Summary
A puzzling question is why the Bush administration stubbornly opposes Sen. John McCain's amendment that would ban abusive treatment of prisoners in American custody. And why has Vice President Dick Cheney tried so hard to persuade the Arizona Republican to exempt the Central Intelligence Agency from the restrictions on torture?
Part of the answer seemed to emerge in a sensational expos by The Washington Post of a secret global prison system operated by the CIA in at least eight countries including Afghanistan, Thailand, several democracies in Eastern Europe, and a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. The Post said it was withholding the names of Eastern European countries involved in the secret program at the request of senior U.S. officials.See the full content of this document
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Why Permit Torture?
Rough outlines of the hidden prison system had emerged earlier in reports that some high-level terrorist susp...
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