btw, forgot to mention:
there is a street called 17th of June in Berlin
"Straße des 17. Juni"
East German uprising of 1953
read about it, very interesting, super inflation etc.
calling out circumlocution on a board dedicated to Q posts. that would be funny if it weren't so stupid.
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F.B.I. Agents Became C.I.A. Operatives in Overseas Prisons - The New …
Nov 19, 2021F.B.I. Agents Became C.I.A. Operatives in Overseas Prisons - The New York Times Advertisement F.B.I. Agents Became C.I.A. Operatives in Secret Overseas Prisons Lawyers disclosed the unusual…
NY Times: F.B.I. Agents Became C.I.A. Operatives in Secret Overseas Prisons
Original NY Times Article
By Carol Rosenberg
Nov. 19, 2021
Torture is a crime on multiple levels, including ratified treaties.
“GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — In the torturous history of the U.S. government’s black sites, the F.B.I. has long been portrayed as acting with a strong moral compass. Its agents, disgusted with the violence they saw at a secret C.I.A. prison in Thailand, walked out, enabling the bureau to later deploy “clean teams” untainted by torture to interrogate the five men accused of conspiring in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
But new information that emerged this week in the Sept. 11 case undermines that F.B.I. narrative. The two intelligence agencies secretly arranged for nine F.B.I. agents to temporarily become C.I.A. operatives in the overseas prison network where the spy agency used torture to interrogate its prisoners.
The once-secret program came to light in pretrial proceedings in the death penalty case. The proceedings are currently examining whether the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 plot, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and his four co-defendants voluntarily confessed after years in the black site network, where detainees were waterboarded, beaten, deprived of sleep and isolated to train them to comply with their captors’ wishes.
At issue is whether the military judge will exclude from the eventual trial the testimony of F.B.I. agents who questioned the defendants in 2007 at Guantánamo and also forbid the use of reports that the agents wrote about each man’s account of his role in the hijacking conspiracy.
A veteran Guantánamo prosecutor, Jeffrey D. Groharing, has called the F.B.I. interrogations “the most critical evidence in this case.” Defense lawyers argue that the interrogations were tainted by the years of torture by U.S. government agents.
In open court on Thursday, another prosecutor, Clayton G. Trivett Jr., confirmed the unusual arrangement, in which nine F.B.I. agents were “formally detailed” to the agency “and thus became a member of the C.I.A. and worked within C.I.A. channels.”
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