If it were just once, maybe I would understand, but THIS IS HAPPENING EVERY DAY, ALL DAY LONG!!!!!! I'm getting TWO or THREE of these a DAY NOW!!
What is with the CENSORSHIP and OMISSIONS, Globe?
You DON'T WANT me reading the PAPER anymore, fine!!!
But if you think I'll be VISITING the WEBSITE and LINKING YOUR STORIES you are going to find you are SADLY MISTAKEN!
As with your bastard parent the NYT, when I STOP BUYING a PAPER I STOP VISITING WEB SITES and LINKING PRODUCT!!!
Bye-bye, Globe!!!!
"Ex-CIA official tells how secret jails were built; Secret prisons’ construction fairly mundane" by David Johnston and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times | August 13, 2009
WASHINGTON - In March 2003, two CIA officials surprised Kyle D. Foggo, then the chief of the agency’s main European supply base, with an unusual request. They wanted his help building secret prisons to hold some of the world’s most threatening terrorists.
Foggo, nicknamed Dusty, was known inside the agency as a cigar-waving, bourbon-drinking operator, someone who could get a cargo plane flying anywhere in the world or quickly obtain weapons, food, money - whatever the CIA needed. His unit in Frankfurt was strained by the spy agency’s operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, but Foggo agreed to the assignment.
“It was too sensitive to be handled by headquarters,’’ he said in an interview. “I was proud to help my nation.’’
With that, Foggo went on to oversee construction of three detention centers, each built to house about a half-dozen detainees, according to former intelligence officials and others briefed on the matter. One jail was a renovated building on a busy street in Bucharest, Romania, the officials disclosed. Another was a steel-beam structure at a remote site in Morocco that was apparently never used.
And if you believe that.... what did your tax dollars go for, 'murkn?
Yup, and DICK CHENEY'S ASSASSINATION RING never got off the ground either, lying, cover-up crapola media!
The third, another remodeling project, was outside another former Eastern bloc city. They were designed to appear identical, so that prisoners would be disoriented and not know where they were if they were shuttled back and forth. They were kept in isolated cells.
The existence of the network of prisons to detain and interrogate senior operatives of Al Qaeda has long been known, but details about them have been a closely guarded secret. In recent interviews, though, several former intelligence officials have provided a fuller account of how they were built, where they were located and life inside them.
And the GLOBE DECIDED this WASN'T IMPORTANT enough for NEWSPAPER READERS to see, huh?
Foggo has acknowledged a role. He pleaded guilty last year to a fraud charge involving a contractor that equipped the CIA jails and provided other supplies to the agency, and he is now serving a three-year sentence in a Kentucky prison.
But HE'S a PATRIOT!!!
I can see why the Globe didn't want this in the printed paper now.
The CIA prisons would become one of the Bush administration’s most extraordinary counterterrorism programs, but setting them up was fairly mundane, according to the intelligence officials.
Yeah, unless you had to LIVE IN ONE as a PRISONER!!!!
Foggo relied on CIA finance officers, engineers, and contract workers to build the jails. As they neared completion, he turned to a small company linked to Brent R. Wilkes, an old friend and a San Diego military contractor. The business provided toilets, plumbing equipment, stereos, video games, bedding, night-vision goggles, earplugs, and wrap-around sunglasses. Some products were bought at Target and
Foggo, 55, would not discuss classified details about the jails. He was not charged in connection with the prisons but instead accused of steering other CIA business to Wilkes’s companies in exchange for expensive vacations and other favors. Before leaving the CIA in 2006, he had become its third-highest official, and his plea was an embarrassment for the agency.
Yeah, THANKS for COVERING THEIR ASSES here, Globe!
After the 2001 terrorist attacks, the intelligence world’s embrace of dark-of-night snatch-and-grabs, hidden prisons, and interrogation tactics that critics condemned as torture has stained the CIA’s reputation and led to legal challenges, investigations, and internal divisions. The Justice Department is now considering opening a criminal investigation, with much of the attention focused on the agency’s network of secret prisons, which have become known as the “black sites.’’
Pffft!
Yeah, Obama's Justice is going to investigate what is CONTINUING as I TYPE!
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Can you SEE WHY I am TIRED of the RANK, STINK-F*** AmeriKan MSM, world?
If they aren't PRINTING FANTASTIC LIES they are OMITTING VITAL INFORMATION -- while PRINTING CRAP in the paper!!!!
I mean, the BLUE Xs through the articles I don't cover do NOT LIE!!!
