NaRay McGovern, Ndira 12, 2020
From Consortium News
FOrmer CIA inoshanda officer Jeffrey Sterling anozogamuchira Sam Adams Mubairo weUkubatana muhungwaru Chitatu ichi, vachijoinha 17 pakutanga vakundi uyo, saSterling, airatidzira kuzvipira kwakanyanya kuchokwadi nekutonga kwemutemo nekuva neushingi hwekuridza muridzo pamusoro pekutadza kwehurumende.
Chipiri icharatidza zuva rechishanu pagore rekutanga kwekutongwa kwaSterling kwespionage - mhando yemuyedzo ungangodaro wakasiya kunyange Franz Kafka, munyori webhuku renhoroondo Muedzo, vakabatwa nekusatenda.
Panogona kuve nemutengo unorema wakagadzirirwa kuburitsa kushungurudzwa nehurumende dzekuvanzika - kunyanya idzo dzakatenderedza bato kusvika papi pacho pavanenge vasingakwanise kuratidzwa kana vatora rusununguko nemutemo. Kuita kuti chokwadi ichi chiratidzike pachena, chokwadi, ndechimwe chehurumende yekuUS svumbunuro yekuisa varidzi venzwi vakaita saSterling mutirongo - kuti vamwe vawana zano rekuti vanogona kuridza muridzo vobva vatiza nazvo.
Nemubhadharo wake weSam Adams, Sterling anounza kune vashanu nhamba yevanowana mibairo vakaiswa mutorongo kufumura kushungurudzwa kwehurumende (vasingaverenge 2013 Sam Adams laureate, Ed Snowden, akaitwa asina chiyero uye ave akagadziriswa muRussia kwemakore anopfuura matanhatu. Zvakatonyanya, Julian Assange (2010) naChelsea Manning (2014) vanoramba vari mutirongo, uko UN Special Rapporteur paTorture Nils Melzer vanoti vari kushungurudzwa.
Sam Adams Mubhadharo Mugovera muna 2016, John Kiriakou, anga atora makore maviri mutorongo wekuti ataurire kusapokana nekutambudzwa kweUS, achange ari mumwe wevanogamuchira Sterling kumhemberero yeChitatu. Vaviri vakaiswa pasi petsitsi dzeMutongi Leonie Brinkema - anozivikanwa kwazvo sa "mutongi akasungirirwa" wedare risingapfuure muProvince yeVirginia, uko Assange akapomerwazve mhosva pasi peiyo Hondo Yenyika I Espionage Act yakashandiswa kupomera Sterling.
Kutongwa kwaSterling kwakanzi zvisiri izvo kunzi "kusarasika" kweruramisiro. Kwakanga kusiri kurasika kwemimba, kwaive kubvisa nhumbu. Ndiri chiono ichi.
Makore mashanu apfuura, naKafka achikanda mumvuri murefu, ndakagara mudare raSterling nevamwe vashoma vaiziva nezveMambokadzi-we-Mwoyo rudzi rwe "kururamisira" Brinkema angave achizoshanda. Zvinosuruvarisa, akapfuura tarisiro yedu - kusuwa sezvavaive. Kana ari Sterling, aiziva kuti aive asina mhosva. Iye akateera mitemo nekuenda kumakomisheni anotarisira vatariri akacheneswa ruzivo rwakarongedzwa kuitira kufumura iko kuvhara basa iro raive risiri falkless chete asi raive nengozi zvakare. Nekudaro, akange aine chivimbo chekuti achasimbiswa - kunyangwe iye “mutongi akarembera,” jena-chena jury, uye dheponi Espionage Act.
Aiziva kuti aive asina mhosva, asi mazuva ano kukuziva kuti hauna mhosva kunogona kuumba pfungwa dzenhema dzekuchengeteka pamwe nekuzvivimba. Sterling akafungidzira - nenzira kwayo, zvakazoitika - kuti hurumende inogona kuuya isina humbowo hunogutsa pamusoro pake. Mumamiriro ezvinhu aya zvaisazova nemusoro kuti iye agamuchire fomu rekuteterera raipiwa muchiitiko chakadai. Nenzira yakajeka, kuvimba kwake kwekupedzisira mugadziriro yedu yekutonga kwakarasika. Aizoziva sei kuti anogona kutongwa, abatwa nemhosva, uye akaendeswa kujeri asina humwe humbowo hunopfuura "metadata"; ndiko kuti, zvirimo-zvishoma, zvinoratidzira humbowo.
