Wednesday, November 02, 2005

CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons

CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

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 now to the Washington Post knows... can't the CIA keep a secret?

I can't help to think that this is going to come back to haunt the U.S. I agree that some of this is necessary, but it seems like there are too many people being kept like this...

1 comments:

Michael said...

How many is "a few" and what do we do with them for the long term?

How many years do they have to be held before any information the may have is too old to use?

They either have to be help secretly forever (or killed) or when they are openly held, they will tell what happened to them in secret US custody. There will be no way to verify or disprove what they say. So this seems like a no-win situation for the US. As a rule, I wish our government would avoid no-win situations.