Representing 151 of certain US officials who did not want these atrocities to be exposed) in order to pressure the US government not to ally with the regime.6 The Caesar ��le is unprecedented in that it’s something that can start tying the noose around Assad’s head – not for the legal process, which is important for accountability and justice. But more important for me is how we can use that politically to prevent any thought of [the US government] working with the regime. It would just be embarrassing for President [Obama] – impossible – if he knew everything [in the Caesar file] and still worked with Assad. figure 5.3. Mouaz Mustafa, head of the Syrian Emergency Task Force (left), speaks with unnamed Syrian regime defector “Caesar” (right) while waiting to brief the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in Washington, DC on July 31, 2014. Caesar smuggled fiftyfive thousand photographs out of Syria that document the torture and killing of more than ten thousand detainees by the Assad regime. Some photographs depicting the corpses of starved prisoners have been enlarged and are displayed behind Chairman Ed Royce. Mouaz has worked as Caesar’s partner and broker across a range of venues to publicize these atrocities, including in Congress and the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. (Photo by Erkan Avci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) 6 As articles by Simon and Bolduan (2019) and Kossaify (2020) explain, Caesar’s defection and testimonies in front of Congress, which displayed photographic evidence from more than fifty thousand images of Syrians who had been starved and tortured to death in regime prisons, was shepherded by Mouaz Moustafa of the Syrian Emergency Task Force. This broadcasting work https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009272148 Published online by Cambridge University Press