Michael Moynihan
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842 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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There's no people involved in those things in the sense that it's life-affirming. Yeah, well, I mean, it could be a rainy night. It could be just bad luck. It could be smoking cigarettes that gives you cancer. But in this sense, to have a renewed spirit and faith in humanity, even.
Yeah, but I would break my faith in humanity and break my spirit, I would imagine.
You don't think so?
When you were getting tortured?
But there was no rage or anything like that.
And the worst bits of that... you came out of this thinking kind of the same thing. Not right away. Not right away. That's a transformation that happens in America or during your captivity?
You're not being tortured. You're in the middle of the day. You've maybe just eaten. No one's bothering you in your cell. What are you thinking? What does the brain do in that period? I remember, I think that you told me one time you were writing in your head. Yeah. That you were writing novels in your head.
Were you writing in a sort of code or just anything?
So you didn't know, this is a couple of hours, maybe an hour, a couple of hours before you released and you had no idea. Right. None.
Yeah.
And so they drove you to the border?
The people that drove you were the people you knew, the captors that you saw all the time.
Let me ask you one more thing about the future of Syria. I mean, I'm blown away that we started talking and you told me that you've seen your captors on CNN, people that you saw in your torture cells that are active in the current, shall we say, interim Syrian government. That must terrify you in some ways.
And you think that this current iteration of the Syrian government, whatever it is, that this is a bunch of spin propaganda lies that Jalani and the al-Nusra people have reformed? How much faith do you put in that?
Well, it's hard to say. But you don't expect that... what we saw in the worst parts and the depths of Islamic State and Raqqa is going to be recreated through the entire borders of Syria?
So they're rational in a way.
Theo, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Thanks for listening. If you like this conversation, please share this episode with your friends. And if you want to support the work we do here, go to thefp.com and become a Free Press subscriber today. See you next time.
Agreed.
I had a murder. case where the defendant did not intentionally kill the victim. He went into an ATM on the Upper West Side and tried to rob an individual. Unfortunately, it was an older individual. He was 86. And in the course of the robbery, he fell to the ground. And as a result, he died. This is, under the law, a felony murder, which is akin to intentional murder.
However, when I first got the case, I took the time to learn about the defendant. And it was a strong case. So it wasn't about who done it. I knew immediately who did it. I could prove it. I could take it to trial that day and win it. But it wasn't about that.
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