Justice For Dawn Hanna

Between 2002 and 2003, Dawn brokered 10-year-old, used telecommunications equipment for sale to Turkey, a legal operation, through a UK-based contact.

FACT: Dawn's brokering contact had always maintained that the equipment was destined for Turkey; not Iraq.

FACT: Dawn's contact, unbeknownst to her, was actually a CIA operative, participating in a secret U.S. government-sponsored operation involving Iraq.

FACT: Dawn was actually helping the U.S. government accomplish an important undercover mission.

The brokered equipment was destined for Iraq, a detail that was concealed from Dawn from the beginning. If the true intent and final destination of the equipment had been revealed, the operation would have been compromised, and people's lives would have been in danger.

In July 2007, more than four years after the original transaction, the U.S. government charged Dawn with a host of accusations with serious homeland security implications. The prosecutors in the case, Barbara McQuade and Michael Martin, hid the above-stated facts from the defense and, instead, prosecuted the case as if Dawn knew that the brokered equipment was headed to Iraq and wanted to help Saddam Hussein ... the exact opposite of the truth.

In October 2008, the trial concluded, and the jury found Dawn guilty on several charges. On September 8, 2009, Dawn began serving a 72-month prison sentence ... one of the longest given in U.S. history for violating U.S. trade sanctions with Iraq.

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The Fight For Justice

After Dawn's appalling sentence, two key individuals who were working with the CIA came forward, "outed" themselves, and have given sworn testimony detailing the facts of the case, which were known to the U.S. government the entire time.

Although a motion was filed for a new trial where the newly revealed information could be presented to a jury, Judge Marianne O. Battani ruled against the motion.

• Read the sworn testimony of a CIA operative detailing how the equipment in question was part of a secret U.S. CIA operation, how Dawn was not told of its real destination, and how the U.S. government knew this the whole time.

• Read a letter to Judge Battani alleging abuse of government power by concealing the truth and citations of unethical prosecution.

• Read a summary of Dawn's case from the beginning of the allegations through the sentencing phase.

• Read how Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow claim they do not have anything to do with the Justice System.

• Read the article in Crain's Detroit Business telling how Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow both recommended that Barbara McQuade, the prosecutor in this case, be promoted to US Attorney for Detroit.

Do you want a prosecutor who withholds the truth and puts an innocent person like Dawn in prison leading all prosecutions in Detroit?

You can help correct a serious injustice by contacting key individuals on behalf of Dawn Hanna:

The Honorable Eric Holder
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Phone: 202.514.2001

The Honorable Marianne O. Battani
United States District Judge
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
231 West Lafayette Boulevard
Detroit, MI 48226

Representative John Conyers Jr.
US House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
Washington Phone: 202.225.0072
Michigan Phone: 734.675.4218
Email: john.conyers@mail.house.gov

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

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