My dear CIA

New York Review of Books slams CIA with Twitter attack

Tómenselo como les parezca: la CIA hasta tuitea. Chachi piruli colegas. Sobre Spain lo tendrán very chungo indee. ETA no es teta. Catalunya es CAT. Messi no es español. El rey abdicó. Y el Estado Español es el país de las maravillas.
Bueno aquí les dejo la pieza de Gambino. Sugiero visiten el portal de la CIA. A lo mejor hasta encuentran curro. Funciona muy bien y el catálogo por países es bastante decente. Algo como la versión enciclopédica del mundo mundial.

 

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• Lauren Gambino in New York
• theguardian.com, Saturday 7 June 2014 20.47 BST
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Tweets were an apparent attempt to remind the Twitterverse that behind the agency's new social-media facade lies a controversial history. Photo: Larry Downing /Reuters

On Friday, the CIA officially joined Twitter. Somewhat against the generally accepted nature of the agency, its first tweet was coyly playful, saying: “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.”

Not everyone, however, was laughing.

Later the same day, through its own Twitter account, the New York Review of Books released a barrage of 140-character reminders of the surveillance agency's controversial interrogation techniques.

An hour after releasing a tweet about the obscure delights of Italian Futurist art, the august and famously technophobic literary journal – which has on prominent display in its West Village offices a book entitled "Social Media is Bullshit" – tweeted a link to a blogpost written by David Cole in March, amid Senate intelligence committee chair Diane Feinstein’s public falling out with the CIA over the “internal Panetta review”.

ICYMI: The @CIA’s Poisonous Tree, by David Cole (March 15, 2014) #torture http://t.co/X6kLWkZvdL

— NY Review of Books (@nybooks) June 6, 2014

In the blogpost, Cole, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, concludes: “The CIA’s desperate efforts to hide the details of what the world already knows in general outline – that it subjected human beings to brutal treatment to which no human being should ever be subjected – are only the latest evidence of the poisonous consequences of a program euphemistically called ‘enhanced interrogation’.”

Then @nybooks got serious.

In rapid succession, the account tweeted out the contents page of a confidential 2007 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross, entitled “Report on the Treatment of Fourteen ‘High Value Detainees’ in CIA Custody”.

The contents page, which documented interrogation tactics used at the CIA's secret offshore prisons known as “black sites”, was published in a 2009 NYRB article by Mark Danner, US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites.

1. Main Elements of the CIA Detention Program 1.1 Arrest and Transfer 1.2 Continuous Solitary Confinement @CIAhttp://t.co/iVWN7NVTrV

— NY Review of Books (@nybooks) June 6, 2014