Obama allows short-term CIA sites

washingtontimes.com ^ | Jan. 28, 2009 | Eli Lake

[Free ThinkerNY]

President Obama's executive order closing CIA "black sites" contains a little-noticed exception that allows the spy agency to continue to operate temporary detention facilities abroad.

The provision illustrates that the president's order to shutter foreign-based prisons, known as black sites, is not airtight and that the Central Intelligence Agency still has options if it wants to hold terrorist suspects for several days at a time.

Current and former U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition that they aren't identified because of the sensitivity of the subject, said such temporary facilities around the world will remain open, giving the administration the opportunity to seize and hold assumed terrorists.

The detentions would be temporary. Suspects either would be brought later to the United States for trial or sent to other countries where they are wanted and can face trial.

[ilgipper]

This stuff is all political smoke and mirrors designed to make the far left think their guy is doing what he said, and allowing the media to glorify Obama and continue to bash Bush.

[rdl6989]

The DUmp will be thrilled to hear this. /sarcasm

[ken21]

unless the average du person goes out and reads conservative sites,

they may not hear about it.

our news is segmented as the soviet propaganda system was.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Plus ca change.....

[SeaHawkFan]

The detentions would be temporary.

Define temporary. At North Ft. Lewis (WA) in the late 70's, there were "temporary barracks" called T-38s. They were built in 1938 and still in use until at least the early 1980s.

In other words, Obama's order means absolutely nothing.

[SeaHawkFan]

Gitmo isn’t going to close in a year, either. Obama will say he can’t close Gitmo until “other arrangements are made; and that is never going to happen.