Nhau dzakanaka ndedzekuti Sterling nguva yetorongo yave shure kwake. Iye nemukadzi wake akatsunga Holly achadzoka vhiki ino muWashington, zvisinei muchidimbu, aine shamwari nevanoyemura vane shungu yekupemberera kutendeseka kwakaratidzwa naiye naHolly mumakore mashanu apfuura anorwadza.
'Asingadiwe Spyera: Kutambudzwa kweAmerican Whistleblower'
Ndiro zita Sterling rakapa kune akanakisisa memoir yaakaburitsa yakadarika kudonha. Muratidziri / munyori David Swanson, akapindawo mukutongwa, akanyora wekutanga ongorora yeAmazon; akaritumidza kuti "Joinha CIA: Famba Nyika Inopfuura Nuclear Blueprints." (yambiro: Usati waverenga zvinonzwisisika zveSwanson, unogona kuda ku “ita kadhi rako rechikwereti” sezvo uchinge uchiona zvichinetsa kuramba kukurudzira kuti bhuku rive.)
Kumwezve kumberi pane Shanduro yeSterling ye Muedzo inogona kuwanikwa mugumbeze, inofungidzirwa kuvharwa Consortium News akazvipa makore mashanu apfuura. Gare gare, (Musi wa2 Kurume, 2018) Consortium rakaburitswa izvo zvakanyanya kuomesesa uye nekudzidzisa kuongororwa kweiyo codenamed Operation Merlin caper yekutevera Iran - an chinyorwa nemubhadharo akahwina muongorori wezvekuferefeta Gareth Porter anonzi "How 'Operation Merlin' yakatyisa US Intelligence kuIran."
Chidimbu chaPorter chakanyanya kudarika kungova "mukati me baseball 'nhoroondo yeimwe yenjodzi dzemunhu nemagariro ari kuitika kuUngwaru kwemakumi maviri emakore apfuura. Asi, itsotsi rakanyatsonyorwa rekupokana kwevanoda kuita CIA munguva idzodzo uye kutenderera kwavo kune zvinesimba zvine simba seIsrael Lobby mukuyedza kugadzira mufananidzo weIrani "muswe-gore" - mupikisi kune iye wakasunganidzwa kusvika "Kururamisa" hondo paIraq.
Chokwadi, zvinonyatsozivikanwa kuti Israel yaida kuti Mutungamiri George W. Bush neMutevedzeri weMutungamiriri Dick Cheney "vatange Iran", vasati varwisa Iraq. Vakuru vevashandi vepamoyo vaBush vairova chipfuva chavo, vachishevedzera, "Varume chaiye enda kuTehran."
Semaonero angu, madzishe ehungwaru akasarudzika, akasvikomira kune iyo braggadocio uye akarongedza "njere" kuti abatsire, ndiwo anofanirwa kunge akaiswa mutirongo - kwete vanhu vekudaidza saSterling, uyo akaedza kuburitsa hupenzi. Zvakawanikwa naPorter zvine chekuita ne "chepfu yehungwaru hweUS kuIran" zvine zvazvinoreva nhasi. Tinogona isu kukwanisa kutora pamberi pechiso kukoshesa "huchenjeri" hwakapihwa kupa chikonzero cheUS ruvengo kuIran? Chidimbu chaPorter chinhu chinofanira kuverenga mumazuva ano ekutarisana kunotyisa naTeheran.
Kumuka. (Wikipedia)
Muedzo waSterling waisanganisira zvinhu zvecece pamwe nemutambo. Mumuenzaniso wevairi vaviri, CIA yakaburitsa tambo dzepakutanga dzakanyatsosarudzwa kuratidza kuti Sterling aive nemhosva yekudzora ruzivo rwekuRisen yeIran-yakamisikidzwa Operation Merlin, zano reCIA kushandisa mucheki weRussia kudhiza dhizaini yenyukireya. pfumo, rakanangana nekuparadza chirongwa chenyukireya Iran.
