Alan Dershowitz is an American attorney and Harvard Law professor. John Kiriakou says he debated Dershowitz head-to-head on Piers Morgan’s show over the Jeffrey Epstein case — an exchange Morgan himself called a “smackdown.” Kiriakou told Dershowitz that, had Dershowitz gone to the White House seeking a lighter sentence for Epstein on the grounds that Epstein was spying for a foreign country, Kiriakou would have wanted to see him “hanging from a tree” after being convicted on espionage charges.[1]
David Boies’s characterization
Kiriakou cites attorney David Boies — whom he calls one of the greatest criminal defense attorneys in modern American history — stating on a later Piers Morgan appearance that Dershowitz’s problem was that he had been far more than just Epstein’s lawyer: he was also Epstein’s publicist and friend, and had been a guest on Epstein’s island, appearing in his underwear alongside a 16-year-old girl. Boies also mocked Dershowitz’s continuing claim that he could have gotten Epstein a better deal had Epstein actually been a Mossad agent — noting Epstein, in Kiriakou’s telling, was in fact a Mossad asset.[2]