Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets

[Mirimir]

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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> 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

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
>