Govt. Investigation Confirms ABC News Report on Secret CIA Prison

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Source: ABC News

Lithuanian Investigators Say State Security Helped Arrange "Black Site" For al-Qaeda Suspects

A Lithuanian government investigation has confirmed an exclusive ABC News report that the CIA operated a secret black site prison in the country, according to a report on Lithuanian television.

According to Lithuania's LNK TV, sources have told investigators that state security was involved in coordinating the construction of the prison, and have also provided the code name of the operation to transport terror detainees to the prison. Arydas Anusauskas, head of the parliamentary committee investigating the prison, did not respond to an ABC News request for comment, but has previously said the results of the probe will be made public Dec. 22.

On Nov. 18, ABC News revealed the location of a secret prison, where harsh interrogation techniques were allegedly used on accused al-Qaeda terrorists, in a converted horseback riding facility 20 kilometers northeast of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at an attached café, the CIA installed a hidden concrete structure where it could hold up to eight "high value detainees" at a time, a current Lithuanian government official and a former CIA official told ABC News.

For many of the residents of this former Soviet state, it is reminiscent of the KGB's secret prisons. "As a Lithuanian," a local woman told ABC News, "I am not very proud of this."

"The activities in that prison were illegal," said John Sifton, a New York attorney whose firm One World Research investigates human rights abuses. "They included various forms of torture, including sleep deprivation, forced standing, painful stress positions."

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[John N Morgan]

2. But we're looking forward. They were acting in good faith. Nothing to see here, move along.

[democrank]

3. Sickening "Black Site" where people rode show horses!

We can`t stoop any lower.

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

4. This facility is closed.

The CIA opened the prison in Sept. 2004, and closed it in Nov. 2005, former CIA officials told CIA News.

The CIA declined to talk about the prison. "The CIA's terrorist interrogation program is over," said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano. "This agency does not discuss publicly where detention facilities may or may not have been."

[The Stranger]

5. They could probably rent out the Gulag Archipelago.

Get it for cheap, too.

[winyanstaz]

6. but...but...but...I thought Obama said no more torture???

[SpartanDem]

7. The prison is closed

asshole

[winyanstaz]

8. and **** you too :)

p.s. thanks for that information as I did not know it was closed.
Are the other ones closed? nope.