Eugene Robinson on Concentration Camps 0
As reporter Dana Priest revealed in The Post this week, the Bush administration has held dozens of al Qaeda prisoners in secret prisons, with no regard to due process. It was a “small circle of White House and Justice Department lawyers and officials” who approved this archipelago of “black-site” detention centers, The Post reported.
These CIA-run prisons have been operated in eight countries, The Post said — Afghanistan, Thailand, the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba and “several democracies in Eastern Europe.” Officials prevailed upon The Post not to disclose the names of the European countries, citing national security concerns. The real reason, no doubt, was that if citizens of those countries knew their governments were hosting secret American prisons, they would surely object.
This conduct, perpetrated by the current Federal Administration, dishonors the United States of America, its citizens, and those who have fought over the course of more than two centuries to create, protect, and preserve this nation.
