CIA Black Sites

Nat Hentoff wrote an interesting column in the Village Voice in late February, asking "What are we going to do with the secret prisoners who cannot be tried in our courts?  He notes the London Sunday Times' report that intelligence sources claimed the CIA's top counterterrorism official Robert Grenier was fired in February for opposing the CIA's use of secret prisons abroad, rendering, and torture techniques like waterboarding.  Bush authorized these CIA "special powers" right after 9/11, but they will leave a legacy for generations.

Here's what Hentoff reports about the black sites:

• The House and Senate each passed resolutions in December seeking regular reports on secret CIA prisons, but the resolutions were killed in conference;
• The House International Relations Committee defeated resolutions, on a party line vote, calling for investigations into the Administration's use of torture and secret prisons that are inaccessible to the international Red Cross;
• There is no Congressional oversight of these prisons or prisoners: 
• The CIA itself has debated the legality of secret prisons and what can ultimately be done with the prisoners held there--will they become "the disappeared ones" of our generation?;
• Eight detainees that claim to have been held in a secret prison in Kabul and were later transferred to Guantanamo described their plight as being shackled to rings bolted into walls, deprived of food and water, kept in darkness with loud music blaring, and threatened with rape.

Hentoff ends with a question that we must all ask ourselves. 

"During the campaigning [for the 2006 elections], will there be any mention of the screams in the CIA's underground prisons of darkness?  And if there is, how many Americans will care enough to be repelled by their own silent, passive complicity in the growing moral darkness of this nation's leadership?"

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