Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[TJ Parker]

goodness. what country am i living in? Fearless Leader is at it again ... no wonder they wouldn't let these guys testify at that padilla trial. can't let the world hear about interrogation methods.

Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda Interrogations

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/politics/13DETA.html?ei=5062&en=f4df7ec51a3252e0&ex=108502...

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"There was a debate after 9/11 about how to make people disappear," a former intelligence official said.

The result was a series of secret agreements allowing the C.I.A. to use sites overseas without outside scrutiny.

So far, the Bush administration has not said what it intends to do over the long term with any of the high-level detainees, leaving them subject to being imprisoned indefinitely without any access to lawyers, courts or any form of due process.

Some officials have suggested that some of the high-level detainees may be tried in military tribunals or officially turned over to other countries, but counterterrorism officials have complained about the Bush administration's failure to have an "endgame" for these detainees. One official said they could also be imprisoned indefinitely at a new long-term prison being built at Guantánamo.