton’s peculiar email apparatus. State and DOJ work closely together. Clinton’s email shenanigans were going on for four (4) years. Did no one at DOJ notice? Was no one tipped off? Likewise, there may be more secret government-related emails stored in Clinton Foundation servers. Hillary Clinton’s data breach is the most serous and bizarre since email came into general federal government use.

In addition, since she never had any Department of State email address, some of her email must of necessity have transmitted classified information. Former General David Petraeus recently pleaded guilty to the same kind of misuse of classified information. Clinton clearly violated a federal statute in using her own private personal property as a vehicle to conduct government business.

I urge you to authorize the FBI to take immediate possession of all of Clinton’s email records, servers and internet apparatus and equipment, as well as to examine all Clinton Foundation Internet operations and servers for related information.

To allow Secretary Clinton to operate her own secret government-within-a-government email system, particularly at a time when her affiliated entities were collecting cash from foreign entities, makes a mockery of the federal government and humiliates the DOJ if the DOJ stands mute and does nothing. Given the overwhelming appearance of impropriety on the Secretary's part, and the obvious conflicts of interest in having DOJ investigate a senior cabinet officer, only an independent special counsel can satisfy the appearance of justice.

Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN

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March 5 New York news conference details:

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New Hampshire corruption fighter Andy Martin

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Andy Martin will announce he has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special counsel (special prosecutor) in the Hillary Clinton email scandal/investigation

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909 Third Avenue, New York, public sidewalk in front of FDR Station post office entrance (scaffold), (under the “909” canopy in case of rain)

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Thursday, March 5, 2015 - 1:00 P.M.

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Affirmative action critic Andy Martin says President Obama is the “end of the line” for affirmative action

Contrarian columnist and New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin juxtaposes the chaos in the White House today with the turbulence at the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Andy says that “affirmative action,” supposedly prohibited by the 1964 Act, is undermining the safety and security of the United States and promoting incompetent public officials such as Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama. Andy predicts that our “great national experiment” with affirmative action in electing Obama to the presidency will end badly and scar the United States for a generation. Andy remains committed to civil rights and racial quality but notes that President Obama’s incompetence will leave a legacy that will linger long after Obama is gone.

Andy charges that affirmative action ultimately creates a sense of arrogance and entitlement for its beneficiaries. The negative consequences of affirmative action explain the current disorder in the Obama White House. Eric Holder had it backwards in a recent ABC News interview; he is not the target of racism. Rather, he has been the beneficiary of affirmative action and that has made all the difference in his attitude towards public service. Holder was promoted to a position for which he was manifestly unqualified; Holder is now angry that the public views his performance unfavorably.

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“The Last Days of Affirmative Action; President Obama’s incompetence will undermine racial preferences forever”

(MANCHESTER, NH) (July 17, 2014) 

Dear Fellow American:

This commentary is my reaction to the recent remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder that he and President Barack Obama are the victims of racism. Holder’s remarks force us to confront the unfortunate reality that our civil rights laws have created. We must also confront the results of the “affirmative action” remedies that have bedeviled our society for almost fifty years.

As a candidate for the United States Senate I am committed to equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes. We should not and cannot tolerate diminished standards and lowered expectations of competence in our public officials and employees.

Affirmative action has been a controversial subject since it surfaced in the late 1960’s. Let’s review the history before we see how affirmative action gave us a president who is totally unqualified and completely incapable of discharging the duties of the office. In addition, affirmative action has created a sense of entitlement and ultimately arrogance in both President Obama and some of his appointees that is destroying both his administration and our society.

1. My own personal civil rights background

     I grew up on a college campus in a home that was very hospitable to civil rights. My home town in Connecticut had a generally color-blind environment. In first or second grade, one of my closest friends was Norman Hunter, who lived in the projects. Children, of course, are often color-blind; those of us who grow up in such environments are fortunate indeed.

As a college football player, my roommate Art McCaskill was an African-American. Together we followed the civil rights battles taking place in the south. Art came from Centralia, Illinois where race and class were sharply defined and where resistance to civil rights occasionally became violent. We remained close friends after college.

My own church has been very heavily involved in aid to Africa and helping to encourage the struggle for liberation in South Africa. I remain as committed to civil rights today as I was as a college student. There is no place for bigotry or hatred in our society.

