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August 13, 2007

The Black Sites: A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program

Jane Mayer, The Black Sites: A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program. The New Yorker, 13 August 2007. After 11 September 2001 a secret C.I.A. program was started “in which terrorist suspects…were detained in ‘black sites’–secret prisons outside the United States–and subjected to unusually harsh treatment.” [Read more…]

August 13, 2007 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Law, National Security, Torture, War/War crimes Tagged With: "black sites", al qaeda, attorney general alberto gonzales, central intelligence agency (cia), daniel pearl, geneva conventions, international committee of the red cross (icrc) report on the treatment of fourteen 'high value detainees' in cia custody, khalid el-masri, khalid sheikh mohammed, mariane pearl, secret interrogations, sensory deprivation, torture