Kiriakou said a "senior female CIA counter-terrorism officer" (presumably Bikowsky) ordered the rendition over the objections of her subordinates. It Would Take 12 Hours to Read Off Names of All Sp... JPMorgan CEO Helped Whip Votes for Budget Bill Tha... Kathy Kelly and Georgia Walker found Guilty at Jef... What Does it Take to Have an Open and Honest Conve... Baltimore Activist Alert - December 12 - 14, 2014. Scene at Botched Oklahoma Execution of Clayton Loc... A U.S. Activist’s Last Days in the West Bank City ... Baltimore Activist Alert - December 14 - 16, 2014. South Garland (Texas) High School alumni have been keeping tabs on their classmates for reunion purposes: http://www.dfwretroplex.com/SGHS_1983_master.htm. Meet Alfreda Bikowsky, the Senior Officer at the C... Calls for 'Torture Team' Prosecutions Persist as C... Baltimore Activist Alert - December 21 - 22, 2014, Baltimore Activist Alert - December 20 - 21, 2014. You can be the first one to leave a comment. In the months leading up to the release of the torture report, the CIA and the White House fought to prevent the Senate even from assigning pseudonyms to the CIA officers whose actions are chronicled in the report. El-Masri, who was revealed to be innocent, claimed to have been tortured by the agency.” El-Masri, a German citizen who was kidnapped from Macedonia and tortured by the CIA in Afghanistan, was released in 2003 after it was revealed he was not involved in al Qaeda. The Senate ultimately capitulated, making it difficult to follow any coherent narrative about what these officers did. Donations can be sent to BNC at Max Obuszewski, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. A warning, if you comment here, I may use it in my paper publication. [8](pp284–5) El-Masri was eventually released in late May on a country road in Albania. West Midlands Police said the woman is being questioned at a police station in the West Midlands on suspicion of preparing for acts of terrorism. Mechanical Engineer with a background in defense, electronics packaging, medical & food equipment, transportation, and manufacturing. (Because he keeps attacking my feet). Multiple news outlets have reported that as the result of a long string of significant errors and malfeasance, her competence and integrity are doubted — even by some within the agency. Sunday, December 21, 2014. [22], In 2011, independent journalists Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy planned to release an audio documentary entitled Who is Rich Blee? Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou: "I'm the Only... Top 7 Ways Assassination Fails USA as Policy. In my spare time (Hah! [14], In 2015, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, a German non-profit human rights organization, filed a criminal complaint in Germany asking for a federal criminal investigation of Bikowsky for the rendition and torture of El-Masri. [1][19] Rossini further stated that Bikowsky told congressional investigators in 2002 that she hand-delivered al-Mihdhar's visa information to FBI headquarters. Should his relationship to Bikowsky be confirmed, its hard to imagine how his ideas have not trickled into Bikowsky’s mind, and consequently, the CIA’s business practices. The Intercept is naming Bikowsky over CIA objections because of her key role in misleading Congress about the agency’s use of torture, and her active participation in the torture program (including playing a direct part in the torture of at least one innocent detainee). In reference to the episode, he referred to the film Zero Dark Thirty.[20]. 40 Years is put out the old fashioned way, it's printed out on ledger sized paper with 4 pages and mailed to people, total circulation of about 100. It's a posting ground for my more-or-less annual personal newsletter, 40 Years in the Desert. In a follow-up voicemail he added: “There are crazy people in this world and we are trying to mitigate those threats.”. on an absurd chase for Al Qaeda sleeper cells in Montana. The person described by both NBC and The New Yorker is senior CIA officer Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. By Elisabeth Braw for Aljazeera - BERLIN — A German human rights group has filed a criminal complaint against Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, a CIA official who allegedly authorized torture of suspected al Qaeda militants. 'Biggest Fracking Victory Ever!' [16] They claim that their webmaster later posted an email containing the identities by accident. "[3], In late January 2004, Bikowsky, as head of the Bin Laden Issue Station, made the decision to extraordinarily render Khalid El-Masri to Afghanistan for four months without any evidence in hand. Silverstein has gone on to be deeply involved in formulating foreign, defense, and national security policy. And then she falsely told congressional overseers that the torture worked.” Mayer also wrote that the officer is “the same woman” identified in the Senate report who oversaw “the months-long rendition and gruesome interrogation of another detainee whose detention was a case of mistaken identity.”. The complaint cited the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture as proof of Bikowsky's involvement. A German human rights group filed a criminal complaint in court against Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, a CIA agent dubbed “Queen of Torture.” The group claims Bikowsky allowed using tortures to suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the unit she headed and participated in tortures herself.