Biden caught between progressives and national security veterans on CIA pick
WASHINGTON — Fourteen years ago, Khaled el-Masri, a German man of Lebanese descent, arrived in the U.S. to attend his legal proceedings against the U.S. government, alongside his attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union. Following the 9/11 attack, el-Masri was mistaken by the CIA for an al-Qaida terrorist and was snatched off a bus while on his way to Macedonia for a vacation. He was then, he maintained, held and tortured for months in the covert CIA site in Afghanistan dubbed the “Salt Pit.” During his U.S. visit, he gave a ...
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