Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets

[Mirimir]

On 09/10/2016 09:39 PM, Razer wrote:
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> On 09/10/2016 07:39 PM, Mirimir wrote:
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>> OK, so anyone want to dox her?
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> "Richard Blee"
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfreda_Frances_Bikowsky#Who_is_Rich_Blee.3F
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> 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
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> 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:
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>>> On 09/10/2016 11:37 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
>>>> Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets
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>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/cia-insider-daniel-jon
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>> es-senate-torture-investigation
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>>> Also
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>>> this:
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>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pOPcmNBKAs
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>>> "(55 mins) "Her name is Alfreda Frances Bikowsky." While those six
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>> OK, so anyone want to dox her?
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>>> 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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