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“I'll answer that part first, that's the easy one,” explains John Kiriakou, the former CIA intelligence officer who served 30 months in federal prison for exposing the agency's torture program to the world, when asked whether he'd do it all again despite the personal and professional fallout from his disclosure. Those are just some of the many profound insights he shared with us during a recent, wide-ranging conversation encompassing everything from the significance of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's recent plea deal with U.S. authorities to the lack of affirmative defense under the WWI-era Espionage Act to his thoughts on Israel's indefinite detention and alleged torture of Palestinians, the personal toll of truth-telling, ongoing ‘War on Terror,' and much more. News Beat is produced in association with Manny Faces Media. Sign up for our free newsletter at newsbeat.substack.com Producer/Audio Editor: Michael "Manny Faces" ConfortiEditor-In-Chief: Chris TwarowskiManaging Editor: Rashed MianEpisode Art: Jon ChimSupport the show: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=EYkdQRkbZ6vNTGfNSGWZjx7_15orqqDl8vkmrAg3TkxLprft1OguFwxlheC3tAkNd-KVPG&country.x=US&locale.x=USSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Original air date: August 2014. Texe reflects on the CIA's torture report. Texe is very passionate in this episode. We present you this episode uncut as it aired that day.Email us: thefacthunter@mail.comWebsite: thefacthunter.com

On the first ever Protestant Libertarian Podcast roundtable, my three guests are Reverend Doctor Jennifer Copeland, who is the director of the North Carolina Council of Churches, Doctor Christina Cowger, who is the facilitator of North Carolina Stop Torture Now, an organization that has been fighting against CIA torture programs that use North Carolina-based planes, and Raymond McGovern, an army veteran and a CIA analyst for decades, who has a heroic record of opposing the excesses of the US war on terror and writes for antiwar.com. We discuss Dr. Copeland's recent piece ‘Dishonoring the Boy Scouts of America', in which she critiques the George W. Bush administration's shameful record on torture. We discuss the torture programs, the CIA, rendition using North Carolina tax-funded planes, how we are programmed to legitimize the bad foreign policy decisions of the US government, why this is a bi-partisan problem, and why Christians need to take this issue extremely seriously. This is not one to miss!Media Referenced:Dishonoring the Boy Scouts of America: https://www.ncchurches.org/2022/09/dishonoring-the-boy-scouts-of-america/North Carolina Council of Churches: https://www.ncchurches.orgNC Council Twitter Handle: @ncchurchesNorth Carolina Stop Torture Now: http://ncstn.org/content/Dr. Christina Cowger Twitter Handle: @ChristinaNCSTNRaymond McGovern's Website: https://raymcgovern.comRaymond McGovern's Twitter Handle: @raymcgovernQuestions, comments, suggestions? Please reach out to me at theprotestantlibertarian@gmail.com.  You can also follow the podcast on Twitter: @prolibertypod. If you like the show and want to support it, you can! Check out the Protestant Libertarian Podcast page at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theplpodcast. Also, please consider giving me a star rating and leaving me a review, it really helps expand the shows profile! Thanks!

(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Andrew Bustamante is a former CIA Undercover Spy & Air Force Nuclear Operator. From 2007 to 2014, Bustamante and his wife, Jihi (also a CIA Agent) lived abroad as undercover agents for the US Government. While he cannot reveal his precise locations during his time as a spy, Andy operated primarily out of Asia –– and completed missions on 6 of the 7 continents over the course of his career. As a result of his actions in the line of duty, Bustamante is forever very unwelcome in many countries around the world. Guy's life is a movie and his hair is also real. You can check out Andy's Podcast, Everyday Espionage, here: http https://everydayspy.com/podcast   And His YouTube Here: https://youtube.com/c/EverydaySpy   Also, Take His Spy Skills Quiz Here: https://everydayspy.com/quiz ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Intro; Paramilitary; CIA Theory on 3 Types of People in the World; Good vs Bad; Maslow's Hierarchy; Information Warfare 30:45 - Andy's Work At CIA; “Real Spies”; Dark Thoughts; Types of Traits CIA wants in recruits; Undercover Agents in US; Rigging the game 52:32 - Where Andy went undercover; How CIA Agents approach Spying; How Andy cultivated assets; How Spies assess people; Tech & Intelligence 1:10:56 - Spotting mistakes to catch spies;false flags; The Girl In Red; Inglourious Basterds & The CIA 1:22:42 - The Story of How The CIA Recruited Andy; The CIA's Testing Procedures; CIA Agents are above the law; Never staying where you're targeting; Andy's undercover experience with his wife; Reverse Psychology 1:40:11 - Andy tells the story about the time his cover was blown; Why The CIA never wants to lose an officer; The 3 different types of surveillance; Julian and Andy debate CIA Torture 1:55:15 - Other countries using the United States' freedom of democracy against it; Andy explains why the Pilgrims are a myth; Andy reveals CIA's opinion on voting rights; Nobody ever hears about the W's 2:10:16 - Julian and Andy have an intense debate on privacy rights, Snowden / Stellar Wind, and everything in between; Andy explains why it might be time to leave America; The CIA, groupthink, and why they pick very specific people; Military Industrial Complex discussion 2:47:28 - Why Andy is closely watching Russian Debt right now; Andy breaks down the Russia Ukraine War and where Putin's initial objectives stand; Why Andy thinks Nuclear Bombs aren't off the table; Can you stop a nuke? 3:05:54 - Andy provides intel on Taiwan and their impending China problem; Why CIA loves anxiety; Andy's opinion of the CIA today ~ YouTube EPISODES & CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0A-v_DL-h76F75xik8h03Q ~ Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “TRENDIFIER”): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier   PRIVADO VPN FOR $4.99/Month: https://privadovpn.com/trendifier/#a_aid=Julian Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey ~ Beat provided by: https://freebeats.io Music Produced by White Hot

