Secret network of CIA prisons

[TankGirl]

It seems now clear that the CIA has a secret network of prisons as reported by L.A. Times, Fox News and Washington Times among others.

Washington Times:

Guantanamo, however, is not the worst problem. As The Post's Dana Priest reported yesterday, the CIA maintains its own network of secret prisons, into which 100 or more terrorist suspects have "disappeared" as if they were victims of a Third World dictatorship. Some of the 30 most important prisoners are being held in secret facilities in Eastern European countries -- which should shame democratic governments that only recently dismantled Soviet-era secret police apparatuses. Held in dark underground cells, the prisoners have no legal rights, no visitors from outside the CIA and no checks on their treatment, even by the International Red Cross. President Bush has authorized interrogators to subject these men to "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment that is illegal in the United States and that is banned by a treaty ratified by the Senate. The governments that allow the CIA prisons on their territory violate this international law, if not their own laws.

So not only is US using old commie methods for handling the 'enemies of state' - they are even using old commie facilities for that, utilizing their ready-built torture rooms and having it even easier to skip inconveniences like the Geneva Convention. What a model democracy for the world indeed.