Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/10/2016 11:37 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/cia-insider-daniel-jon es-senate-torture-investigation
Also
this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pOPcmNBKAs "(55 mins) "Her name is Alfreda Frances Bikowsky." While those six words may seem innocuous, according to the Central Intelligence Agency, if made publicly, they might have sent Ray and his journalist colleagues to prison. On September 8, 2011, they received the first in a series of phone calls and emails from CIA's media rep Preston Golson. "We strongly believe it is a potential violation of federal criminal law [the IIPA Intelligence Identities Protection Act] to print the names of two reported undercover CIA officers whom you claim have been involved in the hunt against al Qa'ida." They had used this approach successfully several times in the past to persuade some of America's most respected journalists -- Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press, among others -- to withhold her name from the public. Seeking advice from the ACLU's National Security Project, its lead attorney Ben Wizner made them aware that she had become something of an open secret in his world. They had stumbled onto a hornet's nest. Bikowsky, as it turned out, was the person credited internally with the greatest PR coup of the Obama White House, the successful assassination earlier that year of Osama bin Laden. As chief of the Global Jihad Unit, she reportedly runs the nation's drone strikes program. She is a through-line running from the failure to prevent 9/11 to the push for war in Iraq to the development of the CIA's renditions, black sites, and torture program and continuing to today's targeted assassinations in countries around the world. Through her story, we can see the details of a devolution in the rule of law and the justice system in America, as well as the impetus for and birth of what some call the "war on whistleblowers and journalists." For 20 years, she has been at the center of history, yet the covert nature of her job has prevented that history from ever before being told to the public in one place. Doing so is necessary for a democratic citizenry to have an informed discussion about national security and intelligence policy in America's continuing fight against terrorism. Speaker: Ray Nowosielski -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX1FpdAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqDvUH/0h62XgCZ1Vvv7NiEHHaf0dd JcFya3MBIkVbTNzakGGLW+i8SgK+ohnBNm21HnOMR3g4bShE9Ec66ZTJDY00sC+9 1j1YwP+xGssqOvbFJxLkt83vlProprUqm5JDFRLF5pQgHO0xdfnUjEF6tV8kggv9 /YD1OZNCZcJmSCYC9Pc113j05yeUOBcwf2nI9rgCzUlEwGGWTybsm4iyIAQWlttO aty6Gy9rFiAYJToX1H2ITstJWX0W1AxyVZQcAeBDh8UivhXZhQcNkO7xygVbFgOK Z/7IIIQ5rNzNu2dgG99yOakmJSnyAIGjvDKu/Cabyf+bPFj6o4cfxSUKaiTcK7Q= =PFK9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 09/10/2016 01:09 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
On 09/10/2016 11:37 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/cia-insider-daniel-jon
es-senate-torture-investigation
Also
this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pOPcmNBKAs
"(55 mins) "Her name is Alfreda Frances Bikowsky." While those six
OK, so anyone want to dox her?
words may seem innocuous, according to the Central Intelligence Agency, if made publicly, they might have sent Ray and his journalist colleagues to prison. On September 8, 2011, they received the first in a series of phone calls and emails from CIA's media rep Preston Golson. "We strongly believe it is a potential violation of federal criminal law [the IIPA Intelligence Identities Protection Act] to print the names of two reported undercover CIA officers whom you claim have been involved in the hunt against al Qa'ida." They had used this approach successfully several times in the past to persuade some of America's most respected journalists -- Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press, among others -- to withhold her name from the public. Seeking advice from the ACLU's National Security Project, its lead attorney Ben Wizner made them aware that she had become something of an open secret in his world. They had stumbled onto a hornet's nest. Bikowsky, as it turned out, was the person credited internally with the greatest PR coup of the Obama White House, the successful assassination earlier that year of Osama bin Laden. As chief of the Global Jihad Unit, she reportedly runs the nation's drone strikes program. She is a through-line running from the failure to prevent 9/11 to the push for war in Iraq to the development of the CIA's renditions, black sites, and torture program and continuing to today's targeted assassinations in countries around the world. Through her story, we can see the details of a devolution in the rule of law and the justice system in America, as well as the impetus for and birth of what some call the "war on whistleblowers and journalists." For 20 years, she has been at the center of history, yet the covert nature of her job has prevented that history from ever before being told to the public in one place. Doing so is necessary for a democratic citizenry to have an informed discussion about national security and intelligence policy in America's continuing fight against terrorism. Speaker: Ray Nowosielski
On 09/10/2016 07:39 PM, Mirimir wrote:
OK, so anyone want to dox her?
