Arrest Janet Reno
By Alec Rawls © 1998

Janet Reno, as District Attorney for Dade County Florida, rose to prominence by riding the wave of the hysteria about child molestation caused by "child abuse experts" who planted suggestions to children that they had been molested. These "experts" interviewed and re-interviewed and re-interviewed children, encouraging responses that moved in the directions of the suggested molestation and cutting off all other lines of response. Witch hunts like this, which swept the nation in the 80's, are a close cousin to the use of hypnosis on adults to induce images of childhood molestation and then label them "recovered memories."

As the court system has gotten farther into these cases, the manifest manipulation, unreliability and impropriety of the evidentiary techniques has come out and many of the convictions based on them have finally been overturned. Many other innocent people still rot in jail on blatantly false charges of molestation.

While it has taken the courts many years to discover and start reacting to the truth, there is a group who knew all along that the so-called "experts" were suborning false witness: namely, the "experts" themselves, and some of the prosecutors who were most in league with them. None is more clearly implicated than Janet Reno, who personally participated in measures so extreme as to constitute torture in order to suborn false witness the child molestation case she is most famous for, known as "Country Walk." Anyone wanting more information about this case and the rest of Reno's sordid past can read "Abusive Justice" by Rawl Jean Issac, National Review, 6/30/97.

If it were not sor the limited immunity that prosecutors enjoy, there is strong evidence that Janet Reno could and should be prosecuted for suborning false witness.

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Date Last Modified: 8/27/99
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