Yesterday, I started telling the story of Dr. Massoud Amin – a man who came to the US as a teenager with his parents after the Iranian Revolution, became a citizen, and rose to the highest levels not only of academia, but of national security, as one of the nation’s foremost experts in cybersecurity.<\/p>\n
And then, in the middle of a rancorous divorce with more than a whiff of academic backstabbing mixed in, an overzealous prosecutor turned a paperwork discrepancy in a civil divorce filing into, literally, a criminal case.<\/p>\n
Pursuant to that case, the prosecutor and the police searched Dr. Amin’s house, and confiscated Dr. Amin’s firearm collection,\u00a0 planting the story of “The Iranian professor who collected a bunch of guns and swindled his soon-to-be-ex” – simultaneously defaming him to the left (“Serves the gun nut right!”) and the less-bright parts of the right (“Probably a terrorist!”).<\/p>\n
The trial?\u00a0 It was a comedy of errors – but not remotely funny.\u00a0 \u00a0All exculpatory evidence was suppressed, and that was just the beginning.\u00a0 \u00a0The ending?\u00a0 \u00a0A conviction – aided\u00a0 by bizarre courtroom antics and some sketchy lawyering on both sides.<\/p>\n
The prosecution is asking for a ten year prison sentence for a conviction that normally carries a years’ suspended sentence and probation for a first-time offender – which Dr. Amin, who held a top-secret security clearance until the conviction, most assuredly was.<\/p>\n
Why so much irregularity in what started as a typical ugly American divorce?<\/p>\n
We’ll be talking with Dr. Massoud about that this Saturday on my show.\u00a0 \u00a0Tune in, and call in if you havre questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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