Nick Turse on the Pentagon’s Secretive Funding Authority, 127e

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🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Last month, The Intercept published a new investigation from Alice Speri and Nick Turse looking into a secretive funding authority at the Pentagon known as 127e, or 127-echo. Using exclusive documents and interviews, the reporters revealed how U.S. Special Operations forces are involved in a proxy war program on a significantly larger scale than previously known.

To discuss the program and what it means for U.S. foreign policy, Tyler McBrien sat down with Nick, an investigative journalist at The Intercept who has reported on 127-echo for years. They discussed the history of the funding authority, what these new documents and interviews can tell us about U.S. proxy wars, and how much we still don't know.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:33.8	They might know about some operations that the US conducts in Yemen, but don't know that
0:38.3	we have an actual proxy force under this program operating there.
0:43.0	And one of the places that we were, it was one of the first ones that I found out about
0:47.9	one of the most difficult to pin down was a program in Egypt called Enigma Hunter, where
0:55.4	US Special Operations Forces partnered with the Egyptian military operations in the Sinai
1:00.9	Peninsula.
1:02.6	And this is an area where the Sinai is subject to a near total media blackout, human rights
1:09.4	groups, documented widespread abuses including torture, extradigacial killings, attacks on
1:14.7	civilians, and are the 127 echo proxy forces involved in these abuses?
1:23.2	We don't know because the oversight is really lax and the reporting on it by the US government
1:30.9	is almost nil.
1:33.3	I'm Tyler McBride, managing editor of LawFair, and this is the LawFair podcast, August
1:38.7	9, 2022.
1:41.3	Last month, the intercept published a new investigation from a Liches theory and Nick
1:45.1	Terce, looking into a secretive funding authority at the Pentagon known as 127E or 127E.
1:52.8	Using exclusive documents and interviews, the reporters revealed how US Special Operations
1:57.2	Forces are involved in a proxy war program on a far greater scale than previously known.
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