Thank you for posting the photo of Ted Maher at 14.
We are indebted to former U.S. Navy intelligence officer Amy Water's Yarsinske, author of NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: The Lt. Commander Michael Scott Speicher Story for the information regarding Section 1732 below, and to professor emeritus of Brooklyn Law Henry Mark Holzer author (with Erika Holzer) of AID AND COMFORT: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam for the cite of the statute. Amy reports it is being used by the President for Scott Speicher; Henry Mark Holzer reports on its use in case law in some detail.
Here is the statute set out as it appears on Ted Maher's current thread on Free Republic:
We are well aware from Amy Waters Yarsinske, NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: The Lt. Commander Michael Scott Speicher Story that Iraq wrongly holds our fellow American Scott Speicher.
Largely through Amy's efforts, the status of Scott Speicher has been changed and he is being sought by President Bush.
When President Bush publicly mentions our fellow American in foreign hands he is using an existing statute:
Section 1732.
Release of citizens imprisoned by foreign governments
Whenever it is made known to the President that any citizen of the United States has been unjustly deprived of his liberty by or under the authority of any foreign government, it shall be the duty of the President forthwith to demand of that government the reasons of such imprisonment; and if it appears to be wrongful and in violation of the rights of American citizenship, the President shall forthwith demand the release of such citizen, and if the release so demanded is unreasonably delayed or refused, the President shall use such means, not amounting to acts of war and not otherwise prohibited by law, as he may think necessary and proper to obtain or effectuate the release; and all the facts and proceedings relative thereto shall as soon as practicable be communicated by the President to Congress.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/22/chapters/23/sections/section_1732.html
Ted Maher, innocent of all charges, wrongly held in violation of his civil rights, Monaco law, and several existing international conventions and treaties including those accorded under the United Nations, warrants the intervention of the President of the United States under the above referenced U.S. Code.
God Bless the world's finest fighting force poised on go for getting some.
Saddam's head in a jar, and leave no one behind.
Bring back Scott Speicher and every one of yourselves in first-class condition.
God Speed.