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2009-04-12 Home Front: WoT

CIA Has Quit Operating Secret Jails, Panetta Says

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Posted by Steve White 2009-04-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 What about the plans re. reeducation camps for Enemies of the People?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-04-12 06:26|| 2009-04-12 06:26|| Front Page Top

#2 The CIA no longer operates any secret overseas prisons, Director Leon Panetta said yesterday, and has not detained anyone since he became chief in February

1 - it's been subcontracted out to foreigners while we get still get the dividends. Moving the assets off the balance sheet just like a bunch of sub-prime paper on the banks' books.
2 - Bushie did such a good job of rounding up the so many key targets that grouse hunting is miserable right now.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-04-12 08:52|| 2009-04-12 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 "Bushie did such a good job of rounding up the so many key targets that grouse hunting is miserable right now."
You never saw pirates bothering Americans much during the Bush administration either, just Europeans.
Give it time.

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Thavimble3591 2009-04-12 11:22|| 2009-04-12 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Panetta said that the CIA "retains the authority to detain individuals on a short-term transitory basis"

Translation: We reserve the authority to continue Slow-Boat interrogations.
Hey Mahmoodnext Port o callsunny Diego Garcia.

Posted by DepotGuy 2009-04-12 12:57|| 2009-04-12 12:57|| Front Page Top

#5 I read elsewhere that both the CIA and the military interpreted this to mean "No more prisoners". That is, there really is no more need to capture either Taliban or al-Qaeda, because none of them have anything to tell us, and we are not required by the Geneva Conventions to make them prisoners. We can execute them at will.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-04-12 13:43|| 2009-04-12 13:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Moose, all in accordance with the Geneva conventions.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-04-12 13:54|| 2009-04-12 13:54|| Front Page Top

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