The CIA's 'Black Sites' (V Voice)

[katty]

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Liberty Beat
The CIA's 'Black Sites'

What are we going to do with the secret prisoners who cannot be tried in our courts?

by Nat Hentoff
February 24th, 2006 4:29 PM

illustration: Mirko Ilic

The CIA's top counterterrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation, and using forms of torture such as "waterboarding," intelligence sources have claimed. The Sunday Times, London, February 12
For more than three years, I've been reporting on what has been increasingly, but fragmentarily, revealed about secret CIA prisons around the world. On September 17, 2001, the president, in a classified order, gave the CIA these "special powers" (as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales agreed during his confirmation hearings).

These "black sites"—as they are called in CIA, White House, and Justice Department files— escaped attempted congressional oversight until December 2005. But in the National Defense Authorization Act, the Senate finally called for regular reports on where those prisons are, what plans there are for the ultimate release of their prisoners, and "a description of the interrogation procedures used." Ted Kennedy and John Kerry introduced the resolution.

[midnight]

1. Thanks Katty

This stuff is just so creepy, but we need to know what is going on.

[Clara T]

2. Thanks

America has turned into the 21st Century Gulag Nation and the American people are largely silent and the Congress, with a few exceptions, goes along with the program as the enablers.

Disgusting

[katty]

3. yes, and now the push to Global Gulag

[Clara T]

4. If you haven't already

seen the Chris Floyd article "Pentagon Gulag" check it out, I just put it up in A&E.

2.1 million in the domestic gulags and who knows how many in the various international gulags.

[katty]

5. thx, i will

[Clara T]

6. kick for truth

[SeaBob]

7. Black sites

ever notice that Black sites and Bu** Sh** both start with B. S.:nuke: