Na Ray McGovern, Janairu 12, 2020
daga Consortium News
FJami'in hukumar CIA, Jafrey Sterling, zai karbi lambar yabo ta Sam Adams don nuna gaskiya a cikin wannan Laraba, tare da wasu 17 a baya nasara wanda, kamar Sterling, ya nuna matuƙar sadaukarwa ga gaskiya da bin doka ta hanyar ƙarfin zuciya don busa saƙar da ke faruwa ga kuskuren gwamnati.
Ranar Talata za a yi bikin tunawa da shekaru biyar na farkon fitina na Sterling don leken asiri - irin fitinar da watakila ta bar ko da Franz Kafka, marubucin labarin labari The Trial, mamaki cikin kafirci.
Ana iya samun sahihan farashi don fallasa ɓarna ta hanyar gwamnatocin asirin - musamman waɗanda suka tona asirin 'yan jaridu har zuwa inda ba su iya fuskantar haɗari yayin da suka ɗauki' yanci da doka. Tabbatar da wannan gaskiyar a bayyane yake, ba shakka, tana ɗaya daga cikin manufofin gwamnatin Amurka na sanya ɓarnuwa kamar Sterling a kurkuku - don kada wasu su sami ra'ayin da za su iya busa sa da tserewa tare da shi.
Tare da lambar yabo ta Sam Adams, Sterling ya kawo adadin adadin masu karɓar lambar yabo da aka ɗaure a kurkuku saboda ɓarna da cin mutuncin gwamnati (ba a kirga 2013 Sam Adams ba, Ed Snowden, wanda ba shi da halin zama a ƙasar Rasha kuma ya shafe shekaru shida). Mafi muni, Julian Assange (2010) da Chelsea Manning (2014) suna tsare a kurkuku, inda Babban Jami'in Majalisar Dinkin Duniya na musamman kan azabtarwa Nils Melzer ya ce ana azabtar da su.
Wanda ya karɓi kyautar Sam Adams a shekara ta 2016, John Kiriakou, wanda ya yi wa kansa ɗaurin shekara biyu a kurkuku saboda yin magana game da azabtar da Amurka, za ta kasance cikin waɗanda za su yi maraba da bikin Sterling a bikin ranar Laraba. Dukansu an la'ance su da tausayin alkali Leonie Brinkema - wanda akafi sani da "alkali mai ratayewa" na gundumar sada zumunta ta Gabas ta Virginia, inda aka kuma tabbatar da Assange a karkashin Dokar Yakin Duniya na I Espionage wanda aka yi amfani da shi wajen yanke hukuncin Sterling.
An yi kuskuren kiran shari'ar Sterling "ɓarna" na adalci. Ba ɓarna ba, zubar da ciki ne. Ni mai gani ne da shi.
Shekaru biyar da suka wuce, yayin da Kafka ke yin dogon inuwa, na zauna a cikin shari'ar Sterling tare da wasu abokan aiki da ke cike da takaici game da irin Sarauniya-Zukatattun 'Batun adalci' Brinkema na iya aiki. Abin ba in ciki, ta wuce tsammaninmu - bakin ciki kamar yadda suke. Amma game da Sterling, ya san cewa ba shi da laifi. Ya bi ka’idojin ta hanyar zuwa hukumomin da ke kula da majalissar dokokin da aka ware don keɓaɓɓun bayanai don fallasa ayyukan ɓoye abubuwan da ba kawai marasa aikin yi ba amma har da haɗari. Don haka, ya aminta da cewa za a tabbatar da gaskiyarsa - duk da “alkalin rataye,” alkalin alkalai, da kuma Dokar satar zartarwa.
Ya san ba shi da laifi, amma a kwanakin nan sanin ku ba shi da laifi zai iya haifar da yanayin rashin tsaro da kuma yarda da kai. Sterling ya ɗauka - daidai, ya juya - cewa gwamnati ba za ta iya gabatar da hujjoji masu ƙwarin gwiwa a kansa ba. A cikin waɗannan halayen zai ba shi ma'ana a gare shi ya yarda da irin fatawar ciniki da aka saba yi a irin waɗannan halayen. A bayyane yake, babban amincinsa ga tsarin shari'armu ya ɓace. Ta yaya zai iya sanin cewa za a iya yi masa shari'a, a yanke masa hukunci, a tura shi kurkuku ba tare da wata hujja ba sai "metadata"; watau, abun ciki, ƙasa da hujja.
