CONTACT: taylore@marlboro.edu

July 2, 2009

CIA black sites are still intact

Despite the fact that President Obama signed an executive order on January 22nd that "unilaterally closed" all CIA black sites, it is now being revealed that the CIA has not yet shut down the secret prisons.  Ahmed Ghailani, who is now being tried for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, was reportedly detained at one of these sites, and now his lawyer is asking to inspect them:
"In court papers Tuesday, Ghailani's lawyers asked the government to preserve secret locations known as "black sites" so they can inspect them as they gather evidence for his trial...Kaplan said he was pleased that the government will not dismantle the locations, as the CIA had indicated earlier this year it intended to do."

No comments:

Post a Comment