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 US 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 hidden global internment network is a central element in the CIA’s unconventional war on terrorism. It depends on the cooperation of foreign intelligence services, and on keeping even basic information about the system secret from the public, foreign officials and nearly all members of Congress charged with over seeing the CIA’s covert actions.
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(Is America finally awake from its slumber? To know see what the Bush administration has been up too. Corruption, lies, abuse, torture and an unjustifiable war in a country who’s only crime was a dictator that was harming his subjects, but also threatened the President’s daddy back during the Gulf War. It is time to take this untreated ADHD, non-recovering alcoholic and drug addict out of office, on charges of treason, lying to the American public to get a war he was intent on having before entering the White House, for fixing elections so that he would win both times.)
Democrats forced the Senate into a rare closed-door session yesterday, infuriating Republicans but extracting from them a promise to speed up an inquiry into the Bush administration’s handling of intelligence about Iraq’s weapons in the run-up to the war.
With no warning in the mid-afternoon, the Senate’s top Democrat invoked the little-used Rule 21, which forced aides to turn off the chamber’s cameras and close its massive doors after evicting all visitors, reporters and most staffers. Plans to bring in electronic-bug-sniffing dogs were dropped when it became clear that senators would trade barbs but discuss no classified information.
Republicans condemned the Democrats' maneuver, which marked the first time in more than 25 years that one party had insisted on a closed session without consulting the other party. But within two hours, Republicans appointed a bipartisan panel to report on the progress of a Senate intelligence committee report on prewar intelligence, which Democrats say has been delayed for nearly a year.
"Finally, after months and months and months of begging, cajoling, writing letters, we're finally going to be able to have phase two of the investigation regarding how the intelligence was used to lead us into the intractable war in Iraq," Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters, claiming a rare victory for Democrats in the GOP-controlled Congress.
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(It is about damn time the Democrats stood up and stood for something that the American people deserve and answer too. Hell, how about the 2,000+ soldiers who have died and have been wounded in his war of aggression, besides the Iraqi’s who have died needlessly or have been wounded. Time for an accounting for the Bush administration. You might say divine retribution.)