The news man tells me the CIA's "Queen of Torture" now runs a life and beauty coaching business which helps midlife women “look good, feel good, and do good.” "HI, I'M FREDA, A CERTIFIED BEAUTY AND LIFE COACH READY TO HELP YOU OWN YOUR BEAUTY FROM THE INSIDE OUT AND FEEL INVINCIBLE IN MIDLIFE," her website reads in all caps. And I can only sit here and wonder, twiddling my pockmarked heart in my hands, how one is meant to react to such information? Does one fall to one's knees and weep hot tears for her victims, whose screams still haunt soulless fluorescent echoing corridors and whose hurts will never heal? Does one fall to one's knees and weep hot tears for our children, whose inheritance is a culture made of wetiko virus and psyops and a world we are clearcutting to make billboards? Does one fall to one's knees and weep hot tears for the Indigenous, whose lives we bulldozed and paved over with asphalt just to build a ghostmind civilization where something like this could happen? Does one shout "Allahu Akbar!" and throw one's smartphone off the overpass? Does one take off one's clothes and shriek like an ape in a last-ditch attempt at restoring the primal clarity? At bringing things back to before they went wrong, back before CIA torture queens became life and beauty coaches? Back before CIA torture queens were able to shout from the Reuters rooftops, "I raised my hand loud and proud and you know, I don't regret it at all"? Back before Hollywood movies glorifying CIA torture and its queendom began warping our minds and turning our souls into oil? Back before the sky was scraped by dark towers built on the foundation of an economy that's held together by lies and cruise missiles?  Back before brainwashed mouth muppets said things like "We can't be afraid of war with Russia just because Putin has nukes" or "Unregulated speech is bad and dangerous" or "If the CIA was propagandizing us we'd have heard about it in the news"? Back before we found ourselves sitting here killing time waiting to find out whether humanity dies of climate collapse or nuclear armageddon and whether the inevitable Zelensky movie will star Ryan Reynolds or Channing Tatum? Back before Silicon Valley Pentagon proxies funneled 21st-century Norman Rockwell paintings into each of our QR-coded skulls? Back before our dreams had Downvote buttons and our nightmares had laugh tracks? Before directionless lives and carefully scripted wars? Before truth was a choked off whisper and bullshit had a Jumbotron? Before hallucinogens were outlawed and hallucinations were mandatory? I see you, Queen of Torture, and everything you've always been. Do you think your Instagram ads and Botox siren songs fool me? I see the eels behind your eyes and the skulls inside your smile; in your heart you are still torturing, and you love it. Torture is your first love, your only love, your soulmate, your sex; torture is what you're made of, torture is what you are. You are inseparably one with the machine which tortures the poor, which tortures our ecosystem, which tortures children under blockades and starvation sanctions, which tortures our dreamworlds and our sacred seeds of disobedience. We will beat the machine. We will win. That primal clarity lives within us still, and you can only sedate a giant for so long. The primal giant will rise, will crush the machine and the CIA black sites, will crack open Gitmo and devour Hollywood, will defecate on the Pentagon and wipe its ass with Langley, and will howl at the moon and banish the narrative matrix to wherever deleted files go. And we will be free. And we will be vast. And we will look at each other with unpolluted eyes for the very first time. And we will go out into the world, the real world, the original world, walking with our original feet and looking with our original eyes. Our seeds now great forests. Tortured no more. ____________________ Reading by Tim Foley.

CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou comments on the legal case of five Guantanamo Bay torture victims and what its outcome could say about the US. 

