'Ghost detainees' at Camp Delta

[DoYouEverWonder]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1258099,00.html

Saturday July 10, 2004

The Pentagon planned to continue the indefinite secret confinement of some prisoners at Guantánamo and exclude them from a promised annual review, it emerged yesterday.

The decision offers further evidence for a secret network at Guantánamo, akin to that at Abu Ghraib, whereby "ghost detainees" were under the control of the CIA and not the US military, and never officially entered on the prison's books.

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The plan to deny some prisoners a review of their detention was agreed last month by senior Pentagon officials. It was designed as a response to a review process promised last February by the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. Since then, the supreme court has ruled that Guantánamo prisoners should have their day in court.

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The LA Times quoted top defence officials as saying that prisoners destined for indefinite detention without review were under the control of the CIA, not the Pentagon.

[Blue Gardener]

1. These people have no regard for the Constitution

If they don't like the law, they either change it or ignore it.

[shraby]

2. I sent it to my senator,

Russ Feingold.