Thank you!
I started this Substack nearly a year ago following the death of my friend, former Navy SEAL Dan Cerrillo.
As readers of this site know, Cerrillo captured suspected Iraqi insurgent Manadel al-Jamadi, the Ice Man, who died a few hours later in CIA interrogation. Cerrillo didn’t kill Jamadi, but he and his teammates in SEAL Team Seven’s Foxtrot Platoon were the ones who paid the price. They were criminally charged in military court with abusing al-Jamadi, and their SEAL careers and lives were never the same.
Since I launched this site, we’ve learned a lot about the CIA’s efforts to cover up their role in Jamadi’s death, a coverup that was never prosecuted. We’ve learned how Jamadi’s death exposed a rogue interrogation and detention operation in Iraq, which a Frankestein copy of the legally approved torture program the agency was running in secret prisons around the world.
Right now, a federal judge is reviewing the CIA Inspector General’s report into Jamadi’s death—a document the agency has tried to keep secret for 20 years—and deciding whether to release even more information that may help us understand one of the little-known scandals that resulted from the CIA’s ethical and moral collapse after 9/11.
It would not have been possible without all the support and encouragement I’ve received along the way. So thank you. I’d bet Dan Cerrillo would be proud of what we’ve accomplished, but I know he would not be satisfied until he knew the full truth. And neither am I.