Sam and Emma (freshly back from vacation!) break down a huge weekend in news, from the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the courts to labor and COVID, and more! Sam and Emma begin by reflecting on the myriad examples of incredible anti-war activism in the face of repression that we've seen by the Russian people, from newscasters to the elderly, as they dive into the xenophobia required to hold citizens accountable for the horrors of an autocratic regime, and how the Russian people are pushing back on it. Continuing with the theme of authoritarian terror, they then look to the recent Guardian report on the CIA keeping detainees (pre-trial, of course) at Guantanamo Bay to serve as “training props” to teach “interrogators” full-on torture techniques, as they follow the story of Ammar al-Baluchi, his abduction from Pakistan, and the decades he has spent at the bloody hands of American intelligence operatives as they were celebrated for their work. Next, they dive into legislatively-backed oppression in the US, as the Texas Supreme Court releases their final decision affirming the state's bounty-based abortion ban, and the immediate legislation it inspired across the US, from Idaho's law featuring higher bounties and more provider-focused penalties, to Missouri taking on the “out of state” loophole – states' rights who? Sam and Emma also dive into Joe Manchin sinking Biden's Fed Nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin, as he sidles up with the Republicans, keeping his word to his passionate and loyal base of oil tycoons. And in the Fun Half: Emma and Sam watch Fox & Friends rant about Biden using TikTok to disseminate information, referring to the up and coming influencers as “useful idiots,” which, honestly, might give them too much credit in their usefulness, Jay from Canada dives into the horrors of long-term COVID, particularly when it comes to the neurological effects, and Robert from NY differentiates gun ownership from bodily autonomy. The media sees the everyman Tom Brady as the model for retirees getting back into their absurdly physical labor, Lara Logan discusses build-a-bioweapon, and Glenn Greenwald gets dissected in only 33 tweets. Fox and Frenemies build their tension, Gregory from Oklahoma gives some updates from the campaign trail, and Sam busts a union live, on-air, plus, your calls and IMs!   Purchase tickets for the live show in Brooklyn March 26th and Boston on May 15th HERE:   https://majorityreportradio.com/live-show-schedule Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here:  https://madmimi.com/signups/170390/join Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Support the St. Vincent Nurses today! https://action.massnurses.org/we-stand-with-st-vincents-nurses/ Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Matt's other show Literary Hangover on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/literaryhangover Check out The Nomiki Show on YouTube. https://www.patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out The Letterhack's upcoming Kickstarter project for his new graphic novel! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/milagrocomic/milagro-heroe-de-las-calles Check out Jamie's podcast, The Antifada. https://www.patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at https://www.twitch.tv/theantifada (streaming every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm ET!) Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein's podcast News from Nowhere. https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere  Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop Mail supplies to help Ukrainian refugees in Poland here: Urzad miejskiw Przemyslu ul. Rynek 1 37-700 Przemysl, Poland The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/  

John Anthony Rizzo was an American attorney who worked as a lawyer in the Central Intelligence Agency for 34 years. He was the deputy counsel or acting general counsel of the CIA for the first nine years of the War on Terror, during which the CIA held dozens of detainees in black site prisons around the globe. During the George W. Bush administration, the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice approved various forms of torture (referred to as "enhanced interrogation techniques") in memos to Rizzo for use by CIA interrogators at the black sites. Rizzo signed off on all CIA-directed drone strikes from September 2001 until October 2009. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/art-mcdermott/support

John Bruce Jessen is an American psychologist who, with James Elmer Mitchell, created the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" that were used in the interrogation and torture of CIA detainees and outlined in the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report on CIA torture. In that report, he was mentioned under the pseudonym "Hammond Dunbar." His company, Mitchell Jessen and Associates, earned US$81 million for its work. On October 13, 2015 the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen on behalf of Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, Suleiman Abdullah Salim, and the estate of Gul Rahman, three former detainees who were subjected to the interrogation methods they designed. The suit alleges that the defendants' conduct constituted torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; non-consensual human experimentation; and war crimes – "all of which are violations of 'specific, universal, and obligatory' international law norms, as evidenced by numerous binding international treaties, declarations, and other international law instruments". A trial was set for June 2017.[18] On July 28, 2017, U.S. District Judge Justin Lowe Quackenbush denied both parties' motions for summary judgment, noted that the defendants are indemnified by the United States government, and encouraged the attorneys to reach a settlement before trial. A settlement was reached in August 2017. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/art-mcdermott/support

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A new HBO documentary that debuted this week tells the story of a man once thought to be a top al-Qaida operative. It also reveals U.S. attempts to justify torture in the name of protecting Americans. Amna Nawaz recently sat down with the filmmaker, Alex Gibney, for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

A new HBO documentary that debuted this week tells the story of a man once thought to be a top al-Qaida operative. It also reveals U.S. attempts to justify torture in the name of protecting Americans. Amna Nawaz recently sat down with the filmmaker, Alex Gibney, for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

A new HBO documentary that debuted this week tells the story of a man once thought to be a top al-Qaida operative. It also reveals U.S. attempts to justify torture in the name of protecting Americans. Amna Nawaz recently sat down with the filmmaker, Alex Gibney, for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

