Call It What It Is 2
I read this story earlier today.
The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.
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, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents.
The story goes on to say
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 only a handful of officials in the United States and, usually, only to the president and a few top intelligence officers in each host country.
and later
“We never sat down, as far as I know, and came up with a grand strategy,” said one former senior intelligence officer who is familiar with the program but not the location of the prisons. “Everything was very reactive. That’s how you get to a situation where you pick people up, send them into a netherworld and don’t say, ‘What are we going to do with them afterwards?’ “
Read the story.
Call it what it is.
We, citizens of the United States, are becoming the enemy under guise of protecting ourselves.
The current Federal Administration has reduced this country to running concentration camps.
I feel sick.
November 2, 2005 at 8:21 pm
Hey Frank, clue me in on why all these senators were so ticked off with each other yesterday over the secret session. It seemed to me that it was just business as usual – the Democrats, naturally, want an investigation into the war and the Republicans, naturally, don’t care to talk about it, so they both pulled the usual procedural stunts that go on all the time there. Why did this have Frist infuriated and Reid barking at reporters like a German Shepherd?
November 3, 2005 at 5:52 pm
Well, I’m just guessing here, but here’s my take:
The Democrats are unhappy because the Republicans are stalling phase II of the investigation. I believe, and I suspect they believe, that they Republicans are stalling it because it’s getting too close to the Republicans in the White House.
The Republicans are unhappy because they were caught by surprise. They have gotten so used to ramming things through their own way (like keeping roll call votes open far longer than usual until they can browbeat Congressmen into changing their initial votes) that, when they didn’t get their own way, they had a temper tantrum.
Here’s a link that may help us figure this out.
Just my take.