NBC News yesterday called her a “key apologist” for the CIA’s torture program. A follow-up New Yorker article dubbed her “The Unidentified Queen of Torture” and in part “the model for the lead character in ‘Zero Dark Thirty.’” Yet in both articles she was anonymous.
The person described by both NBC and The New Yorker is senior CIA officer Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. Multiple news outlets have reported that as the result of a long string of significant errors and malfeasance, her competence and integrity are doubted — even by some within the agency. (...)
From the bowels of a New Yorker article quoted in the above:
The intelligence officials evidently pressed K.S.M. so hard to confirm this, under such physical duress, that he eventually did, even though it was false—leading U.S. officials on a wild-goose chase for black Muslim Al Qaeda operatives in Montana.
NBC News yesterday called her a “key apologist” for the CIA’s torture program. A follow-up New Yorker article dubbed her “The Unidentified Queen of Torture” and in part “the model for the lead character in ‘Zero Dark Thirty.’” Yet in both articles she was anonymous.
The person described by both NBC and The New Yorker is senior CIA officer Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. Multiple news outlets have reported that as the result of a long string of significant errors and malfeasance, her competence and integrity are doubted — even by some within the agency. (...)
Janeane Garofalo/Ben Stiller: chapter from the Feel This Audiobook
Sesame Street: theme song
David Gray: Babylon
AC/DC: Shoot to Thrill, Hell’s Bells
Bee Gees: Stayin’ Alive
Tupac: All Eyez On Me
Christina Aguilera: Dirrty
Neil Diamond: America
Rage Against the Machine: unspecified songs
Don McLean: American Pie
Saliva: Click Click Boom
Matchbox Twenty: Cold
(hed)pe: Swan Dive
Prince: Raspberry Beret
They could save a lot of time by just playing any David Byrnes song. And besides that list looks like what most stations torture us americans with every day.
I finally removed my listing on Craigslist when I was trying to sell living room furniture. The only replies I got were from scammers. The scam was always the same: I want the item, I'll pay full price, I can't come to see it myself but will send someone to come and pick it up for me, give me all of your PayPal, bank, personal information and it's a done deal. Even Craigslist has a page describing how this scam works: the scammer comes and takes your stuff and then cancels their payment either through your bank or through Paypal, and you're stuff is long gone.
The way to combat this is to insist in both your ad and in any communications with people who respond to your ad that you meet IN PERSON to make the deal and that you won't settle for anything less. That usually sends the scammers away. However, like I said, the only responses I had to my ad were from scammers, not a single real person showed interest. I won't use Craigslist again for this reason.
How did you finally get rid of the furniture? I really don't need 2 antique oak dining tables.
Plus I've got a bunch of silverware to get rid of(don't wanna put that on Craigslist). I'm more of a plastic fork over the sink type guy.
Do these numbnuts get their jollies making appointments to pick something up, only to be never heard from again?
I finally removed my listing on Craigslist when I was trying to sell living room furniture. The only replies I got were from scammers. The scam was always the same: I want the item, I'll pay full price, I can't come to see it myself but will send someone to come and pick it up for me, give me all of your PayPal, bank, personal information and it's a done deal. Even Craigslist has a page describing how this scam works: the scammer comes and takes your stuff and then cancels their payment either through your bank or through Paypal, and you're stuff is long gone.
The way to combat this is to insist in both your ad and in any communications with people who respond to your ad that you meet IN PERSON to make the deal and that you won't settle for anything less. That usually sends the scammers away. However, like I said, the only responses I had to my ad were from scammers, not a single real person showed interest. I won't use Craigslist again for this reason.