* INTERVIEW: John Kiriakou, CIA whistleblower, declassified information about torture, dark sites, Jan6 prisoners, CMU dissidents — and Guiliani “pardons”* Florida considers getting rid of federal OHSA because of abuse of power and doing it constitutionally instead at the state* Over 2 MILLION covid tests (from just a single maker) RECALLED — ALL FALSE POSITIVES* What is going on with the highly secretive, clandestine flights of illegal aliens being conducted by Biden administration? According to “official” tallies, the number of illegal aliens Biden will bring in this year is more than TWICE the population of his home state of Delaware* New film about 9/11 from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 truth. William Hurt narrates and talks about his finally facing the truth* Trump & Romney's niece push Republican “Pride Coalition” for LGBT. Is the tent big enough for people like Jeffrey Epstein, “attracted to minors”?* Update from Lithuania on what the 2030 prison society will look like everywhere for the unvaxed if we don't stop it. Resistance is building even in AustraliaFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughZelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at:  $davidknightshowBTC to:  bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Mail: David Knight POB 1323 Elgin, TX 78621

INTERVIEW: John Kiriakou, CIA whistleblower, declassified information about torture, dark sites, Jan6 prisoners, CMU dissidents — and Guiliani “pardons” Over 2 MILLION covid tests (from just a single maker) RECALLED — ALL FALSE POSITIVES Florida considers getting rid of federal OHSA because of abuse of power and doing it constitutionally instead at the state What is going on with the highly secretive, clandestine flights of illegal aliens being conducted by Biden administration?  According to “official” tallies, the number of illegal aliens Biden will bring in this year is more than TWICE the population of his home state of Delaware New film about 9/11 from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 truth.  William Hurt narrates and talks about his finally facing the truth Trump & Romney's niece push Republican “Pride Coalition” for LGBT.  Is the tent big enough for people like Jeffrey Epstein, “attracted to minors”? Update from Lithuania on what the 2030 prison society will look like everywhere for the unvaxed if we don't stop it.  Resistance is building even in Australia

As we pass the 20-year mark since September 11th, we are following up with the clients and the attorney of one seminal ACLU lawsuit on the CIA's post-9/11 torture program, a program that ended in 2010 but that continues to haunt its survivors and to stain the U.S.'s international human rights record. The lawsuit Salim v Mitchell was filed in 2015 against James Elmer Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, two psychologists contracted by the CIA to design, implement, and oversee the agency's post-9/11 torture program. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of three of the program's victims. All three were kidnapped by the CIA, and then tortured and experimented on according to Mitchell and Jessen's protocols. One of the men died as a result of his treatment. The other two men continue to endure the effects of their detention. In 2017, the psychologists agreed to a settlement — a first for a case involving CIA torture. We'll speak with ACLU Staff Attorney Steven Watt about what the litigation achieved and what still needs to happen to help prevent any future use of torture. We'll also have a chance to listen in on Steven's own recent conversations with our three clients as they rebuild their lives and navigate the continued effects of the torture program.

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From the period 2001 to 2005, over a quarter of all countries in the world cooperated in a secret rendition network that enabled the transfer of potential terrorist suspects to undisclosed detention sites. As many as fifty four foreign governments participated in these operations in different ways including; hosting CIA prisons on their soil ; interrogation, torture & abuse of individuals ;Providing intelligence ;Permitting the use of domestic airspace and airports for secret flights to transport detainees. By engaging in torture and other abuses the US government not only violated domestic and international law but left its moral standing on the world stage, in ruins. Overall it eroded support for its counterterrorism efforts worldwide as these abuses came to light. Furthermore, foreign governments failed to protect detainees from secret detention and extraordinary rendition on their territories and the United States undermined longstanding human rights protection, enshrined in international law, including the norm against torture. However, long before it was revealed to the general public, the Clinton Whitehouse was already engaged in policies that amounted to extraordinary rendition. By the mid-1990s the Clinton administration was active in transporting suspects to third-party countries where they were interrogated, tortured and even executed. Under George W. Bush, the scope of the operation simply widened and the legal restraints were loosened, In this episode we detail how the CIA's ghoulish system of torture was indeed part of a logical progression which developed over time, into the well oiled machinery that we know today. Essentially an orchestrated procedure designed to outsource torture which was slowly being perfected since the early Cold War period (several decades before the events of 9/11). This is because under various administrations dating back to the early post war period, the clandestine forces of the United States were already engaged in taking suspects from one country to another where they were subjected to abuse and in some cases, execution. These procedures have led to unimaginable cruelties, physical and sexual, that were often horrific and barely effective. For most of its history, the United States has cultivated a self serving, virtuous image that torture was always something the enemy did. However this has proved to be a fabricated myth which resurfaces in cyclical fashion to convince each new generation of the sanctity of American values and ideals.

