The Watchdogs Didn't Bark by Ray Nowosielski

Author:Ray Nowosielski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hot Books
Published: 2018-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

The facts as reported were, in fact, incorrect. The viable intelligence gained from Zubaydah was the product of Soufan’s classic techniques, not the torture experiments being run by the CIA and their contractors.

“It was all a lie from the very beginning,” John Kiriakou tells us, ready to jump out of his chair. He had learned this much later. “They were lying even internally!”

Taking a more thoughtful tone, he continued, “I would like to see the raw cable traffic that was coming back from the ‘Abu Zubaydah compartment’ [in Thailand run by Jen Matthews], and then I would like to see the analytic products prepared for the White House [by Alec Station and Alfreda Bikowsky]. Because that’s where the lie would take place.”

“If the raw traffic were telling us one thing and the analytic products going to the White House were telling something different, the responsibility for that would fall to Alec Station and CTC leadership,” he continues. “Whispers in the hall [at CIA] are one thing, but it’s another thing to report to the president that he cracked after one time. I would like to know from those blue-border analytic products what they were telling the White House?”

The Washington Post ran an article in 1968 with a photo on the front page.70 It showed an American soldier waterboarding a North Vietnamese soldier. The story caused the Defense Department to conduct an investigation. The soldier was arrested, court-martialed, and tried for torture, resulting in a guilty verdict and the man’s incarceration. “Why was waterboarding illegal—and torture—in 1968, but it’s not illegal—and torture—in 2002?” asks John Kiriakou. “The law hasn’t changed. The law is still on the books. Somehow,” he concluded, “September 11th seems to have changed our government’s notion of what ought to be prosecuted.”

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Inside the J. Edgar Hoover Building on July 2, it is likely that Pat D’Amuro briefed Robert Mueller and Bush’s attorney general on his FBI teams’ determination of “incontrovertible evidence that there is support for these terrorists within the Saudi Government.” After the CIA had monitored Osama Basnan receiving a large sum of money from one of the Saudi ruler’s entourage in Houston that spring, it appears San Diego FBI agents searched Basnan’s home. There, they had found copies of thirty-one cashier’s checks from the period February 22, 1999–May 30, 2002, the time when the hijackers’ plot had determined to be in motion, totaling $74,000. They were all from a Riggs Bank account of the wife of none other than the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar. As a personal friend of the American president’s family, it was no doubt recognized that this was extremely sensitive territory.

The checks had been written to Basnan’s wife, and the FBI had determined that a standing order once existed on Princess Bandar’s account that began in January 1999 to send $2,000 a month to Mrs. Basnan. It was further discovered that the wife of Basnan’s San Diego associate Omar al Bayoumi had also attempted to deposit in her own account three checks written to Mrs.

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