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Earlier this year, President Donald Trump was shown a disturbing video of Syrian rebels beheading a child near the city of Aleppo. It had caused a minor stir in the press as the fighters belonged to the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, a group that had been supported by the CIA as part of its rebel aid program. The footage is haunting. Five bearded men smirk as they surround a boy in the back of a pickup truck. One of them holds the boy’s head with a tight grip on his hair while another mockingly slaps his face. Then, one of...

Daskal’s anti-CIA activism was not limited to making hyperbolic statements to the press. Daskal and Human Rights Watch played a significant role in uncovering the CIA’s secret detention facilities in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan, where top terrorists were detained and interrogated. On November 2, 2005, Dana Priest of the Washington Post reported that the “CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe.” The Post, citing the government’s security concerns, did not name the countries where the facilities were located. But just a few days later, on November...

We will welcome the one and only Thomas Joscelyn writer for the Weekly Standard and Senior Editor of the Long War Journal who will update us on all issues national security. We also welcome back , Major Vaughn Ward, conservative candidate for the House from Idaho, formerly CIA and also served in Iraq, to give us the benefit of his knowledge and experience on this issue. And we also welcome a new member to the Freedom Radio family Lt. Col. John Loughlin, presently a member of the Rhode Island legislature, another Combat Vet for Congress, and running against Patrick Kennedy,...