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This week I got a chance to sit and chat with my friend and fellow "whistleblower elite club member", (as he calls it), John Kiriakou. If you don't already know, John is a retired CIA agent and a father of five, who didn't know how much his life was going to change one day back in 2007, when he saw something that was so wrong, and was compelled to speak up.Kiriakou spent 14 years at the CIA as an analyst and case officer, leading the team that found high-ranking al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah in 2002.Yet, years after the event and under the Obama administration, Kiriakou ended up spending 2 years in prison after blowing the whistle on the George W. Bush administration’s torture program. In 2007.Kiriakou became the first CIA official to publicly confirm and detail the agency’s use of waterboarding. In January 2013, he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. Under a plea deal, Kiriakou admitted to a single count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by revealing the identity of a covert officer involved in the torture program to a freelance reporter, who did not publish it. In return, prosecutors dropped charges brought under the Espionage Act. Kiriakou is the only official to be jailed for any reason relating to CIA torture. Supporters say he was unfairly targeted in the Obama administration’s crackdown on government whistleblowers. The Espionage Act of 1917 (yes thats right, 1917) is the same law that current administrations use as a "catch all" to prosecute anyone who whistle blows on our own Government, essentially. Many call this recent trend of targeting whistleblowers, a direct attack on Freedom of Speech and especially, Freedom of the Press.Originally, the Espionage Act was hardly ever cited and only limited to entirely active and known spies---until recently. Both the Obama and Trump administrations have now started using this literally unrelated law to sweep and target whistleblowers who are trying to let everyone know of outrageous and or corrupt practices within our own government.Let's take a look at Obama and Trumps stats, proving that party politics are not the only driving force behind this sudden dramatic increase in targeting whistleblowers. It seems to have become a "we support whistleblowers.......as long as they arent blowing the whistle on US.Support the show (https://www.PayPal.Me/whistleblowerpodcast)

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On this episode your hosts Jeff and Jeremy discuss the thirty-ninth Deathwish, Inc. release (DW037), which is the album "Sex Positions" by Sex Positions. We also discuss (among other things) having two versions of the same band existing at the same time, how the Grinch stole Christmas, and mid 2000's gaudy merch designs. You can listen to the release here (https://deathwishinc.bandcamp.com/album/sex-positions) You can find our Patreon here (https://www.patreon.com/deathscographypod) You can find out more information about the BLM movement and where to donate here (https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/). Social Media: Jeremy - @ironraygun (IG & Twitter) Jeff - @carbombsermon (IG & Twitter) Deathscography Podcast - @deathscographypod (IG & FB) / @deathscography (Twitter) / deathscographypod@gmail.com

Scott interviews Jeffrey Kaye about Avril Haines, a former Obama administration adviser and Deputy Director of the CIA recently appointed as a foreign policy adviser to Joe Biden. Haines has been described as a “superstar”, and clearly has a future as a well-connected national security insider. But Kaye says people should be alarmed by her past, most notably her probable connections to the CIA’s torture and “kill list” programs. Despite appearances—Haines is known for her more compassionate, intelligent approach—Kaye warns that she is just another part of the same destructive, immoral foreign policy establishment that Biden represents, and which he would surely seek to advance as president. Discussed on the show: “Biden Advisor an “Apologist for Torture,” an Architect of “Kill Lists”” (Institute for Public Accuracy) “Avril Haines, The Least Likely Spy” (Newsweek) “Palantir Affiliation Disappears from Biden Adviser Avril Haines’s Bio” (The Intercept) “The Proxy War over Joe Biden Adviser Avril Haines” (The Daily Beast) “Jeremy Scahill Reveals CIA Facility, Prison in Somalia as U.S. Expands Covert Ops in Stricken Nation” (Democracy Now) “Terror Tuesdays, Kill Lists and Drones: Has the President Become a Law Unto Himself?” (Huffington Post) “The Drone Papers: Secret documents detail the U.S. assassination program.” (The Intercept) Jeffrey Kaye is the author of Cover-up at Guantanamo: The NCIS Investigation into the “Suicides” of Mohammed Al Hanashi and Abdul Rahman Al Amri. Kaye is a retired psychologist, blogger, and author. Read his blog and follow him on Twitter @jeff_kaye. Thomas Powell is an artist and writer. He is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy and American politics. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com. Donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal, or Bitcoin: 1Ct2FmcGrAGX56RnDtN9HncYghXfvF2GAh.

Scott interviews Jeffrey Kaye about Avril Haines, a former Obama administration adviser and Deputy Director of the CIA recently appointed as a foreign policy adviser to Joe Biden. Haines has been described as a “superstar”, and clearly has a future as a well-connected national security insider. But Kaye says people should be alarmed by her past, most notably her probable connections to the CIA’s torture and “kill list” programs. Despite appearances—Haines is known for her more compassionate, intelligent approach—Kaye warns that she is just another part of the same destructive, immoral foreign policy establishment that Biden represents, and which he would surely seek to advance as president.

