So there's this place, you know, called the Salt Pit, you know? No you didn't know. You couldn't know, but now you know. Well, click here and you'll know. You'll know 'that', you can guess 'why', but you'll never know 'how' or 'to what extent'. That's why they call them secret prisons.
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.
Out here in the amature paranoia zone, we had an inkling that such things existed. I mean, why wouldn't they? Astute paranoids can google this number N4476S and find interesting yet inconclusive facts. It's hard to hide aircraft.
Be all that as it may, we at Cobb expected as much. And I hope people start taking Posner's advice more seriously. Because you cannot just say to the world that you're going to bring people tp justice, if you don't eventually bring them. So as long as we take prisoners, which in and of itself is an act of moral, civilized behavior, we're going to have to keep certain folks incommunicado. Sounds fair to me.
Clearly, the transparency of the American system is admirable. No wonder we have so many dissidents. They get their day. Oh and one more thing before knees start jerking. Congress knew.
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