Friday, April 29, 2005

Ghost detainees: new rules

The CIA will no longer be allowed to hold unregistered "ghost" detainees at U.S. military prisons such as Iraq's Abu Ghraib, the Pentagon's top intelligence official said on Thursday.

  Yahoo article

They'll have to add rooms on to their secret locations in other countries to take those displaced 'detainees'.

Oh wait. Never mind. It's not even being enforced...
[Undersecretary of defense for intelligence, Stephen] Cambone said the just published interim guidelines were different from a forthcoming Army interrogation manual, which the New York Times said on Thursday would bar harsh techniques disclosed in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.

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"So that assumes there will be no more so-called ghost prisoners in our military prisons?" pressed McCain.

"Sir, to the extent that we can assure you that. I'm here to do that for you," Cambone answered.

McCain satisfied?

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