Labari mai dadi shine cewa lokacin kurkuku Sterling yanzu yana bayan sa. Shi da matar sa, Holly za su dawo wannan makon a Washington, duk da haka a takaice, tare da abokai da masoya wadanda ke da sha'awar murnar amincin da shi da Holly suka nuna a cikin waɗannan shekaru biyar masu zafi da suka gabata.
'Spyan leken asiri da ba a so: Tsanantawar Tsintsiyar Amurka
Wannan shine taken Sterling wanda ya bayar da kyakkyawan ambatonsa da ya buga a ƙarshen bazara. Istan gwagwarmaya / marubuci David Swanson, wanda shi ma ya halarci shari'ar, ya rubuta na farkon review don Amazon; ya yi masa lakabi da "Kasance tare da CIA: Yi Tafiya da Duniya Ya Kawo Nuclear Blueprints." (gargadi: Kafin ku karanta maganganun hangen nesa na Swanson, za ku iya so ku kasance “a shirye da katinku / ki a shirye” domin da wuya ku iya tsayayya da sha'awar yin odar.)
Karin bayani akan Sterling sigar The Trial ana iya samunsa cikin bargo, ɗaukar hoto na zamani Consortium News ya ba ta shekaru biyar da suka gabata. Daga baya, (a ranar Maris 2, 2018) Ƙungiya An buga abin da ya kasance mafi zurfin tunani da dabaru na duka-duka da aka sanyawa suna Operation Merlin caper don tarko Iran - an Labari ta hanyar bayar da lambar yabo ga mai ba da rahoto mai bincike Gareth Porter mai taken "Yadda 'Operation Merlin' ke cutar da Sirrin Amurka akan Iran."
Abun Porter ya wuce “asusun wasan ƙwallon kwando 'na wasu bala'o'i na sirri da ke faruwa da ke tattare da bayanan Amurka a cikin shekaru XNUMX da suka gabata. Maimakon haka, tabbataccen hukunci ne na irin dimbin masu kishin da ke aiki da CIA a waccan zamanin da kuma bayar da gudummawarsu ga manyan manufofi kamar Isra’ila Lobby a kokarin samar da hoton “Macijin-Maci-Wen” - takwaran na wanda aka yiwa rauni har zuwa "Gaskata" yaƙi a kan Iraq.
Tabbas, sanannu ne cewa Isra'ila tana son Shugaba George W. Bush da Mataimakin Shugaban Dick Cheney suyi "Iran" da farko, kafin su kai wa Iraki hari. Masu ba da shawara ga Bush suna ta harbi a kirjinsu suna ihu suna cewa, "Mazaje maza suna zuwa Tehran."
A ra'ayina, shuwagabannin leken asirin, waɗanda suka ba wa wannan aika-aika kuma suka sanya “hankali” don taimakawa, su ne waɗanda ya kamata a jefa su cikin kurkuku - ba ’yan kishin ƙasa kamar Sterling ba, waɗanda suka yi ƙoƙarin fallasa wautar. Abubuwan da masu binciken Porter ya danganta game da "gubar da leken asirin Amurka akan Iran" suna da babban tasiri a yau. Shin za mu iya yin amfani da kimar da "leken asiri" da aka yi amfani da ita don ba da hujjar kiyayya da Amurka ga Iran? Porter ɗin yanki dole ne a karanta a cikin kwanakin nan na gwagwarmaya mai ban tsoro da Teheran.
Ya tashi. (Wikipedia)
Gwajin Sterling ya haɗa da abubuwan abubuwa na farce da wasan kwaikwayo. A cikin misalai biyun, CIA ta fito da kebul na USB na asali da aka zaɓa a hankali don tabbatar da cewa Sterling yana da laifin ɗora bayanan abubuwan da suka faru ga Iran ɗin da ke shirin Operation Merlin, makircin CIA don amfani da keken Rasha don ƙaddamar da ƙirar makaman nukiliya. makami, wanda aka yi niyyar lalata shirin nukiliyar Iran.
