Indict the New York Times

A Child's Guide to Treason

Henry Mark Holzer here lays down the legal justification for indicting the New York Times under terms of the Espionage Act. These closing paragraphs describe why it's necessary. ''Several years ago Erika Holzer and I wrote a book entitled “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam, which proved that her conduct in Hanoi made her indictable for, and convictable of, treason.  We discovered that she was not indicted because of a political failure of will by the Nixon administration.  To summarize a chapter of our book, suffice to say that the government was afraid to indict a popular anti-war actress who had the support of the radical left.  Even today, three decades after Fonda’s trip to North Vietnam and three years after the publication of our book, we receive countless letters lamenting that Hanoi Jane was never punished for her conduct. ''We tell them that it’s too late, that any possibility of seeing justice done for Fonda’s traitorous conduct is long gone.  That is all the more reason why those of us who remember the Fonda episode, and who understand the nature and importance of today’s War on Terror, should not rest until the government calls to account The New York Times—in a court of law, with an indictment and hopefully a conviction, under the Espionage Act.'' Indict the New York Times  By Henry Mark Holzer