People are now able to read the truth. ‘A former FBI agent of memory on the war on terror after 9 years I Declassified

The story of how the United States learned that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the September 11 attacks, was in 2001 one of obstinacy, bad faith, and no small measure of Serendipity. “We Forrest Gumped us in it,” the former FBI agent Ali Soufan, member of the Bureau, who first discovered the connection in 2002, TIME said September 3 Approval of accidental happiness is a surprisingly self evaluation -contenuta an agent who was at the forefront in research activity jihadist FBI during 9/11. Soufan colleagues described him as “an American hero” for his courage to get information from the renunciation of torture and humiliation of prisoners in CIA interrogations pillars. The anecdote about Muhammad supposedly Soufan winning 2011 book, black flags appear: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the war against al-Qaeda. But along with oodles of other substances, the CIA censors changed the history sections for reasons of national security. The publication of a version released on September 8, after Soufan, marks the first time ever a book by an intelligence officer in the United States is censored and then the censorship was lifted. “It ‘a milestone for freedom of information and transparency,” says Soufan, who now heads the security of New York consulting the Soufan Group, and Soufan Center, a nonprofit think tank. “Now we know the truth about a very difficult time in the world and in America.” It was the accidental discovery of Mohammed role in 9/11 Soufan March 2002 when he was born after Saudi Arabia terrorist attack named Abu Zubaydah, America first prisoner interrogations quality. Zubaydah was captured after a shootout in Pakistan and the CIA have flown to an unknown country in which it was asked Soufan and his FBI partner to run a query. During the discussion, he asked Soufan Zubaydah to confirm the identity of a jihadist, who were charged in connection with the 1998 bombings of US embassies in East Africa. But instead of photos to show you mean accidentally Soufan see a different picture on his colleagues Palm Pilot-like device: that of Mohammed, also known as “KSM”, which provided the same FBI Most Wanted List, Zubaydah identified Mohammed had heard regarding a Soufan pseudonym before a previously unknown employees of Osama Bin Laden. Convinced Soufan Bluff that he already knew about Muhammad’s involvement in 9/11 sketched Zubaydah original idea Details Mohammed Cessna to fly into the Twin Towers, his meeting later with Bin Laden, and it was like the plot forward. Until then, US intelligence had no idea member Mohammed Al-Qaeda was, writes Soufan black Banner, not to mention the mind of 9/11. Soufan has long argued that the blackening of the CIA “abuse of power” formed the failures of the extended techniques of interrogation techniques (EIT) or torture as an interrogation technique developed to conceal and collected the information way to mask reality. Although details may never be known, some of the things EIT was the priority in the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2014 “Torture Report”, in addition to the extensive use of forced nudity documented waterboarding “rehydration rectum” and mock executions. [Soufan said the effectiveness of these techniques in front of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 2009 on Torture.] Edit In an interview for length and clarity, Soufan discussed the importance of the release of a declassified version of the Black Banner because the CIA for years by torture was ineffective when it knew the similarities between the current threat white supremacy and the threat of al Qaeda, which was addressed to 9/11 was, and why now nine years later, he is happy censured his original work was. should write in the preface to the black flag that the CIA never really believed the classified information and was, in fact, the project on the new fax you on an unsecured line. Because all newsrooms, then? First, it is important to distinguish between the [CIA] institution and some people who used to differentiate their power and position to do what they wanted; this is a distinction that I make in the book. But it was very obvious to me at that time that it is an abuse of power. It ‘was an attempt by distorting the dark, trying to prevent the story to come out that torture did not work and change everything that did not show the torture work. They also did not recognizable images or scenes that showed how to gain intelligence. E ‘was etched in the public psyche by Hollywood, by Dick Cheney that waterboarding terrorists and begins singing like a canary. People believe that. I could say, “Torture does not work, I was there.” But so far I could not reveal how we arrived Jose Padilla, for example, the so-called “dirty bomber” or texture on the Brooklyn Bridge can only say that it is not [torture]. Now people can see the truth. The book shows how to get the information they then claimed that we went through waterboarding. But the CIA has long been known torture does not work. In 1989, the CIA Congress said that the physical and psychological techniques, “counterproductive” because they “do not produce intelligence and probably lead to wrong answers.” Why did the CIA have their results after 9/11 ignore? Again, it was determined people at the CIA, not necessarily the institution. Many of the people on the ground were completely against [torture]. But basically there is a big difference between cooperation and compliance. Zubaydah cooperated tells us [the information on the role of Muhammad in 9/11.] Compliance is when waterboarding, after 83 sessions of Zubaydah that three men in the number of Al-Qaeda, while not a member. Compliance is tortured by Ibn al-Shaykh and says yes, collaborate Saddam and Al Qaeda and develop WMD. The respect is to give what you want to hear. Colin Powell was forced to go to the UN and testify that bin Laden and Saddam are working together to develop WMD, based on information we receive from torture. Unfortunately, what we see today in our culture it free today is not the beginning of Trump administration. The