Tabbas an gyara igiyoyin. Amma, alas, bai isa ba don ɓoye abin da alama alama ce mai mahimmanci ga labarin Merlin - wato Iraƙi, da Iran, suna cikin tsallake-tsallake ayyukan Merlin. Ba tare da wata damuwa ba, kafofin watsa labarun sun rasa wannan, amma Swanson, wanda ya halarci wasu daga cikin shari'ar, ya bincika ɗayan igiyoyin da aka gabatar a matsayin shaida kuma ya gano cewa an sake daidaita shi da sauri. Inspector Clouseau, da kansa, ya iya gano wasu mahimman kalmomin ƙarƙashin ma'amala.
Swanson ne ya buga labarin binciken a karkashin taken: "A Sanar da Jeff Sterling, CIA ta Bayyana fiye da yadda ta tuhume shi da Bayyanar." Yankin Swanson ya bayyana.
Masu neman gaskiya ne kawai game da Operation Merlin. Duk abin da ake buƙata don Swanson shine (1) don kula da ko adalci, ko zubar da ciki game da adalci, yana gab da faruwa, kuma (2) don aiwatar da wasu abubuwan kasuwanci na yau da kullun don aikin bincike da bincike na hankali.
Waɗanda ke da ciki mai ƙarfi waɗanda ba su yi karatun babi na Operation Merlin ba a cikin Risen's Jihar War, ana karfafa su sosai don yin hakan. Bangaren Risen zai samar wa masu karatu karin dandano mai kyau game da dalilin da yasa masu gabatar da kararrakin ayyukan CIA da suka kware wajen gudanar da ayyukanta masu matukar tayar da hankali game da wahayin sannan kuma sun damu da ra'ayin cewa ana iya samun karin lefuka har sai wani - kowa - zai iya gurbata, zargi, da kurkuku.
Kafka Inuwa 'Gwajin' na Sterling
Tare da wasa-da-wasa game da tuhumar da aka yi wa Sterling, dalilan da ke bayansu, da kuma yadda gwamnati za ta iya daure shi bisa abubuwan metadata-sans-da sauran bayanan da ke samuwa ga masu sha'awar karin bayyani, bari in kara dan launi dangane da babban abu game da fitinar da kanta —nadodin gwajin, idan zakuyi.
Yanayin ya mika wuya. An fara shari’ar ne a ranar 14 ga Janairu, 2015 tare da shaidun da ke magana daga bayan allon tsayi mai tsayin kafa 12, wani nau’in misalan hayaki da madubin da za mu fallasa mu. Ba shi yiwuwa a samu The Trial Na Kafka daga raina. A cikin labarin Kafka mai ba da labari mai taken, "Joseph K.", yana da ma'anar shiga tarko - na kasancewar wani mahaluki a hannun wata “Kotun.” (Kafka ya kasance ma'aikacin gwamnati ne a Hapsburg Austria tare da cikakkiyar damar A lura da ayyukan bureaucracy a aikace, wani yanki da ya rage girma cikin labari.)
The Trial ya nuna doka, tsarin mulki, da na zamantakewa da ke tafiyar da 'yancin kowa. "Yusufu K." ba shi da wani laifi; duk da wannan, an kama shi an kashe shi. Abin da ya fi muni shi ne, duk haruffan da ke cikin littafin - ciki har da ƙarshe Mista K. - sun sunkuyar da kansu cikin murabus, suna ɗaukar wannan a matsayin al'ada, idan rashin alheri ne, yanayin al'amura.
Ta yaya mutum zai fassara The Trial don makarantar sakandare ko ɗaliban kwaleji, na yi tunani a kaina. Binciken Google samu jagorar koyarwa zuwa littafin daga Random House.
Ta yaya malamai zasu shawo kan wasu daga cikin manyan matsalolin da aka gabatar a ciki? The Trial? Na farko, yi ƙoƙarin "gani a cikin yanayin wahayi na ɗan adam matsala ta mutum wanda kowa zai iya gano shi tare da: yadda za a kare kai daga hukuma mai ƙarfi." Yayi kyau. Amma a cikin The Trial ba wai kawai mutanen kirki ba zasu yi nasara ba, amma babu mutanen kirki - babu haruffan halaye masu kyau a cikin wannan labarin mai cike da ban tsoro. Kuma - mafi muni har yanzu - babu ƙaunar ƙauna.
