The CIA's Disappeared (washingtonpost.com): "the White House, the Pentagon and the CIA have fought to preserve the exceptional and sometimes secret policies that allow U.S. personnel to violate the Geneva Conventions and other laws governing the handling and interrogation of foreign detainees. Under those policies, practices at odds with basic American values continue -- even if there are no sensational photos to document them.
The latest example concerns 'ghost prisoners,' suspects captured in Iraq and Afghanistan who are interrogated by the CIA in secret locations, sometimes outside those countries, and whose identities and locations are withheld from relatives, the International Red Cross and even Congress. For all practical purposes, they have 'disappeared,' like the domestic detainees of some notorious dictatorships. The first official Army investigation into the abuses at Abu Ghraib called this practice 'deceptive, contrary to Army doctrine and in violation of international law.' Yet, according to reporting by The Post's Dana Priest, the CIA subsequently transported as many as a dozen more 'ghost detainees' out of Iraq to interrogate them in its secret prisons."
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