Secret prisons - different from "rendition" to other countries?
"About 30 are considered major terrorism suspects and have been held under the highest level of secrecy at black sites financed by the CIA and managed by agency personnel, including those in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, according to current and former intelligence officers and two other U.S. government officials. Two locations in this category -- in Thailand and on the grounds of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay -- were closed in 2003 and 2004, respectively.
A second tier -- which these sources believe includes more than 70 detainees -- is a group considered less important, with less direct involvement in terrorism and having limited intelligence value. These prisoners, some of whom were originally taken to black sites, are delivered to intelligence services in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Afghanistan and other countries, a process sometimes known as "rendition." While the first-tier black sites are run by CIA officers, the jails in these countries are operated by the host nations, with CIA financial assistance and, sometimes, direction."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644_pf.html
In wartime, I would expect CIA and similar operators to have safe houses scattered around the globe, I would be shocked if they didn't. I expect them to have secure locations where they can conduct their interrogations, and I expect that terrorists taken down in their operations will have to be dealt with, meaning in many cases incarcerated for a time.
I don't expect many of them to be incarcerated in 5 star hotels.
That doesn't disturb me in the least.
I am disturbed that people supposedly in the know are discussing it with the New York Times, or the Washington Post, and that politicians and pundits are trying to make hay out of it. Don't get me wrong, as a news junkie I love reading articles such as the ones you link. I am disturbed that someone on Rockefeller's committee, perhaps Rockefeller himself, is talking to the press. I'm disturbed that maybe people in the intelligence community itself is trying to blow an operation by leaking it to the press.