Black Sites

Lithuania Investigates Secret CIA Prisons

ABC News | Posted 10.21.2009 | World


The president of Lithuania called for an official investigation Tuesday into an ABC News.com exclusive report in August that the CIA housed a secret p...

Obama Administration Still Fighting Release of Torture Evidence

The Washington Independent | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics


This case has dropped a off the radar screen lately, but Bob Egelko at the San Francisco Chronicle today reminds us that the Obama administration is s...

Why Trial Date for African Embassy Bombing Suspect Is Good News

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics


Andy Worthington

The government will not use any statements made by the suspect in secret prisons, nor will the evidence "be very different" from that used when his alleged co-conspirators were tried by the federal court in 2001.

Disappeared in the Name of National Security

Mohamed Farag Bashmilah | Posted 03.22.2009 | World


Mohamed Farag Bashmilah

From October 2003 until May 2005, I was illegally detained by the U.S. government and held in CIA-run "black sites" with no contact with the outside world.

Unspeakable Abuse at Gitmo -- We Need the Names of These "Medical Personnel"

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 03.19.2009 | World


Larisa Alexandrovna

The medical staff at Gitmo who engaged in torture of detainees all violated their oath and should have their medical licenses revoked. I want names.

Cheney Sets the Trap

Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics


Rick Horowitz

You'd think that the at-long-last-former Vice President of the US might take his eight years of power and his 13 points of public approval and slink off to one of those undisclosed locations he liked so much.

Strange Bedfellows at Guantánamo

Jamil Dakwar | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics


Jamil Dakwar

I've been observing the military commissions since 2004, and Guantánamo never felt more surreal or otherworldly than it did in what we hope were its ...

President Obama's Monumental Shutting Down of Disturbing CIA Activities

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics


Vivian Norris de Montaigu

This country was saying and supposedly standing for one thing and then, via these CIA-backed activities, doing the opposite of what a democratic United States stands for.

US Detainee Abuse Drove Prisoner To Brink Of Insanity, New Documents Show

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing i...

Inside The CIA's Black Sites: One Detainee Reports

BBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or "black sites", around the world and accused the US of torture. ...

British MPs To Probe Claims Of CIA Island Prison In Indian Ocean

The Guardian (U.K.) | Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Allegations that the CIA held al-Qaida suspects for interrogation at a secret prison on sovereign British territory are to be investigated by MPs, the...