Tambo dzakadzoreredzwa zvakanyanya, chokwadi. Asi, ole, isina kukwana kuvanza izvo zvinoita kunge chinhu chakakosha chechinyorwa cheMerlin - kureva kuti Iraq, pamwe neIran, yaive mumharadzano yeMerlin chivharo chiito. Pasina kupokana, vezvenhau vakapotsa izvi, asi Swanson, uyo aipinda kumwe kutongwa, akanyatsoongorora imwe yetambo yakaunzwa seuchapupu uye akawana iri kudzoreredzwa. Inspector Clouseau, iye amene, aigona kunge akafungisisa mamwe mazwi akakosha pasi pekugadzirisa.
Swanson akaburitsa ake zvakawanikwa pasi pemusoro wenyaya: "Mukutungamira Jeff Sterling, CIA Yakazarura Zvakawanda Kupfuura Iyo Yakapomera Iye Kuzivisa." Chikamu chaSanson chiri kuratidza.
Avo chete vanotsvaga chokwadi nezve Operation Merlin ndivo vakaziva. Zvese zvaingoda kuti Swanson i (1) kuve nehanya nezve kuti kururamisira, kana kubvisa nhumbu kururamisira, kwainge kwave kuda kuitika, uye (2) kuisa humwe humwe humwe tradecraft chaijairika pakuongorora basa nekuongorora kwehungwaru.
Avo vane dumbu rakasimba avo vasati vava kuverenga chitsauko cheOperation Merlin muRisen's State of War, vanokurudzirwa kwazvo kuti vadaro. Chitsauko chaRisen chinopa vaverengi chinonaka chechikonzero nei ivo pro-vanoshanda vekuita veCIA vakanyatsotsiviwa mabasa ekuvhara vakagumbuka nezvakazarurirwa uye vakafungisisa nepfungwa yekuti kuwedzeredza kungangoitika kunze kwekunge munhu - chero munhu - anogona kuve akaumbwa, apomerwa, uye kusungwa.
Kafka Mimvuri 'Muedzo' weSterling
Nekutamba-ne-kutamba nezve mhosva dzavari kupomerwa Sterling, zvikonzero zviri shure kwavo, uye kuti hurumende yaigona kumuisa mutirongo pazvinhu zvemukati uye zvimwe zvinowanika nyore nyore kune avo vanofarira rumwe ruzivo, regai ndiwedzere rumwe ruvara nezve ambiance pati ambisance yemuyedzo wacho pachako- iyo metadata yemuyedzo, kana uchikwanisa.
Chiitiko chaive surreal. Kutongwa kwacho kwakatanga musi wa14 Ndira, 2015 paine zvapupu zvichitaura kuseri kwemawiromita gumi nemashanu-kureba mufananidzo, mufananidzo weutsi nemagirazi isu atave kuda kuburitswa pachena. Izvo hazvina kukwanisa kuwana Muedzo naKafka akabuda mundangariro dzangu. Mubhuku raKafka risingazivetsi protagonist, "Joseph K.", ane pfungwa yakakura yekubatwa - nekusava nerubatsiro mumaoko e “Dare risinganzwisisike.” (Kafka aimbove mushandi wehurumende muHapsburg Austria aine mukana wakakwana cherekedza kurongeka mukuita, chinhu chinosimudzira huru mune ino.
Muedzo inoratidzira masimba epamutemo, maserura, uye masimba emagariro ari kudzora rusununguko. "Joseph K." haana mhosva pane chero chakaipa; kunyangwe izvi, anosungwa uye aurayiwe. Zvakatonyanya kunetseka, vese mavara ari mune ino nyorwa - kusanganisira pakupedzisira Mr. K. - vanokotamisa misoro yavo mukusiya basa, vachifungidzira kuti ichi ndicho chakajairika, kana zvakashata, mamiriro ezvinhu.
Mumwe angadudzira sei Muedzo vekusekondari kana vekoreji vadzidzi, ndaifunga kwandiri. Kutsvaga kweGoogle akawanikwa nhungamiro yekudzidzisa kune bhuku kubva kuRandom House.
Vadzidzisi vanogona sei kukurira humwe hwematambudziko akajairwa kuiswa mukati Muedzo? Chekutanga, edza kuona "mukufunga kwaJosef K. dambudziko revanhu rinogona kucherechedzwa nemunhu: maitiro ekuzvidzivirira kubva pachiremera chine simba rakawandisa." Zvakanaka. Asi mukati Muedzo kwete chete kuti vakomana vakanaka havakundi, asi hapana vakomana vakanaka - hapana mavara akanaka mune iyi inoshungurudza nyaya. Uye - zvakatoipisisa - hapana kufarira kwerudo.
Apa ndipo pakaedzwa Sterling kubva kuKafka. Pane zvakawanda zvekuyemura mune yaSterling nyaya. Vavariro dzakanaka dzinowanda, kutanga uye kunyanya, Sterling nemukadzi wake akatsunga Holly. Iyi haisi Hapsburg Austria, asi United States of America; kuyedzwa uku hakuna kujairika; havabvumiri; hapana kupfugama kwemisoro.
Uye havaite shamwari. Hatidi kushomeka nekuda kweruzivo rwenzvimbo pazvinhu zvekutengesa, kushungurudza huori. Kana dziri zverudo rwekuda - kashoma ini ndakachengeta muenzaniso unosimbisa werudo rwezuva nezuva nerutsigiro. Holly anogara aripo. Kure kutarisana nekuurayiwa kwakasarudzika saKafka "Joseph K.," Sterling anomira akasimbiswa mukutsiga kwake - uye achakudzwa zvakakodzera vhiki ino nevezera rake. Iko Kafka hakuchina.
Iwo mapepa akasarudzika ehembe dzakagadzirira kusvibisa nekushungurudza ma Sterlings dzawana zvakapesana chaizvo. Pazasi pompop uye mamiriro ezvinhu, iyo tsika yeCIA kurongeka pane yakashata yakafumurwa.
Conmen & Condoleezza
Zvainakidza, kana zvisingaori moyo, kuona mudare (kana pakabvharidzwa nevharo repamusoro, kungoteerera) kune CIA vabati kubva padivi rekuvhara kwedivi reiyo kirisiti kutengesa kutengeserana kwavo kune kwairatidzika kunge husina musoro, husina tarisiro vangava vachuchisi, mutongi, kana dare. Aya mabasa ndeanotevera, "maofficial officer"; chitoro chavo mukutengeserana chiri kuendesa vanhu - vangave mudare, paChikomo, kana neine kare maratidziro edzimba.
Mhiri kwemakungwa, chokwadika, vanoshandisa mawaya avo akagadziridzwa kunyenga vatorwa kuti vapandukire nyika yavo. Munguva yekutonga kwaSterling, hunyanzvi hwavo hwaive hwakazara kuratidza mukati. Chinhu choga chakasara chisina kujeka ndechekuti tarisiro yedare redzimhosva yekurima kwavo uye nekuwana vanhu vaiziva kuti vari kubatanidzwa. Kuziva kana kwete, maCIA emakesi ematare akavaka inobudirira yakabatana pamberi pemutongi nemutongi.
Pazuva rekupedzisira kutongwa, hurumende yakaunza vamwe vakuru-pfuti-vakuru-vakuru kuti vafadze vanhu vacho uye kuvhara mhosva yavo. Panguva ino vezvenhau vaive vazhinji vaivapo, sezvo duchess-ye-iyo-uyo-guruva, aimbova munyori wezvematunhu uye wezvechengetedzwa kwenyika kuchengetedzeka Condoleezza Rice stiletto-heeled kupinda mudare redzimhosva kuti apupure achipokana naSterling. Kubva pane hushed reaction iyi zvaive pachena kuti anga achiri akapfeka zvinoshanda kwazvo - kana fananidzo - Teflon.
Iyo yaive, mumwe angati, "kuvhunduka uye kutya" kweimwe mhando. Hapana mumwe wevanhu akashamisika akaratidzika akatarisa pane zvakakonzerwa nenhema Rice akaudza makore gumi nemaviri zvisati zvaitika kuti "ruramise" iyo njodzi yehondo paIraq, kana ye White House yekutarisa zvikamu zvaakarongedza kupfupisa Bush mukuru wepamusoro kuchengetedzwa kwenyika pamusoro peCIA kushushwa maitiro ekuti vangangowana kutenga-mukati kwavo uye kuve nechokwadi kuti vaisakwanisa kuona sevasina mhosva. (Vichireva avo macabre mafupi, ipapo-Gweta Gavhuna John Ashcroft Akadaro, "Nhoroondo haizove nemutsa kwatiri." Zvinosuruvarisa, avo vanobatanidzwa vachiri kutiza nazvo.