2. The Civil Rights Act of 1964

     The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was one of the greatest pieces of legislation in American history. The law remains so today. Earlier this month we celebrated the signing of the 1964 Act on July 2, 1964. But the 1964 Act was sold to Congress and sold to the American people as a law that prevented and precluded “affirmative action.” Affirmative action is loosely defined as mandatory steps by government and private industry to ignore the qualifications of individuals and to hire and promote on the basis of racial quotas or “goals” for racial and ethnic enhancement.

How did a law that barred affirmative action become a law that mandated affirmative action? The federal courts were importuned to ignore the statutory language and to invent “remedies” that “redressed” genuine problems; unfortunately the courts did so in a way that countermanded the specific intent of Congress.

Adding to the problems created by the growth in demand for “affirmative action” was the fact that our federal courts have historically created a doctrine of “standing” that effectively bars individual from challenging general government actions except in the narrowest of circumstances.

This week legal scholars debated whether Speaker John Boehner can sue President Obama for violating the “faithfully executed” clause of the Constitution. The reason? Boehner may lack “standing” to sue on behalf of Congress and the amorphous “public interest” even though the merits of Boehner’s claims are painfully obvious.

Obama is not “faithfully executing” the law. He is contemptuously and intentionally violating our nation’s statutes. Under the judge-created doctrine of standing, however, no one may have a legal right to challenge Obama’s illegal behavior. (Memo to file if I get to the U. S. Senate: we need to amend the U. S. Constitution to give Congress “standing” to challenge the president in court.)

3. My own efforts at “affirmative assistance”

     After law school I remained in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois for several years. I had the occasional need of an electrician. One of my closest law school friends knew a porter at his fraternity that did electrical repairs; I became friendly with John Mitchell. Like many African-Americans, John M. had been treated harshly by life. He had the survived the hard knocks but was still struggling to succeed. He did not have an electrician’s license. With my encouragement and financial assistance he obtained the license. Eventually I helped him get an electrical contractor’s permit as well. But at each stage John was insistent that he must have the “qualifications” before we approached the next step. He did not want to be promoted without being qualified for his new assignment. He did not want to be the beneficiary of affirmative action.

4. Affirmative action begins to poison the workplace

My own belief is that many African-Americans and other minorities have never wanted individuals to be promoted on the basis of quotas when those persons lack the experience or qualifications to do the job. The reason: failure of an unqualified individual could taint the perception of an entire ethnic group.

The hydraulic pressure created by government-based liberals to undo the damage of centuries of racial deprivation and to do so in the course of a few years unfortunately created during the 1960’s and 70’s an environment where individuals were promoted without being qualified for their new positions. The consequences and public reaction to the problem of unqualified people working in government has been acute resentment by citizens who have had to deal with these unqualified public employees.

Most minorities have succeeded on the basis of their own merit. In business it is very difficult to manage a plant or a product line if you are unqualified, whatever your racial or ethnic background. Likewise, in the military, affirmative action cannot be a factor when lives are at stake. Overall, the 1964 Civil Rights Act has succeeded in opening the world of opportunity to minorities, and that is precisely as it should be.

But affirmative action, which in many instances hardened into “quotas,” has left lingering distaste in the mouths of many Americans. In one of his reelection campaigns Senator Jesse Helms ran a powerful anti-affirmative action commercial that may have turned the tide in his reelection.

The net effect of promoting some unqualified individuals based on quotas has been that the gains of those individuals who succeeded and prospered because they were qualified have been diluted by the promotion of the individuals who were unqualified and only advanced because of affirmative action quotas.

The disastrous consequence of affirmative action in the White house is that beneficiaries such as Obama and Holder have developed an elevated sense of entitlement to special treatment. Entitlement often hardens into arrogance and contempt for ordinary Americans. Both Obama and Holder appear to suffer from this syndrome.

When Holder was interviewed by ABC News earlier this week he claimed that he and Obama were being attacked politically because of the innate racism of American society. Nothing could be further from reality. Americans are opposing Obama because of his policies and politics, not because of his racial background.

5. Obama steps onto the national stage

     One of the challengers of analyzing affirmative action is that the results of that policy take decades to manifest themselves. Although affirmative action began decades ago a presidential candidate who had been the intended beneficiary of affirmative action did not appear until 2008.

     When Senator Barack Obama began to be seriously considered as a presidential candidate I enhanced my research into his family background and personal history. That research is still continuing, a decade later.

