# John Walker Lindh (remember him?), Ashcroft and original intent.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-walker-lindh-remember-him-ashcroft-and-original-intent/109345>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 16, 2002, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-walker-lindh-remember-him-ashcroft-and-original-intent/109345 "2002-05-16T07:02:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-walker-lindh-remember-him-ashcroft-and-original-intent/109345/21 "2019-05-22T04:01:43Z")

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Updating this thread after 17 years:

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> There’s a major new development involving Marin County’s John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban.”
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> Lindh is scheduled to be released from a U.S. Prison Thursday after serving 17 of his 20-year sentence.
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> Lindh was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and sentenced to prison for helping the Taliban after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S.
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> He is being held at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Upon his release, he will be under three-year supervision. It is unclear if he will be returning to the Bay Area.

> **['American Taliban' John Walker Lindh to be released from prison Thursday](https://abc7news.com/american-taliban-john-walker-lindh-to-be-released-from-prison/5305402/)**
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> The Marin County man who pleaded guilty to fighting for the Taliban after 9/11 will be released from prison on Thursday.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-walker-lindh-remember-him-ashcroft-and-original-intent/109345/22 "2019-05-27T18:52:37Z")

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> [@David\_Simmons](#):
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> The “national security” business is easy to run into the ground in my opinion.

It turns out that this was prescient. It’s hard to believe that it has been 10 years since David posted here.

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