Bashing Gina Haspel, nominated to be CIA director, for her role torturing captives may be deserved, but she should not be carrying that curse alone. What’s worse
Read MoreAli Soufan Cited by Chicago Tribune: I Went to Prison for Disclosing the CIA’s Torture. Gina Haspel Helped Cover it Up.
I was inside the CIA’s Langley, Va., headquarters on Sept. 11, 2001. Like all Americans, I was traumatized, and I volunteered to go overseas to help bring al-Qaida’s leaders to justice.
Read MoreJeffrey Ringel Quoted by PBS News Hour: The Pulse Nightclub Shooter’s Wife is on Trial. Here’s Why
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.
Read MoreAli 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 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 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 Cited in CNN: The Massive FBI Sting to Bring Down an ISIS-Supporting Weightlifter in Key West
Harlem Suarez grabbed a jalapeno pepper from his plate and took a big bite. The heavily tattooed Cuban-American crepe-maker was eating dinner with two new friends, Shariff and Mohammed, at a Denny’s in Key West on a warm June night.
Read MoreAli Soufan Quoted in The Daily Beast: Devin Nunes’ Anti-FBI Memo Names James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, and Andrew McCabe
A controversial Republican memo alleging surveillance abuse specifically names FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein along with former FBI Director James Comey.
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