Many Americans and especially the mainstream media wanted to promote the election of an African-American president. They overlooked Obama’s deficiencies and lack of experience and presented him to an unsuspecting and vulnerable voting public. People were afraid to oppose Obama because they were afraid of being called racists.

6. The “Incredible Shrinking Obama”

     When Obama entered the White House he claimed that he would be a transformative president. Instead, he has become the “incredible shrinking president.” Obama is the only recent occupant of the White House who has not grown after entering the Oval Office. Usually the challenges of the presidency cause occupants to “grow” to meet those challenges. Obama has done the opposite. He is visibly shrinking before our eyes. Almost every day some Obama policy or promise, such as “lead from behind” or “you can keep your doctor,” is discredited.

7. The Obama presidency is unraveling, both him and his policies

     Today there is a growing public frustration with President Obama and many of his appointees such as Eric Holder. Foreign policy is in a shambles. Our southern border is being invaded by illegal aliens. The economic “recovery” is insipid at best. Tens of millions of Americans are either unemployed or underemployed. Valiant soldiers are being “fired” and dumped on the street at a time when national security risks are increasing and we need a strong military. Even minorities are protesting. Why is Obama neglecting urgent needs in our cities and instead requesting billions in aid for illegal aliens?

Economic hardship is rampant among young people. In a situation similar to that which existed during the Great Depression (1929-1941), when family formation was postponed for over a decade, today young people cannot afford to marry, cannot afford to start a household, cannot afford to purchase and furnish a home. We should not be surprised that there is policy-based hostility to President Obama. What is surprising is that he and Holder respond by crying “racism.” Their sense of arrogance and entitlement is overwhelming and overweening.

8. Obama will leave a legacy of bitterness and hostility

     The incompetence of both Obama and Holder will leave a legacy of bitterness and resentment when they finally exit government. Affirmative action also undermines our confidence in the professional accomplishments of other persons operating under the umbrella of preferential treatment. Is Jeh Johnson competent to serve as a cabinet officer? I have no idea. But many voters will question the qualifications of all of Obama’s minority appointments precisely because he is making those appointments not based solely on merit but rather on the basis of affirmative action.

Obama’s arrogance, and his delusional belief that he and Holder are victims of “racism,” is an insult to the American people who voted for Obama twice. Voters are against Obama not because of his race but because of his socialist agenda and total incompetence (unless you subscribe to the far-fetched theory that Obama wanted to send the whole world into a tailspin and that creating worldwide disaster was indeed his “policy”).

8. America will be “open for business” after Obama leaves

     When Hillary and Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001 they stripped the White House of every article they could carry off, almost down to the floor boards. And, as part of their congenital greed, they sold off pardons to Marc Rich and other Democratic Party contributors. Money, money, money. Since then the Clinton Spin Machine has constantly injected vapors into the American psyche in order to make people “forget” just how bad the Clintons were.

But today the years in which Clinton served in the White House look pretty good by comparison with Obama’s. That is because an out-of-control President Clinton was handcuffed by the American electorate in 1994. Clinton was prevented from implementing his harebrained schemes and Hillary Clinton’s “Hillarycare.”

The Clintons have now become wealthy entertainers. Like stand-up comics or “experts” they traverse the nation collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars for “speeches” which offer very little substance and a huge dollop of nostalgia for the “the years before Obama.”

When Obama leaves the White House he too will probably earn hundreds of millions of dollars and the public will conveniently forget what an incompetent “leader” Obama was while in office. The United States of America will open for business the day after Obama is finished. We will start undoing and repairing the damage that eight years of Obama inflicted on the American people. Obama’s successor will inherit the mess Obama leaves behind.

Every American citizen will have been diminished by the first and very likely last affirmative action president. Affirmative action will “die” with Obama. The great national experience in “enhanced incompetence” will have ended with him. Affirmative action? R.I.P.

The bottom line: we need to think deeply about why Obama is destroying America, and why he seeks refuge in delusional claims of racism. Obama’s and Holder’s senses of entitlement and arrogance, and their contempt for our history and our Constitution, pose a danger to every American.

