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The CIA's Ghost Prisoners
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... the CIA's secret prisons closed on his second full day in office, but ProPublica reports dozens of the agency's ghost prisoners are still unaccounted for: ...
War and Piece — ... April 22, 2009 Pro publica's Dafna Linzer : Dozens of prisoners held by CIA still missing, fates unknown. Posted by Laura at April 22, 2009 10:19 AM
Bush's Desaparecidos
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... We know the fate of some torture victims who were named "enemy combatants" by president George W. Bush. But there are over three dozen human beings in that category who seem to have disappeared altogether. ProPublica: ...
Torture questions
Ben Smith's Blog —
... But there's also a lot of information still secret, and there have clearly been a lot of unreliable anonymous sources on these issues over the years. There are missing prisoners, ProPublica reported today. So it seems like the sort of thing a Congressional inquiry, or a larger-scale document dump, could resolve, but that seems unlikely to die down without much more detailed answers. ...
The Disappeared
Newshoggers.com —
By Steve Hynd
ProPublica has a list today of thirty five people who were imprisoned in Bush's secret CIA prisons and who have now disappeared - no-one will acknowledge holding them. If former CIA director Michael Hayden was telling the truth when he said only about 100 detainees were ever held at CIA black sites, then over a third have been simply disappeared without trace.
"Making the Justice Department memos on the CIA's secret prison program public was an important first step, but the Obama administration needs to reveal the fate and ...
We Must Be the Voices of the Mothers for These Disappeared
The Moderate Voice —
... Dafna Linzer, writing at ProPublica, reports that about 36 detainees whom the Bush administration had in custody inside secret CIA detention and interrogation centers in Eastern Europe and elsewhere around the globe are still unaccounted for, almost three years after Pres. Bush acknowledged the existence of the black site prisons: ...
The Daily Muck
TPMMuckraker —
... The location of approximately forty prisoners held at CIA secret prisons is still unknown to the public, ProPublica reported Wednesday. The memos released last week showing that the Bush administration approved harsh interrogation techniques, confirmed that one prisoner, Hassan Ghul, was interrogated in a secret prison, but the CIA denies ever holding Ghul and his location remains a secret. The same is true for many war on terror prisoners. President Bush publicly acknowledged the CIA secret programs in 2006 and moved 14 prisoners "with little or no additional ...
On accountability: the chains that bind --
The Reaction —
... Where are the prisoners? As it turns out, there are dozens of prisoners held by the CIA that are still missing and their fates remain unknown. Dafna Linzer, a reporter for the investigative journalism organization, ProPublica, reported this detailed information April 22. In response the CIA claimed that a list provided in the story is probably "flawed." ...
Where Are the CIA's Missing Prisoners?
Daily Kos —
... smashed against a wall, and the "attention grasp [8]," in which the detainee is placed in a choke-hold and slapped. After Dana Priest in the Washington Post exposed the secret prisons in 2005, most of the prisoners were gradually transferred to third countries. But those 35 have vanished. "CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano told ProPublica: "The agency has not, as a rule, commented on these kinds of lists, which are typically flawed." ProPublica reported: "Making the Justice Department memos on the CIA's secret prison ...
History of CIA Torture: Unraveling the Web of Deceit, Part V
The BRAD BLOG —
... which, following revelations of its use during World War I, was banned by what was then more aptly named the War Department.
Three of the 14 were waterboarded.
This is the record for the 14, but how many more were captured and either tortured directly by the CIA or by surrogates inside dungeons under the control of foreign nations? Citing Stephen Bradbury’s May 30, 2005 torture memo [PDF], which established the CIA had at least 94 in custody, Pro Publica asserted there were at least “three dozen still missing.”
Death By Torture ...
