Posted on 12/16/2004 7:25:57 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Within the heavily guarded perimeters of the Defense Department's much-discussed Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, the CIA has maintained a detention facility for valuable al Qaeda captives that has never been mentioned in public, according to military officials and several current and former intelligence officers.
The buildings used by the CIA are shrouded by high fences covered with thick green mesh plastic and ringed with floodlights, officials said. They sit within the larger Camp Echo complex, which was erected to house the Defense Department's high-value detainees and those awaiting military trials on terrorism charges.
The facility has housed detainees from Pakistan, West Africa, Yemen and other countries under the strictest secrecy, the sources said. "People are constantly leaving and coming," said one U.S. official who visited the base in recent months. It is unclear whether the facility is still in operation today. The CIA and the Defense Department declined to comment.
Most international terrorism suspects in U.S. custody are held not by the CIA but by the Defense Department at the Guantanamo Bay prison. They are guaranteed access to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and, as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this year, have the right to challenge their imprisonment in federal courts.
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I certainly would not have expected anything other than
this, it only makes sense.
When is this country going to wake up!
Only liberal idjits think the CIA puts it's captures up at the Hilton, I'm sure there are several secure facilities
around the world. A good thing too.
But is it really a surprise to anybody that the US would be maintaining a super-secure detainment & interrogation facility for the high-value captives.
Is this supposed to be a "scandal"...?
How does Drudge's push for the story affect it?
Sounds to me like some CIA employees need to be transferred to Gitmo.
Why the hell is anyone telling us?
The Dems are just getting started on the impeachment. They're pining for an Iran-Contra.
You can bet they'll try, but with a Republican majority it won't get anywhere.
That's interesting. I don't see a solid conservative base to defend us. What a prick Lott was the other day, not to mention McCain, Collins, and the remainder.
Just what side is the Washington Post on? I don't mind that these wimpy libs have a death wish, but do they have to take the rest of us with them?
Why should we believe what they say?
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