Faithfully,

Andy Martin

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Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

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New Hampshire U.S. Senate candidate Andy Martin stands by his efforts to aid the son of Hollywood star Michael Douglas

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin is continuing his efforts to aid the imprisoned son of Hollywood star Michael Douglas despite the unwillingness of others to support Cameron Douglas. “There has been some controversy about how best to help Cameron,” Andy says. “I cannot speak for others but I believe there is no conflict between the belief that systemic abuses must be addressed, and my own efforts to use a single prisoner to advance a compassionate agenda for public policy. Michael Douglas has been trying unsuccessfully for years to obtain relief; therefore, Michael’s past efforts have not been successful. A new approach is necessary and I am experienced in focusing attention on failures in public policy. My prior activism on behalf of human rights abuses has drawn world attention.”

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New Hampshire Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin’s efforts to help the son of Hollywood star Michael Douglas draw national attention

Andy says that he will “stay the course” in assisting Cameron Douglas

Andy has a long record of successful human rights activism

(Manchester, NH) (October 11, 2013) New Hampshire Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin’s efforts to help Cameron Douglas, the imprisoned son of Hollywood star Michael Douglas, are drawing national attention (please see link below).

Andy’s efforts were reported in the New York Post’s Page Six, the most widely read celebrity column in the world.

Andy’s past efforts to come to the assistance of victims of human rights abuses have drawn worldwide attention, and scowls from federal prosecutors. After the death of Princess Diana, Andy’s human rights petition to the French president helped free imprisoned journalists.

“In the 1980’s I tangled with federal prosecutors, who attacked me for defending the right of an accused drug dealer not to be held incommunicado,” Andy says. “I won. Carlos Lehder was released from incommunicado custody. It is the role of a public interest lawyer to defend unpopular causes and unpopular clients. I was very amused when I received a ‘thank you’ note from Mr. Lehder. I obviously did not share his views but I defended his right to due process of law.

“In the 1990’s I came to the assistance of imprisoned French journalists who were being held in the aftermath of Princess Diana’s tragic death. My Human Rights Petition on behalf of media freedom helped convince the French government to release the journalists.

“The Republican Party was founded to end one of the greatest human rights abuses of all time, slavery. I am proud to continue in the finest traditions of the Republican Party’s human rights activism.

“More recently I have come to the defense of a former leader of The Ukraine. She is no Sunday school teacher, but she has been abused by her government. I am delighted to see she will soon be released.

“My Senator, Paul H. Douglas, was a friend of Clarence Darrow. I was schooled in Darrow’s tradition. Coming to the defense of unpopular clients and unpopular causes does not scare me.

“The federal government is inflicting unnecessary pain not only on Cameron Douglas but also on his parents. Given that Michael has had a serious illness, for the Bureau of Prisons to inflict distress on him by denying him access to his son is extremely unfortunate.

“Others may be reluctant to step forward. I am not. I can assure the people of New Hampshire that if they entrust me with the responsibility of being their U. S. Senator they will send a fearless advocate to Washington. I have lived my own life in the ‘Live free or die’ tradition. As a Christian, seeking to fight injustice is a theological imperative.

“Despite what others may do, I will continue my efforts to see that Cameron’s parents can have regular access to their son, and that while Cameron is punished, such punishment is not ‘cruel, unusual’ or disproportionate. If necessary, I am prepared to go to court to obtain access to Cameron Douglas. But I do not think the Bureau of Prisons will persist with its present policy of inflicting gratuitous punishment on Cameron. I am confident that reason will prevail.”

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ujntsman wasd reelected in November, 2008. A few monrths later he resigned to serve
his president,” Barack Obama. SDo whyh was it so terrible that Palin resigned and Hutsman served evenless of his secondterm? Can I say “double standard” again.

What os this show us? Whetyher thessue s resigfnaitonsor religion,th emedia shamlessly create double standards tgo favr theiiberal medioa pets (fulldisclosure; I am ot aliberalmedia pet).

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Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

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New Hampshire U.S. Senate candidate Andy Martin asks to visit jailed son of Hollywood star Michael Douglas

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a telephone news conference today, October 8th to announce Andy has asked U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder for permission for Andy to visit the jailed son of Hollywood star Michael Douglas.

“I sympathize with the parents of Cameron Douglas,” Andy says. “Federal law is unduly harsh in dealing with nonviolent drug offenders. Michael Douglas’ son is an addict, and he has also been a seller. But that doesn’t mean he should be held under barbaric conditions. U.S. Senators have a vital role to play in reforming our federal drug laws. When the son of a celebrity is treated excruciatingly badly, that abuse is a basis to focus attention on our broken prison system. I have asked the Attorney General for permission to visit Douglas’ son.”