36 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Pete invited the man who blew the whistle on the CIA torture program, John Kiriakou, to come on the show and discuss the different factions on the America Left. They also discuss the Democratic primaries and who can beat trump in the coming November election, as well as how they see party politics going forward if Bernie doesn't get the nomination John Kiriakou is a former CIA operative and senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A target of the Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers, he remains the only US official to serve time behind bars after revelations of CIA “enhanced interrogation” practices, despite openly opposing the torture program. He maintains that his case was about exposing torture, not leaking information, adding, he “would do it all over again.”  CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War Loud and Clear Link to Richard Grove's Autonomy Course TakeHumanAction.com Donate at the Libertarian Institute Pete's Link to Sign Up for the LP Lions of Liberty Podcast Pete's Patreon Pete's Books on Amazon Pete's Books Available for Crypto Pete on Facebook Pete on Twitter

Last month, The Intercept's research editor Margot Williams reported from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay during an extraordinary moment in the 40th pre-trial hearing for the five men accused of plotting 9/11. The men are being charged with crimes that can result in the death penalty and pre-trial hearings have been continuing in this case since 2012. During this hearing, the architect of the CIA's torture program, Dr. James Mitchell, was brought to the war court as a witness. This was the first time that Mitchell appeared in open court. Williams describes her reporting trip, Mitchell's testimony, and how the legacy of CIA torture, with FBI complicity, has marred every aspect of the 9/11 case for nearly eight years.

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Perhaps the most insidious rewriting of recent history by Hollywood is Zero Dark Thirty‘s narrative that torture helped find Bin...

Perhaps the most insidious rewriting of recent history by Hollywood is Zero Dark Thirty‘s narrative that torture helped find Bin...

Patt Morrison talks with American screenwriter, producer, and director Scott Z. Burns on his latest film "The Report".

As Washington D.C. remains focused on the Trump impeachment, Daniel Jones, the former top Senate Intelligence Committee investigator into the CIA torture program discusses the years-long battle with the Bush and Obama administrations to make public the findings of his still-classified 7,000 page report. Jones, the subject of the new feature film, The Report, starring Adam Driver and Annette Bening, discusses his findings. He tells the story of how the CIA, under John Brennan, spied on the Senate investigators and accessed their classified computers. As a rebellion in Iraq forces the resignation of the country’s prime minister, Iraqi activist Raed Jarrar describes the roots of the protests, the impact of foreign intervention by numerous countries, and the history of the U.S. encouraging sectarianism in Iraq. Plus, "Bigger Than Baghdad" — we hear new music from Iraqi-Canadian hip-hop artist Narcy about the protests in Iraq.

Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, John Kiriakou was named Chief of Counterterrorist Operations in Pakistan. On January 25, 2013, Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months in prison for blowing the whistle on acts torture by the CIA.

By scouring the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report and some declassified CIA documents, reporter Jeff Kaye has confirmed that there were two separate rendition, detention and interrogation programs run by separate branches of the agency’s Counterterrorism Center. The first, which we refer to as “Program A” in this podcast, is already known. Consultants James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were paid over $80 million , we are told, to reverse-engineer torture techniques from the military’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program  designed to train troops and spies to resist torture. Kaye builds a strong case that this effort amounted to human experimentation — for the purpose of designed to  identifying the most effective torture techniques. “Program B” relied on “standard” interrogation tactics that included some forms of coercive interrogation, and it was not subject to the management and monitoring systems of the first one. Kaye says the separate programs were “stovepiped” so that front-line personnel assigned to one program didn’t know about the other. But top CIA management, —including current director Gina Haspel, former director George Tenet, and top lieutenants Cofer Black and Jose Rodriguez  —, had to have known about both programs., Kaye argues.   Dr. Jeff Kaye is a retired psychologist who has been practicing journalism for 15 years. His report on the two programs is here, and the article on Gina Haspel’s role at three CIA“black” sites is here.

The debate over Gina Haspel running the CIA has, like most things, devolved into a partisan political debate: The usual tribes, the usual sides, and the usual arguments. But if we can only step back a bit, we see that it’s so much more. It goes to the heart of who we are as a nation, as a moral society, and whether we can ever again be that shining city on a hill. As the nomination becomes closer to a vote in the Senate, we’re going to talk about it with John Kiriakou, who was the first member of the intelligence community to expose the CIA’s use of torture, and as a result, became one of the very few Americans ever prosecuted under the Espionage Act, for which he served 23 months in federal prison. My WhoWhatWhy.org conversation with John Kiriakou.

