Posted on 08/22/2009 7:31:01 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
"Irresponsible" To Identify Secret Sites, Says CIA; Lithuania Denies Allegation
A third European country has been identified to ABC News as providing the CIA with facilities for a secret prison for high-value al Qaeda suspects: Lithuania, the former Soviet state.
Former CIA officials directly involved or briefed on the highly classified program tell ABC News that Lithuanian officials provided the CIA with a building on the outskirts of Vilnius, the country's capital, where as many as eight suspects were held for more than a year, until late 2005 when they were moved because of public disclosures about the program. Flight logs viewed by ABC News confirm that CIA planes made repeated flights into Lithuania during that period.
The CIA told ABC News that reporting the location of the now-closed prison was "irresponsible."
"The CIA does not publicly discuss where facilities associated with its past detention program may or may not have been located," said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano. "We simply do not comment on those types of claims, which have appeared in the press from time to time over the years. The dangers of airing such allegations are plain. These kinds of assertions could, at least potentially, expose millions of people to direct threat. That is irresponsible."
Former CIA officials tell ABC News that the prison in Lithuania was one of eight facilities the CIA set-up after 9/11 to detain and interrogate top al Qaeda operatives captured around the world. Thailand, Romania, Poland, Morocco, and Afghanistan have previously been identified as countries that housed secret prisons for the CIA.
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Good for them.
Too bad Obama is now laying our security agencies bare for enemies to tear apart and make propaganda.....
For your list.
These former CIA officials should be tried for treason.
This reporter, Matthew Cole, would sell his own mother down the river for a byline and the chance to be on TV. Anything to make his own country look bad. Since there is no direct attribution for these suppositions, he could have made it all up, for all we know. Have to ask myself, just whose side he is on? I can only hope the CIA is able to continue to do its jobs. I don’t want to know the details, I just want results. And I am not going to waste a single moment feeling sorry for its Al Qaeda targets. No wonder ABC’s ratings are through the floor.
I’m wondering if this has anything to do with Tom Ridge’s new book.
If it had, they would have touted it.
Did he ever name names in his book?
Irresponsible!
GROSS Understatement.
The man is running around destroying structures, relationships and networks that took years to build. Whether they be financial, security infrastructure, defense he is destroying the systems leaving the nation vulnerable. Not only that he has opened up the support system to sabotage, he is leaving them too at risk. This man has no regard for consequence other than ...
the destruction of America and her allies
“Hey you wanted change”, “you voted for me”
lets get wee-weeded up!
Yikes, replace CIA with KGB and you’d swear you were reading a story from the 1960s.
bttt
Lawyers Showed Photos of Covert CIA Officers to Guantanamo Bay
The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
Yup. It really pissed me off.
Interesting about the stories that the msm is interested in. Anything that could be negative against Obama or the dimoKKKRATS all we get is silence. No interest whatsoever.
Maybe the sportscaster over at State Run MSNBC will ask Valeria Plame and her sidekick for their opinions.
BTTT!
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