Unmask The High-Placed Bumbler In The CIA
Please, somebody who knows who this chickie is, name names. Give it to some blogger on a slip of paper and get this information out there.
Jane Mayer writes in The New Yorker:
A single senior officer, who is still in a position of high authority over counterterrorism at the C.I.A.--a woman who he does not name--appears to have been a source of years' worth of terrible judgment, with tragic consequences for the United States. Her story runs through the entire report. She dropped the ball when the C.I.A. was given information that might very well have prevented the 9/11 attacks; she gleefully participated in torture sessions afterward; she misinterpreted intelligence in such a way that it sent the C.I.A. on an absurd chase for Al Qaeda sleeper cells in Montana. And then she falsely told congressional overseers that the torture worked.Had the Senate Intelligence Committee been permitted to use pseudonyms for the central characters in its report, as all previous congressional studies of intelligence failures, including the widely heralded Church Committee report in 1975, have done, it might not have taken a painstaking, and still somewhat cryptic, investigation after the fact in order for the American public to hold this senior official accountable. Many people who have worked with her over the years expressed shock to NBC that she has been entrusted with so much power. A former intelligence officer who worked directly with her is quoted by NBC, on background, as saying that she bears so much responsibility for so many intelligence failures that "she should be put on trial and put in jail for what she has done."
Instead, however, she has been promoted to the rank of a general in the military, most recently working as the head of the C.I.A.'s global-jihad unit.
Government -- fail your way to the top, with tragic consequences, and stay there.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/19/senior-cia-officer-center-torture-scandals-alfreda-bikowsky/
Andrew at December 20, 2014 4:41 AM
Thank you so much, Andrew.
Amy Alkon at December 20, 2014 5:22 AM
Wonder how many guys were thrown under a bus because she was woman and someone's pc ticket.
Bob in texas at December 20, 2014 6:02 AM
Shouldn't this link to the original source?
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/bin-laden-expert-accused-shaping-cia-deception-torture-program-n269551
kenmce at December 20, 2014 8:07 AM
I've been working as a contractor for Fedzilla for most of the past 25 years.
The sheer amount of incompetence I've seen promoted FAR beyond their Peter Principle level is astounding.
Promotion to management is pretty much guaranteed if you have a vajayajay or sufficient melanin levels. Actual ability, knowledge, and competence. . . not so much.
And the worst part, is they feel ENTITLED to their power. . .
Keith Glass at December 20, 2014 9:25 AM
Thank you so much, Andrew.
Posted by: Amy Alkon at December 20, 2014 5:22 AM
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This is a really high-service blog.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 20, 2014 10:18 AM
Alfreda Bikowsky is not covert, and has been named in articles for years (she has her own Wiki page). She's the prime reason the CIA fought so hard to have the pseudonyms of their personnel redacted in the summary of the Torture Report that was finally released - they didn't want the public to be able to follow the trail of Alfreda's fuck ups.
Fun Fact: Bob Litt, General Counsel for the DNI, who was in charge of declassifying the summary of the Torture Report, was previously Aflreda's Personal Counsel.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2014/08/27/should-alfreda-bikowskys-lawyer-really-be-in-charge-of-declassifying-the-torture-report/
rosalind at December 21, 2014 9:41 AM
Rosalind- Sincere thanks for your comment.
I've always had the sense that Jane Mayer was kind of a whitebread, play-along DC operative.
But sheesh!
Can you speculate on why Mayer wouldn't have published the name?
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 21, 2014 1:04 PM
Thanks, Crid. I can't speak to Mayer specifically, but the D.C./NYC media are dependent on access, and the Powers-to-Be make it very clear what ground-rules must be followed to maintain this access.
The Security State players now have massive troves of personal info on all of us they can use/abuse to force compliance. The Gov't has made clear journalists' right to confidentiality with their sources is no longer operative, and will grab all their communications to do with whatever the hell they want, even if means ruining someone's life.
Jose Rodriguez destroyed the torture tapes in direct violation of a Judge's order, and he got a book tour. John Kriakou blew the whistle on the CIA torture and is sitting in prison.
The FBI Director, James Comey, recently asserted that anyone who encrypts their email communications is automatically suspect in his eyes.
We are witnessing the dismantling of the Three Branches of Gov't in service to a Security State acting without checks or balance.
Beyond scary.
rosalind at December 22, 2014 11:58 AM
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