CIA detention program remains active: U.S. official

[babylonsister]

CIA detention program remains active: U.S. official
Thu Oct 4, 2007 10:49pm EDT

By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A secret CIA overseas detention program revealed by President George W. Bush last year remains active and has held at least one al Qaeda militant since then, a U.S. official said on Thursday.

The official confirmed the detention as the White House skirted the question of whether the agency had resumed holding prisoners at secret sites and insisted that the United States does not torture.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that the CIA was again holding prisoners at "black sites" overseas, and that the Justice Department under then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had issued a secret opinion in 2005 that endorsed the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the CIA.

"The ongoing existence of the CIA program is extremely troubling," especially in light of the reported Justice Department opinion, said Elisa Massimino, Washington director of the advocacy group Human Rights First.

The detention and interrogation program, first revealed by The Washington Post in late 2005 and then acknowledged by Bush in September 2006, has provoked an international outcry, with critics accusing the administration of secretly using torture to interrogate terrorism suspects.

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[EFerrari]

1. Have I lost it or didn't Rice say they'd been closed down?

I can't keep up with all their lies any more.

[ShortnFiery]

2. I'm ashamed. That's NOT what The United States of America should stand for ...

but, what the hell, we are now one of the last developed countries to promote Executions.

How we have fallen?

Just tragic. :cry: :(

[Solly Mack]

3. Oh well

Surely if Bush was doing anything illegal - either through international treaty or federal law - our Congress, that august body of principle loving, human rights respecting, defenders of the Constitution would immediately hold the war criminals accountable.

So, obviously, Bush isn't doing anything illegal.