In spite of a Senate hearing in which Gina Haspel repeatedly evaded tough questions about her views on torture, it appears that she will be confirmed as the new CIA director. Enough senators were apparently mollified by her qualified assurances that there will be no more “enhanced interrogation” at the spy agency on her watch. But John Kiriakou, who as a CIA insider exposed the original torture program in — and ironically was the only government official who went to prison over the issue — thinks that Haspel is actually a true believer in torture. In his conversation with WhoWhatWhy's Jeff Schechtman, he reminds us of all the opportunities she has had to renounce torture and the torture regime she presided over. Had she done so, Haspel could have changed her legacy, as well as the legacy of those who supported her in her efforts. But time and again she chose not to. Kiriakou is still surprised by how few people have come forward to speak out against what happened. He believes that there are still many in the agency who want to recapture its vaunted “cowboy authority.” Even as director of the CIA, Kiriakou says, Haspel may not be able to turn the clock back to 2001. But with Trump egging her on, anything can happen. And if the CIA does resume torture of any kind, the senators who voted for Haspel will shoulder part of the blame and should be held to account.

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Dreem2Reality Entertainment proudly presents the Think Tank Podcast, pre-recorded from the D2R Studios! On today's show: Ryan is in studio for an interesting episode about CIA torture methods with a specific focus on the music used while torturing to get certain suspects, prisoners, terrorists, etc. to divulge information to their captors. Just to clarify, this episode is NOT intended to torture the listener, as most songs are decent songs on their own, but, when played repeatedly, for hours or even days on end at high volumes, could be considered torturous. In any event, these are allegedly some of the songs used by the CIA during torture. Enjoy! Please SUBSCRIBE to the D2R Podcast Network on iTunes and don't forget to RATE and REVIEW while you're there. Or, find the D2R Podcast Network on Stitcher or the Podbean app. Just simply download the Stitcher or Podbean app to your device and then search: D2R Podcast Network and SUBSCRIBE! It's really that easy! If you enjoy listening to Think Tank Podcast, then SPREAD THE WORD to everyone you know! Your word of mouth is our only advertising and we truly appreciate your support! Thanks for listening and SHARE!

Dreem2Reality Entertainment proudly presents the Think Tank Podcast, pre-recorded from the D2R Studios! On today's show: Ryan is in studio for an interesting episode about CIA torture methods with a specific focus on the music used while torturing to get certain suspects, prisoners, terrorists, etc. to divulge information to their captors. Just to clarify, this episode is NOT intended to torture the listener, as most songs are decent songs on their own, but, when played repeatedly, for hours or even days on end at high volumes, could be considered torturous. In any event, these are allegedly some of the songs used by the CIA during torture. Enjoy! Please SUBSCRIBE to the D2R Podcast Network on iTunes and don't forget to RATE and REVIEW while you're there. Or, find the D2R Podcast Network on Stitcher or the Podbean app. Just simply download the Stitcher or Podbean app to your device and then search: D2R Podcast Network and SUBSCRIBE! It's really that easy! If you enjoy listening to Think Tank Podcast, then SPREAD THE WORD to everyone you know! Your word of mouth is our only advertising and we truly appreciate your support! Thanks for listening and SHARE!

University of Birmingham’s Adam Quinn sits down with Scott Lucas and Christalla Yakinthou to discuss the important issue of the week. Finally back to the 2 topics, 1 number podcasts! This week we discuss the disappearances of student protestors in Mexico. We have a triumphant return of the ever popular number of the week segment. […]

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

This week, James and Colin cover Madonna falling, the blue/black or white/gold dress (IT'S BLUE!!!), Natalie Bennett's carcrash radio interview, dancing lollipop men being banned, Kim Kardashian's bum, songs used by the CIA for torture and music from awesome band Culann.

Shortly before Christmas the Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate published an extraordinary and explosive document, universally referred to as the Torture Report, accusing the CIA of brutality in its treatment of prisoners detained in what George W. Bush had called the "War on Terror". The report debunks the CIA's claims that its "enhanced interrogation techniques" produced important intelligence. These techniques include practices such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and sexual humiliation. The simple message for many who've read the report: torture doesn't work. What was published represents a fraction of the Senate's findings after an investigation lasting more than five years. The 600 or so pages now available online are merely a summary of the full 6,700 page report that remains classified. And much of the 600 pages is illegible, because of redactions in the form of thick, black lines, some of which were demanded by Britain's intelligence services. In The Report this week Simon Cox asks to what extent Britain's intelligence services were complicit in the mistreatment of prisoners; and why Britain has been dragging its heels in carrying out its own investigation into allegations of mistreatment. He traces the history of British investigations: a discredited investigation by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC) in 2007 on extraordinary rendition from which it was later discovered that the intelligence services withheld information; the promise by David Cameron of a judge-led inquiry in 2010, which was subsequently scrapped; and handing back of the torture enquiry to the ISC, which Mr Cameron himself had said was not the appropriate body to carry out this investigation. Simon will also look what appears to be a consistent tactic of successive British governments to avoid embarrassing details coming to light by claiming that publication would damage relations with the United States, or damage national security. It's a claim rejected by human rights agencies who defend alleged victims of torture, as well as by senior politicians. "National security often just means national embarrassment," says one. Contributors to the programme include a man who claims he was illegally rendered with British complicity; a member of the judge-led inquiry into torture that was subsequently scrapped; and members of the ISC, now charged with carrying out an investigation. The alleged abuse is historical. But it acquired contemporary resonance last week when it was reported that one of the alleged perpetrators of the Paris murders had been radicalised by the images of detainees being tortured by US operatives at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Producer: Tim Mansell.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

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Last week's report on the CIA is hardly the last word on America's harsh interrogation tactics in the aftermath of September 11. Even former CIA agents disagree. And the Obama White House is using the same legal authority to justify drone strikes against suspected terrorists.

