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| Part 3: Libel Tourism | 2009-01-13 |
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The Current Rachel Ehrenfeld is an Israeli-American author who specializes in the field of counterterrorism. A little more than five years ago, she published a book called Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It. In it, she named several people that she said were financing terrorist acts. One of the people she named -- a Saudi billionaire -- decided to sue her in England, even though her book hadn't been published there. Under American libel law, the onus is on the person who feels they have been libeled to prove their case. But in the United Kingdom -- and elsewhere -- it's the opposite. The burden is on the person accused of libel to back up what she wrote. Rachel Ehrenfeld eventually lost that case. And now she's fighting a campaign against what she -- and some lawyers -- are calling "libel tourism." Rachel Ehrenfeld was in New York City. |
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