Anan ne fitinar Sterling ta fara daga Kafka. Akwai abubuwa da yawa da za'a kayatar dasu a shari'ar Sterling. Abubuwan halayya masu kyau suna da yawa, na farko kuma mafi mahimmanci, Sterling da matar sa mai ban haushi Holly. Wannan ba Hapsburg Austria bane, amma Amurka ta Amurka; wannan fitinar ba al'ada ce ba; Basu sakin; babu mai sunkuyar da kai.
Kuma ba su da abokai. Bamu rasa cikakkun bayanai game da lalatattun hanyoyin korafe korafe, matsorata. Kuma game da ƙauna ta ƙauna - ba kasafai nake lura da irin wannan misalin nuna ƙauna ta yau da kullun da taimakon juna ba. Holly koyaushe yana can. Babu yadda za a yi kisan kai kamar Kafka's "Joseph K.," Sterling tsaye ya tabbatar da amincinsa - kuma abokan aikinsa zasu girmama shi a wannan makon. Yana da Kafka babu.
Manyan 'yan wasan da suka yi fice a ciki da zage damtse Sterlings sun cimma daidaito. A ƙasan kowane irin yanayi, yanayin ayyukan CIA a mafi munin yanayi ya fallasa.
Conmen & Condoleezza
Ya kasance mai ban sha'awa, idan ba damuwa ba, kallon a kotu (ko lokacin da an rufe shi ta hanyar babban allo, kawai don sauraron su) ga ma'aikatan ofisoshin CIA daga gefen ayyukan hukumar suna aiwatar da kasuwancin su ga abin da kamar ba a tsammani ba ne, kuma ba a sa ido ba - ko masu gabatar da kara, ko alƙali, ko masu yanke hukunci. Wadannan ma’aikatan sune, bayan haka, “jami’in shari’a”; abin da suke samu na kasuwanci yana jawo mutane ne ko dai a kotu, ko a kan tudu, ko kuma tare da wani gidan rediyo da ya shahara sosai.
Kasashen waje, ba shakka, suna amfani da ingantattun azaman wayoyi don mamaye baƙi zuwa cikin cin amanar ƙasarsu. A lokacin gwajin Sterling, fasahar su ta kasance cikakke a cikin gida. Abin da ya rage ba a sani ba shi ne, ko makasudin farfajiyar gidan da suka kware da daukar ma'aikata sun san cewa ana tsare da su. Kasani ko a'a, jami'an shari'ar CIA sun gina ingantaccen hadin kai a gaban alkali da alkalai.
A ranar karshe ta shari’ar, gwamnati ta shigo da wasu manyan makaryata-manyan-manyan-mutane domin burge masu yanke hukunci tare da rufe shari’ar tasu. A wannan lokacin da kafofin watsa labaru suka halarci sosai, kamar yadda duchess-of the mush-cloud-cloud, tsohon sakataren gwamnati kuma mai ba da shawara kan tsaro na kasa Condoleezza Rice stiletto-heeled a cikin kotun don yin shaida a kan Sterling. Daga murmurewa a bayyane ta ke har yanzu tana suturta ta sosai - idan ƙamshi ce - Teflon.
Ya kasance, wanda zai iya faɗi, "rawar jiki da tsoro" na wani nau'in. Babu wanda ke cikin taron da ya firgita da ya yi tsokaci a kan sakamakon karya da Rice ta fada shekaru masu yawa kafin ta “ba da gaskiya” kan mummunan bala'in da za a yi wa Iraki, ko kuma yayin taron gabatarwar White House da ta gabatar wa dan takaitaccen bayanin manyan jami'an tsaron kasar game da azabtar CIA. dabaru don samun sayan su sannan kuma su tabbatar da cewa ba za su iya yin laifi ba. (Magana game da taƙaitattun bayanan macabre, sannan-Attorney General John Ashcroft sharhi, "Tarihi ba zai tausaya mana ba." Abin baƙin ciki, waɗanda ke da hannu har yanzu suna samun nasara da shi.
Ina zaune a ƙarshen tarko kamar yadda Rice ta matso kusa da ita, sai ta juyo da murmushi fuska-rai a gare ni. A cikin amsawa, ba zan iya tsayayya da raɗaɗin wata kalma mai saƙa guda ɗaya na “mai aikawa ba.” A cikin rashin jin daɗi, ta yi murmushi duk da haka.
