Raw Story scoop: CIA secret prison in Poland
Larisa Alexandrovna and David Dastych of the Raw Story just broke a story about a secret CIA prison in Poland:
POLAND -- The CIA operated an interrogation and short-term detention facility for suspected terrorists within a Polish intelligence training school with the explicit approval of British and US authorities, according to British and Polish intelligence officials familiar with the arrangements. [RS]
Raw Story was shown a confidential memo indicating that British Prime Minister Tony Blair instructed Poland's then-Prime Minister Leszek Miller to keep the program secret from his own government.
Dana Priest of the Washington Post revealed the existence of the CIA secret prison network in 2005.
I hope that the next president moves worldwide human rights forward instead of backwards.
No secret prisons.
No secret trials.
No locking people up indefinitely without a trial of a jury of their peers.
Posted by: Eric Jaffa | March 07, 2007 at 03:08 PM
The CIA uses small jets registered to nonexistent owners in Oregon and North Carolina to fly suspected terrorists to overseas detention facilities. One of the worst is in Egypt where torture is commonly used. Torture is always nonproductive though, because a prisoner will say anything to stop the pain, besides being morally repugnant.
Posted by: Paul Hooson | March 07, 2007 at 04:02 PM
This could be big. I'm 95% certain that Blair specifically denied any knowledge of secret prisons in Poland. That said, he's in enough trouble at the moment with the cash for honours scandal.
Posted by: Ginger Yellow | March 07, 2007 at 06:52 PM
Yes indeed, the post-Communist world that is Poland: anti-gay legislators, extreme pro-Catholicism, white supremacists, now hosting CIA torture prisons.
How nice.
They've used their freedom to become right wing assholes.
Posted by: Summerisle | March 07, 2007 at 07:30 PM
I can only echo what Paul and Eric say:
>Torture is always nonproductive though, because a prisoner will say anything to stop the pain, besides being morally repugnant.
Eric:
I hope that the next president moves worldwide human rights forward instead of backwards.
No secret prisons.
No secret trials.
No locking people up indefinitely without a trial of a jury of their peers.
That's a reasonable thing to hope for, and I think we have a good chance of seeing it. Keep a good thought.
Posted by: 1984 Was Not a Shopping List | March 08, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Yes indeed, the post-Communist world that is Poland: anti-gay legislators, extreme pro-Catholicism, white supremacists, now hosting CIA torture prisons.
How nice.
They've used their freedom to become right wing assholes.
Not forgetting the allegedly anti-semitic Radio Maryja, the self-styled 'only entirely Polish radio station'.
Posted by: Gag Halfrunt | March 08, 2007 at 09:23 AM