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HEre we go again...secret torture prisons
"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... CIA accused over secret jails for terror suspects America's Central Intelligence Agency is being accused of hiding and interrogating some of its most important al- Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe. Thursday, November 03, 2005 America's Central Intelligence Agency is being accused of hiding and interrogating some of its most important al- Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe. The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents, have told The Washington Post. The hidden global internment network is said to be a central element in the CIA's unconventional war on terrorism. It depends on the cooperation of foreign intelligence services, and on keeping even basic information about the system secret from the public, foreign officials and nearly all members of Congress charged with overseeing the CIA's covert actions. The existence and locations of the facilities - referred to as "black sites" in classified White House, CIA, Justice Department and congressional documents - are known to just a handful of officials in the United States and, usually, only to the president and a few top intelligence officers in each host country, the Post said. The CIA and the White House, citing national security concerns and the value of the program, have dissuaded Congress from demanding that the agency answer questions in open testimony about the conditions under which captives are held. Virtually nothing is known about who is kept in the facilities, what interrogation methods are employed with them, or how decisions are made about whether they should be detained or for how long. = = = Your GOP-controlled government at work. Gee, what will happen when this blows up in our face? Sounds like a good idea to me holding our enemy outside the country for interrogation. War is hell, and don't bring a knife to a gun fight! |
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