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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald reveals Torture Queen's identity [View all]Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Bikowsky has been identified as "the redheaded former Soviet analyst who had been in the Bin Laden Unit during Michael Scheuer's supervision"[7](p273) in Jane Mayer's book, The Dark Side.[8] After Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured in March 2003, Mayer writes of Bikowsky:
Despite the CIA's insistence on the professionalism of its interrogation program, according to two well-informed Agency sources, one particularly overzealous female officer had to be reprimanded for her role.
After Mohammed was captured, the woman, who headed the Al Qaeda unit in the CTC, was so excited she flew at government expense to the black site where Mohammed was held so that she could personally watch him being waterboarded.
... Coworkers said she had no legitimate reason to be present during Mohammed's interrogation.
She was not an interrogator. "She thought it would be cool to be in the room," a former colleague said. (p. 273)[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfreda_Frances_Bikowsky