 Welcome to Our Own Voices Live with your hosts: Angela Thomas & Rodney Smith Our Topic(s) today: “Is this the beginning of a modern day civil rights movement & CIA Torture report  Dec 12, 2014.” If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (347) 826-9600

So That Happened, Episode 13: The CIA Torture Report Was A Chronicle Of Depravity And Incompetence This week, the Senate's report on CIA torture was released into the wild, and while the redactions were thick, it nevertheless read as a thoroughgoing chronicle of depravity and incompetence that will, at the very least, ruin hummus forever. National security reporter Ali Watkins is here to walk us through the report. Meanwhile, last week we introduced you to the CROMNIBUS -- the lame-duck budget bill that needed to be passed to keep the government working. This week, legislators got lathered up about a Wall Street poison pill that came along with the bill, leading to new fractures and strange alliances that could come to define the legislative fights ahead. And speaking of the CROMNIBUS, the bill also contained language that may scuttle the efforts of the District of Columbia to decriminalize weed. It's another blow to a group of Americans who have never had fair representation in Congress. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After a year long battle the Executive Summary of the CIA Torture report is out. This week we document the reaction & bring you the most relevant information on this story we’ve been following for nearly a year. Plus why the 2015 NDAA is being totally ignored, protests in London & we respond to some lovingly critical listener feedback.

Alex discusses the newly released CIA torture report and asked the question; 'Is anyone really surprised?'

The Senate Intelligence Committee dropped a much-awaited bombshell today: a massive report accusing the CIA of torture and dishonesty during the War in Iraq. We hear details and reaction.

On this week's show, Jerry Robinson provides his insights into the newly released CIA Torture Report. Later, an update for precious metals investors.

Alex discusses the newly released CIA torture report and asked the question; 'Is anyone really surprised?'

THIS WEEK ON BACKROOM POLITICS...BREAKING NEWS...THE SENATE AND SENATE DEMOCRATS RELEASE THE CIA "TORTURE REPORT"....WHAT IS CONTAINED IN THE REPORT... DOES THIS HURT OUR INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY....WHAT IS THE FALL OUT....A NEW YORK CITY GRAND JURY FAILS TO INDICT OFFICERS FOR THE GARNER DEATH ON STATEN ISLAND...IS THIS CONFIMRATION THAT OUR COUNTRY NEEDS BIGGER DIALOUGE ON RACE RELATIONS?...AND ROLLING STONE'S CREDIBILITY IS CALLED INTO QUESTION AFTER A STORY DETAILING SEXUAL ABUSE ON CAMPUS AT UVA...HOW BAD IS THE DAMAGE AND IS THIS A BLOW TO VICTIMS RIGHTS?...THIS AND TELL ME A STORY ON THIS WEEK'S BACKROOM POLITICS!   BACKROOM POLITICS is a weekly political roundtable of former politicos and Washington insiders who believe that political statesmanship and civility trumps the strict party line. Guests on the show include some of the country's top political leaders and thinkers. For the REAL INSIDE THE BELTWAY take on politics as they affect you....listen every week to BACKROOM POLITICS!

This week, after several months of "will-he-or-won't he" wonderings, President Barack Obama went ahead on his own and issued new executive actions to fill the space where a comprehensive immigration reform bill should be. We'll sort this out with HuffPost immigration reporter Elise Foley. Meanwhile, the Senate came one vote shy of approving the Keystone XL pipeline -- all because Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) got the notion that willing the pipeline into existence might rescue her all-but-doomed re-election prospects. HuffPost environmental reporter Kate Sheppard is here with her observations on this strange week in the life of the Keystone debate. Finally, have you heard about this CIA torture report? This long-awaited investigation of the troubled period in the War On Terror was supposed to be nearing its release. But that's now in doubt as legislators and the White House fight over redactions. We'll find out what secrets we can with HuffPost's national security reporter Ali Watkins. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the live run up to Obama’s sales pitch to the nation to go back into Iraq, we analysis the recent developments of ISIS, and dispel common memes being pushed out by the media. Then cover Obama’s speech in real time with our commentary. Plus new leaks from the CIA Torture report suggest the scope of waterboarding and other tactics by the CIA were much more brutal than the public has been lead to believe. Then we end on a surprising high note, and in-depth discussion.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com