WHAT THE CIA'S "QUEEN OF TORTURE" DID NEXT, by @fayecurran99 Alfreda Bikowsky led the CIA unit that tortured suspected terrorists and caught Osama bin Laden. She helped design, defend and implement the agency’s torture program during the war on terror. She is said to have “gleefully” tortured detainees at remote prisons across the Middle East. Now she’s a women’s life coach. In her first long-form interview since she retired from the CIA in 2021, Bikowsky stands by the use of waterboarding as a form of interrogation. She has never been waterboarded. She never considered trying it. When asked about the waterboarding of KSM, and the subject of what constitutes torture, Bikowsky repeats the same line: “In all instances, the agency has never asked me to do anything that I thought was unethical or unlawful or immoral.” She has no regrets. In her coaching she encourages her clients to remember that “someone could look at Jesus Christ walking on water and come away criticising him because he wasn’t juggling at the same time”. Faye Curran spent several months talking to – and being life-coached by – the “Queen of Torture”. Read the full story below.