war in Iraq, the weapons of mass destruction of Saddam Hussein’s involvement with 9/11, if the works of torture were all partisans of the conversation. If Trump is to say its basic “absolutely waterboarding works” is not about the effectiveness or national security, it is biased. Because if you believe in waterboarding, or that Iraq was behind 9/11, you are a true Republican. If you do not believe us, check your patriotism. Therefore, it is a lot of applause from people who really know nothing about waterboarding. now one win, is that we are able to put the facts on the table: torture was not to be tough on terrorism; It was stupidity. It did not work. The images [of Inhaftiertem abuse] from inside Abu Ghraib were instrumental in recruiting jihadists in Iraq to come and fight against the US Thus, torture has helped our enemies. It hurt our credibility in the world. You assessments- Russian interference in the 2016 elections compared with the Iranian Atomabkomme and the Bush administration to ignore the warnings about the information that is visible through torture a parallel between the current administration contempt for the intelligence? What is now happening with the Trump administration, it is a logical step, of what has happened in the last two or three decades. But it is much more dangerous because these things, the US position influence the world market leader. We have the intelligence community with a score of, say comes once Iran deal. And all countries agree with this assessment. To even get on the Russian intervention in 2016. And then all the hard work of people in the field who risk their lives to get the information; all the hard work of analysts and bureaucrats who have nothing except serve the country and provide the political leadership to get an accurate assessment or lose, what happens; all these things only fly with a tweet out the window “So wrong” in the new book by Michael Schmidt writes that President John Kelly Trump the FBI management offered, but called loyalty committed to him. There have been reports also officials of the White House the US intelligence agencies COVID-link 19 Chinese laboratories under pressure. How concerned are you about the secret services, the ability to resist this pressure? I think that intelligence has to withstand this pressure. I do not know if they are able to withstand this pressure, if the President for another four years, opened. So far they have done a good job. You have told the truth. They put out reports on China, Russia, Iran, and often these reports directly contradict the Twitter account of the US president. As for the loyalty thing a lot of people that mentioned. [Former FBI director James] Comey said. A lot of times, the president seems jealous of Xi in China or Kim in North Korea to be. But we are not North Korea. People take office, the US Constitution against all enemies, defend at home and abroad. We do not give allegiance to a leader; we kiss no rings. Presidents come and go, but institutions remain. The Department of Homeland Security is on the United States, the most persistent and deadly threat to call ‘white racists. How information works in White Supremacy and how it compares in warnings about Al Qaeda They were treated Government Pre-was 11.9 in? There is a lot of overlap between the white supremacist movement today and where the jihadists were in 1990. There are similarities in the rhetoric, narration and anti-globalist message. When [cross-border group neo-Nazis] The Base glance, it is a copy of Al Qaeda. Copy Al Qaeda in their attitude video. Use manual Al Qaeda. Their flags are blacks. Department of nuclear weapons [other transnational neo-Nazi group], ISIS has tried to copy. groups of white supremacy have even have their own Afghanistan, Ukraine. Many people from all over the Western world are the Ukrainian conflict on different pages. But the United States now plays the role of Saudi Arabia in the wars of that jihadist linked to America! Unfortunately we are not to focus on how we should. We deal with the threat in a similar way as we dealt with jihadists before the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, when no one wanted to admit that they were a threat, because when they were our allies; They had fought the Soviets. Speaking of Saudi Arabia confirmed that the FBI, the Saudi government behind the disinformation campaign against you? I can not say what the FBI says it is an ongoing investigation. But I can tell you that the FBI is doing an incredible job in looking at this, and they take it very seriously. In our analysis, we were able to Forensic [the disinformation] campaign for the Saudi government. We went into it because it came soon after US intelligence has a threat from Al Qaeda network informed about my life and I because the online campaign has been very coordinated and not only did I pissed some people like [the Saudi crown prince ] Mohammed bin Salman. In our analysis, we found similarities between the campaign against Jamal Khashoggi, staring at the campaign against me. Some of the same people were involved, and there were some of the same bot. Even some of the language itself: “You go into a garbage can land”, “the end is near”, etc. You can not say that we have a connection between the threat intelligence of Al Qaeda and the threat of the Saudis found, but the time is interesting, the context is interesting, and the similarities with Jamal Khashoggi were evident. We all shared our findings with the government and have their own results. It is how it feels to editors raised now, nine years after the first publication of The Black Banner? There is still a role? and after nine years later, a lot of headache and heartache, I’m glad they did what they did. classified by these lines, they have admitted that they are true. Classify them lies. In a democracy, it is extremely important to have talks on the war on terrorism, torture and techniques that we use. But before having this conversation we need to have a common understanding of the truth. If we do not, the conversation will lead nowhere, except for conspiracies, raw emotion and alternative facts.
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