Har ila yau, shaida a waccan rana ta karshe shi ne William Harlow, babban sakataren CIA a karkashin daraktan "slam-dunk" George Tenet, wanda a karkashin jagorancinsa "Operation Merlin" aka ɗauki cikinsa kuma aka aiwatar da shi. Baya ga litattafan rubutun fatalwa da Tenet da makamantansu, da'awar Harlow zuwa shahara ya kasance cikin nasarar fitar da kafofin watsa labarai daga ainihin rubutaccen gaskiyar cewa Iraki ba ta da WMD kafin a kai mata hari a kan Maris 20, 2003.
A ranar 24 ga Fabrairu, 2003, Newsweek Ya buga wani rahoto na musamman wanda John Barry ya wallafa bisa sigar bayanan jami'an binciken Majalisar Dinkin Duniya game da cinikin Hussein Kamel, surukin Saddam Hussein. Kamel ya kasance mai kula da shirye-shiryen makaman nukiliya, sunadarai, da na makamai masu guba da makamai masu linzami don isar da irin wadannan makaman. Kamel ya tabbatar wa masu tambayoyinsa cewa duka an lalace. (A wata al'ada rashin fahimta, NewsweekBarry ya yi sharhi, "Labarin mai kawo canji ya haifar da tambayoyi game da ko kifayen WMD da aka alaƙa da Iraki har yanzu suna nan.")
Barry ya kara da cewa CIA, bayanan leken asirin Biritaniya, da kuma wani jami’in binciken binciken Majalisar Dinkin Duniya sun yi ma Kamel tambayoyi a cikin zaman na daban. wancan Newsweek ya kasance yana iya tabbatar da cewa kundin MDD ya kasance ingantacce, kuma Kamel ya "fada irin labarin ga CIA da Burtaniya." A takaice, an riga an tabbatar da sigar binciken Barry. Kuma CIA ta sani da tabbacin cewa abin da Kamel ya fada a 1995 shi ne har yanzu gaskiya ne a cikin 2003. Shaida takaddama - mai yuwuwar jefa bom. Ta yaya wannan tasirin zai yi niyyar kai wa Iraki hari wata guda?
Harlow ya tashi zuwa wurin. Lokacin da kafofin watsa labarai suka tambaye shi game da rahoton Barry, shi kira shi "Ba daidai ba ne, arya, ba daidai ba, ba gaskiya ba." Kuma kafofin watsa labaru na al'ada sun ce, a cikin sakamako, "Oh, Gosh. Na gode da sanar da mu. Wataƙila za mu ba da labari a kan haka. ”
Ba ni bane da zan fara ba da haushi. Na ban ban da Harlow. Bayan ya ba da shaida sai ya lura cewa kujerar da babu kowa a ɗakin kotun ita ce wadda ke kusa da ni. "Barka dai, Ray," in ji shi, yayin da ya sauka daga kan kujera. Ba na son ƙirƙirar wani yanayi, don haka na rubuta kuma na wuce shi wannan bayanin:
"Newsweek, Fabrairu 24, 2003, Hussein Kamel ya bayar da rahoto game da rahoton bayan rashin jituwarsa a 1995:" Na ba da umarnin rushe duk WMD. "
Harlow ya ce labarin Newsweek "ba daidai bane, bogus, ba daidai ba, ba gaskiya ba."
Sojojin Amurka 4,500 suka mutu. Maƙaryaci. ”
Harlow ya karanta bayanin kula na, ya ba ni Condoleezza Rice mai farin ciki murmushi, ya ce, "Ina farin cikin ganin ki, Ray."
Tunatarwa daga Ubangiji Acton, dan siyasa karni na 19 kuma dan tarihi: “Duk abin da yake ɓoye, har da gudanar da adalci.”
Da ke ƙasa akwai rubutun lafazin da ya haɗa da kyautar ga Jeffrey Sterling:
Ray McGovern yana aiki ne don Ka faɗi Kalmar, ƙungiyar buga littattafan cocin Ecumenical na Mai Ceto a cikin garin Washington na ciki. Ya kasance jami'in soja / jami'in leken asiri sannan kuma mai nazarin CIA tsawon shekaru 30 kuma ya gudanar da jawabai na kai-tsaye na mutum game da Takaitaccen Bayanin Shugaban Kasa a lokacin gwamnatin Reagan ta farko. A lokacin ritaya ya kirkiro alswararrun encewararrun encewararrun encewararrun Sanwararru don Sanity (VIPS).
