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November 02, 2005
The Bush Administration's Secret Prison System
Washington Post Reporter Dana Priest's November 2, 2005 article revealing that, " The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al-Qaida captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement," has gotten widespread coverage around the world. Priest's noted: 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 Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents.
This should not come as a surprise given the Bush Administration's propensity for secrecy and willingness to use practices against Muslim prisoners of war often associated with the old Soviet Union.
Is the fact that the CIA used "a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe" coincidental or the result of the CIA's knowledge of what they were used for? East bloc torturers were widely known for the expertise in extracting information by extraordinary during the Soviet era. Many of those operatives are still around and hire themselves out.
Posted by Munir Umrani at November 2, 2005 08:35 PM
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