Ini ndanga ndakagara pamagumo enzira iyo Rice yaidhonzwa nepfuura, uye iye ndokusekerera nyemwerero kumeso kwechiso kwandiri. Mukudaro, ini handina kukwanisa kuramba kutsvinya izwi-rine syllable ye "prevaricator." Asingatendwe, akanyemwerera zvakanyanya.
wo kupupura pazuva rekupedzisira iri William Harlow, CIA prevaricator-in-chief pasi pe "slam-dunk" director George Tenet, pasi pe "hutungamiriri" Operation Merlin yakagamuchirwa nekuitwa. Kunze kwemabhuku ekunyorera mweya naTenet nezvimwe zvakadaro, kuda kwaHarlow mukurumbira kunosara pakubudirira kudzora vezvenhau kubva pachokwadi chakanyorwa kuti Iraq yakanga isina WMD isati yarwiswa munaKurume 20, 2003.
PaKurume 24, 2003, Newsweek rakaburitsa rondedzero yakasarudzika naJohn Barry yakavakirwa pamutemo wepamutemo wevatariri veUN wekutorwa kwaHussein Kamel, mukuwasha waSaddam Hussein. Kamel anga achitarisira eIraq yenyukireya, makemikari, uye zvombo zvoutano zvirongwa uye zvikwapuro zvekuendesa zvombo zvakadaro. Kamel akavimbisa vaimubvunzurudza kuti zvese zvakange zvaparadzwa. (Muchimiro chepasi pasi, Newsweek"Barry akataura," Nyaya yemuchuchisi inomutsa mibvunzo yekuti masitepisi eWMD anofungidzirwa kuIraq aripo. "
Barry akawedzera kuti Kamel akabvunzurudzwa muzvikamu zvakasiyana neCIA, huchenjeri hweBritain, uye vatatu vatatu kubva kuchikwata cheUN chekuongorora; izvo Newsweek akange ave kugona kuona kuti gwaro reUN raive rechokwadi, uye kuti Kamel "akataura nyaya imwechete kuCIA neBritish." Muchidimbu, Barry's scoop yakanga yatosimbiswa. Uye iyo CIA yaiziva pamwe nechokwadi kuti zvakataurwa naKamel muna 1995 ichiri chokwadi muna 2003. Hufakazi hwezvinyorwa - bhomba rinogona kuitika. Izvo zvaizochinja sei kuronga kurwisa Iraq mushure memwedzi?
Harlow akasimuka achienda kuchiitiko ichi. Pakabvunzwa nevezvenhau nezve nezvakaudzwa naBarry, iye akaitumidza "Zvisizvo, nhema, zvisizvo, zvisiri zvechokwadi." Uye nhepfenyuro yemirimo yakati, mukuita, "Ah, Gosh. Kutenda nekutizivisa. Tinogona kunge takamhanyisa nyaya pane izvozvo. "
Ini handisi munhu wekugunun'una. Ini ndinogadzira Harlow. Apedza kupupurira akaona kuti chigaro choga chisina munhu mudare redzimhosva ndicho chaive pedyo neni. "Mhoroi," akadaro, achifamba achinopinda muchigaro. Ini ndakanga ndisingade kuti ndiite mamiriro, saka ndakanyora ndikamupfuudza iwo tsamba iyi:
"Newsweek, Kubvumbi 24, 2003, Hussein Kamel debrief akataura mushure mekuzvibata kwake muna 1995:" Ndakaraira kuti WMD iparadzwe. "
Harlow anoti Newsweek nyaya "isiriyo, nhema, nhema, hadzisi nhema."
Mauto 4,500 XNUMX eUS akafa. Nhema. "
Harlow akaverenga tsamba yangu, akandipa kunyemwerera kwaColeoleezza, ndokuti, "Zvakanaka kukuona, Ray."
Chiyeuchidzo chakabva kuna Lord Acton, wezvematongerwo enyika wezana 19 uye wezvenhau: "Zvese zvakavanzika zvinopera, iko iko kururamisira."
Pazasi pane rugwaro rwecitation runoperekedza mubairo kuna Jeffrey Sterling:
Ray McGovern anoshandira Taura Shoko, ruoko rwekuburitsa rweChechi yemachechi yeMuponesi iri mukati meguta Washington. Aive wemauto anofamba nemauto / wehungwaru uyezve muongorori weCIA kweanosvika makore makumi matatu uye akaitisa zvinyorwa zvemangwanani zvemutungamiri weMazuva ese Brief panguva yekutanga Reagan manejimendi. Mukuzorora iye akagadzira Veteran Intelligence Professionals yeSanity (VIPS).
