Today's long NY Times story on the interrogation of Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed uses the actual name of his interrogator, an ex-CIA agent
who still works in counterterrorism:
Mr. Martinez declined to be interviewed; his role
was described by colleagues. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, director of
the C.I.A., and a lawyer representing Mr. Martinez asked that he
not be named in this article, saying that the former interrogator
believed that the use of his name would invade his privacy and
might jeopardize his safety. The New York Times, noting that Mr.
Martinez had never worked undercover and that others involved in
the campaign against Al Qaeda have been named in news articles and
books, declined the request. (An
editors' note on this issue has been posted on
The Times's Web site.)
Toward the end of the article, the
Times
also reveals his current employer, and notes the fact that he still
consults the CIA to train other officers in "the arcane art of
tracking terrorists." Thanks to the
NYT,
which raised a tremendous stink about Valerie Plame's outing,
Martinez is now incredibly easy to locate.
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