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ATTENTION NATIONAL AND NEW HAMPSHIRE DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

New Hampshire Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin comes to the defense of Hollywood star Michael Douglas

Andy says that if the facts are as Douglas states them, Douglas’ son is being treated inhumanely in federal custody

Andy says Barack Obama and Eric Holder are unnecessarily continuing “medieval” conditions for incarcerated drug felons

Andy is a prison reformer in the style of Kentucky U. S. Senator Rand Paul

(Manchester, NH) (October 8, 2013) New Hampshire Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a telephone news conference today, October 8th to announce that he is asking U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder for permission to visit the incarcerated son of Hollywood star Michael Douglas (please see link below).

Andy’s latter to the Attorney General is self-explanatory and follows:

Andy Martin

Republican for U.S. Senator

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October 8, 2013

The Hon. Eric Holder

Attorney General

Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20530-0001

Re: Bureau of Prisons inmate Cameron Douglas,

     FCI Cumberland, Maryland

Dear General Holder:

I have read the published stories about the harsh treatment being inflicted on the son of movie actor Michael Douglas.

Cameron has undeniably violated federal laws and he is subject to appropriate punishment.

But if the published reports are true, Cameron is being banned from having family visits, and he is being held in a form of solitary confinement or administrative segregation. Rather than helping Mr. Douglas to recover from his addiction, the BOP may actually be exacerbating Cameron’s condition.

There are five reasons for my intervention and why I am writing to you today:

     1. First, I do not see why a nonviolent drug offender, even one who has reoffended in custody, should be subjected to conditions that involve extended periods of segregation or solitary confinement.

     2. Second, I fail to see why the punishment of Cameron should extend to imposing unduly harsh conditions on visits by his parents. It is beyond dispute that maintaining family ties is an important rehabilitative goal. Unless there is some evidence that Cameron’s parents are smuggling drugs to him, or otherwise violating institutional policy, I believe the Douglas family’s access to their son should be reinstated forthwith.

By all means punish Cameron in a sensible manner; but by no means inflict unnecessary pain on his parents.

     3. Third, as a conservative Republican I am concerned by conditions in our federal penal system. I would have thought the Obama Administration would have developed a more enlightened penological policy than segregation and alienation. It is ironic that some conservative Republicans have been leading the way in eliminating disparities in sentencing. I also support equalizing all forms of punishment within prison walls.

     4. As a Christian, I am reminded every day of Jesus’ admonishment that we must always remember prisoners and captives and ensure that their treatment meets humane standards. I know that many religious organizations play a vital role in our prison facilities and I am delighted that this is an area were Christian organizations are often leaders. The role of the late Charles Colson should always be remembered.

     5. Finally, I would like to meet with Cameron Douglas at FCI Cumberland and discuss with him the conditions of his confinement. I would ask that you make the arrangements for me to do so.

I have been fortunate in life. I don’t smoke or drink to excess. The strongest “drug” I ingest is an occasional cooler of iced coffee. But rather than insulating myself from the reality of what drug addiction can mean to a person, and to that person’s family, I am very concerned that the United States strive to maintain a humane incarceration program as part of our overall national policy of discouraging drug use and abuse.

As an urban educator I received firsthand knowledge and experience with the drug crisis during the 1980’s. While we no longer have a “crack epidemic,” drug abuse and drug use continue to be major problems in our society.

A growing toleration for “gateway” drugs may or may not be creating long-term risks for our society. As a senator I would focus on the impact that drug use has on our national condition.

I would like to encourage you to review the conditions of Cameron Douglas’ confinement, and also review your treatment of prisoners in general. While Cameron is a “celebrity” prisoner in the sense that he has prominent parents, his incarceration helps to shed light on how other similarly situated prisoners are treated. Unless Cameron is being singed out for discriminatory treatment, his conditions of confinement signal a warning that the BOP is not dealing with our modern drug crisis in a way that leads to rehabilitation and recovery.

Please get back to me at your earliest convenience as to when I may visit Cameron, and what additional feedback you have to satisfy my concerns about the overall conditions of confinement in federal prisons.

Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN

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October 8th New Hampshire [TELEPHONE] News Conference Details:

WHO:     

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin

WHAT:    

Andy Martin asks U. S. Attorney General for permission to visit incarcerated son of Hollywood star Michael Douglas

WHERE:

Telephone news conference:

Dial-in Number: 1-800-466-8543

Conference Code: 510518

           

WHEN:

Tuesday, October 8th - 5:00 P.M.

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