Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets

Razer rayzer at riseup.net
Sat Sep 10 20:39:05 PDT 2016



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
>>


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