"Richard Blee" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfreda_Frances_Bikowsky#Who_is_Rich_Blee.3F And I can't stop thinking she's somehow related to Betty Jo Bialowsky from Nick Danger's crew... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwG5c9IsgbA Rr
On 09/10/2016 01:09 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
On 09/10/2016 11:37 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/cia-insider-daniel-jon
es-senate-torture-investigation
Also
this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pOPcmNBKAs
"(55 mins) "Her name is Alfreda Frances Bikowsky." While those six
OK, so anyone want to dox her?
words may seem innocuous, according to the Central Intelligence Agency, if made publicly, they might have sent Ray and his journalist colleagues to prison. On September 8, 2011, they received the first in a series of phone calls and emails from CIA's media rep Preston Golson. "We strongly believe it is a potential violation of federal criminal law [the IIPA Intelligence Identities Protection Act] to print the names of two reported undercover CIA officers whom you claim have been involved in the hunt against al Qa'ida." They had used this approach successfully several times in the past to persuade some of America's most respected journalists -- Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press, among others -- to withhold her name from the public. Seeking advice from the ACLU's National Security Project, its lead attorney Ben Wizner made them aware that she had become something of an open secret in his world. They had stumbled onto a hornet's nest. Bikowsky, as it turned out, was the person credited internally with the greatest PR coup of the Obama White House, the successful assassination earlier that year of Osama bin Laden. As chief of the Global Jihad Unit, she reportedly runs the nation's drone strikes program. She is a through-line running from the failure to prevent 9/11 to the push for war in Iraq to the development of the CIA's renditions, black sites, and torture program and continuing to today's targeted assassinations in countries around the world. Through her story, we can see the details of a devolution in the rule of law and the justice system in America, as well as the impetus for and birth of what some call the "war on whistleblowers and journalists." For 20 years, she has been at the center of history, yet the covert nature of her job has prevented that history from ever before being told to the public in one place. Doing so is necessary for a democratic citizenry to have an informed discussion about national security and intelligence policy in America's continuing fight against terrorism. Speaker: Ray Nowosielski
On 09/10/2016 09:39 PM, Razer wrote:
On 09/10/2016 07:39 PM, Mirimir wrote:
OK, so anyone want to dox her?
"Richard Blee"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfreda_Frances_Bikowsky#Who_is_Rich_Blee.3F
And I can't stop thinking she's somehow related to Betty Jo Bialowsky from Nick Danger's crew... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwG5c9IsgbA
Rr
lol But damn, it seems like contact information for her and/or her husband is pretty common knowledge among reporters. So why don't they share? Think of all the potential lulz!
On 09/10/2016 01:09 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
On 09/10/2016 11:37 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/cia-insider-daniel-jon
es-senate-torture-investigation
Also
this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pOPcmNBKAs
"(55 mins) "Her name is Alfreda Frances Bikowsky." While those six
OK, so anyone want to dox her?
words may seem innocuous, according to the Central Intelligence Agency, if made publicly, they might have sent Ray and his journalist colleagues to prison. On September 8, 2011, they received the first in a series of phone calls and emails from CIA's media rep Preston Golson. "We strongly believe it is a potential violation of federal criminal law [the IIPA Intelligence Identities Protection Act] to print the names of two reported undercover CIA officers whom you claim have been involved in the hunt against al Qa'ida." They had used this approach successfully several times in the past to persuade some of America's most respected journalists -- Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press, among others -- to withhold her name from the public. Seeking advice from the ACLU's National Security Project, its lead attorney Ben Wizner made them aware that she had become something of an open secret in his world. They had stumbled onto a hornet's nest. Bikowsky, as it turned out, was the person credited internally with the greatest PR coup of the Obama White House, the successful assassination earlier that year of Osama bin Laden. As chief of the Global Jihad Unit, she reportedly runs the nation's drone strikes program. She is a through-line running from the failure to prevent 9/11 to the push for war in Iraq to the development of the CIA's renditions, black sites, and torture program and continuing to today's targeted assassinations in countries around the world. Through her story, we can see the details of a devolution in the rule of law and the justice system in America, as well as the impetus for and birth of what some call the "war on whistleblowers and journalists." For 20 years, she has been at the center of history, yet the covert nature of her job has prevented that history from ever before being told to the public in one place. Doing so is necessary for a democratic citizenry to have an informed discussion about national security and intelligence policy in America's continuing fight against terrorism. Speaker: Ray Nowosielski
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