Opening remarks began Wednesday in the federal terrorism trial for Noor Salman, the wife of the man who opened fire inside Florida nightclub Pulse nearly two years ago, killing 49 people and injuring more than 50 others.
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Ali Soufan Cited by Atlantic: McCabe’s Firing Chips Away at the Justice Department’s Independence
Andrew McCabe, a former acting and deputy FBI director who had drawn the ire of President Trump
Read MoreAli Soufan Interviewed by Newsweek: Torture, The CIA and Hulu’s ‘The Looming Tower’: An Interview With Ali Soufan
It’s easy to understand why Hulu would turn Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Looming Tower, into a TV series. Published in 2006, his deep-dive account of the long history of Middle Eastern politics and Islamic militant rivalries that culminated in the birth of Al-Qaeda was eminently cinematic.
Read MoreAli Soufan Op-Ed in The Atlantic: Telling the Truth About CIA Torture
It is a matter of public record that Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to be the next director of the CIA, played a key role in the agency’s now-defunct program of “enhanced interrogation techniques”
Read MoreAli Soufan Quoted by Atlantic: Obama’s Legacy of Impunity for Torture
Much has been made of President Trump’s disregard for rules and norms—boundaries delineated by ethics and morality if not written laws themselves. But transgressing laws, rules, and norms isn’t the only way to destroy them. Another way is simply not to enforce them.
Read MoreAli Soufan Quoted by France 24: Trump’s New CIA Chief Pick’s Torture Past Clouds Her Future
In March 2002, an FBI agent fluent in Arabic was called in to interrogate a suspect captured in a raid on a suspected al Qaeda safe house in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad.
Read MoreAli Soufan Interviewed on MSNBC: Gina Haspel CIA Pick
The Soufan Group CEO Ali Soufan and author Lawrence Wright speak with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi about Gina Haspel, Trump’s new pick to head the CIA, and her ties to “enhanced interrogation” techniques and how these are a result of the War on Terror.
Read MoreJeffrey Ringel Interviewed on Fox Business: FBI Admits it Never Acted on Tip in January on Florida Shooting Suspect
The Soufan Group Director, Jeffrey Ringel Discusses how the FBI handles tips on potential threats.
Read MoreJeffrey Ringel Quoted by Associated Press: FBI Pressure Increases with Failure to Avert School Shooting
In the Florida school shooting, “somebody made a mistake, somebody did not do their job,” said Jeffrey Ringel, a former FBI agent and Joint Terrorism Task force member who now works for The Soufan Group, a private security firm …
Read MoreAli Soufan Joins a Discussion with stars and producers of the Hulu original series, ‘The Looming Tower’
The Soufan Group CEO Ali Soufan Joins a Discussion hosted by The Washington Post with stars and producers of the Hulu original series, ‘The Looming Tower’
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