James Corbett
The Corbett Report
21 September, 2011

UPDATE (Sep. 22nd): It has now been confirmed that the name of the “Frances” referred to in this article is not Audrey Tomason, as originally speculated, but Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. The name of the other mysterious CIA agent referred to as “Michael” has also been revealed as Michael Anne Casey.

The now infamous photograph of Obama and his aides gathered around a non-existent live feed of the highly dubious Osama raid was scrutinized to the nth degree when it came out, but one anomaly has not been given very much attention: the presence of one “Audrey F. Tomason,” whom the White House identifies as “Director for Counterterrorism.”

The Daily Mail in the UK has speculated that the “F.” in “Audrey F. Tomason” stands for Frances, and that this is the “Frances” who was referred to in reports earlier this year as the CIA officer who argued the CIA should detain German citizen Khaled el-Masri in 2004. Although the CIA’s own inspector general issued a blistering report on “Frances'” conduct, she ended up being promoted.

This is where things get interesting.

Those who have been following the story of Richard Clarke’s recently released bombshell testimony about the CIA deliberately holding back key 9/11 intelligence know that the two filmmakers behind that interview were recently threatened by the CIA not to release their documentary. This was ostensibly because their documentary was going to release the real identities of two CIA officers who were instrumental in that cover-up; someone known as “Michelle” and someone known as…”Frances.”

Sibel Edmonds over at BoilingFrogsPost now has an article up speculating on the idea that “Frances” may in fact be Tomason. It’s just speculation at this point, but I urge all readers to go check the story out by clicking this link (Note: This link has been removed as per update above). Rest assured there will be more to come on this story in the coming days.