Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets

Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net
Sat Sep 10 12:09:17 PDT 2016


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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
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