I found a Foreign Policy report on CIA torture, linked via RealClear Investigations, in my spam box. (That spam box is in my encrypted Protonmail account, but Google has the password.)
Foreign Policy story on CIA torture
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/14/guantanamo-torture-afghanistan-pakistan-ahmed-rabbani-no-charge-trial-biden-obama-trump-reprieve/
As I worked on this post, my non-subscriber status was invoked, thus preventing further access to the incriminating deletion.
Basic data on Fatima Bhutto's report
Censor's hand shown:
Closeup of axed section:
Senate CIA torture report
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf
I suppose we are left to infer that the excerpts came from classified sections of the Senate intelligence committee report. But, no statement to that effect is found with the Foreign Policy story. More importantly, the press is not bound by classification rules -- though the System is currently trying to criminalize the publishing of secrets, as we see from the CIA vendetta against Julian Assange.
In the CIA drone atrocities scandal, the whistleblower was given a stiff prison term. It remains to be seen which editors and reporters will be indicted for defying the CIA's self-styled supremacy over freedom of information in a democracy.
Foreign Policy story on CIA torture
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/14/guantanamo-torture-afghanistan-pakistan-ahmed-rabbani-no-charge-trial-biden-obama-trump-reprieve/
As I worked on this post, my non-subscriber status was invoked, thus preventing further access to the incriminating deletion.
Basic data on Fatima Bhutto's report
Nothing but Pitch Black DarknessAll photos in the article were reproduced while I was reading the article today -- except for one containing excerpts from a U.S. Senate report on CIA torture. As the dateline shows, this censorship -- that appears to benefit the CIA -- occurred during Joe Biden's term.
Ahmed Rabbani’s journey through the U.S. dark
prison system to Guantánamo
By Fatima Bhutto
AUGUST 14, 2021, 3:20 AM
Censor's hand shown:
Closeup of axed section:
The green graphic indicates that the photo has been removed -- possibly by the server or possibly by the magazine itself.
Senate CIA torture report
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf
I suppose we are left to infer that the excerpts came from classified sections of the Senate intelligence committee report. But, no statement to that effect is found with the Foreign Policy story. More importantly, the press is not bound by classification rules -- though the System is currently trying to criminalize the publishing of secrets, as we see from the CIA vendetta against Julian Assange.
In the CIA drone atrocities scandal, the whistleblower was given a stiff prison term. It remains to be seen which editors and reporters will be indicted for defying the CIA's self-styled supremacy over freedom of information in a democracy.
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