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Fate of Dozens of CIA Detainees Still Unknown

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(Newser) – The Bush-era CIA memos made public last week revealed that an al-Qaeda suspect, Hassan Ghul, had been held in one of the agency’s secret jails. But the inadvertent disclosure of one name merely highlights how much the public still doesn’t know about the network of secret detention facilities, ProPublica reports. One of the new memos says the CIA held at least 94 people in the facilities as of May 2005.

The identities of 14 of the 94 came to light in September 2006 when Bush transferred them to Guantanamo. At the time, he spoke of “many others” who were released to their home countries for criminal action, but he declined to name them, making it impossible to track them or know how many are left. “The Obama administration needs to reveal the fate and whereabouts of every person who was held in CIA custody," said Human Rights Watch rep.

Central Intelligence Agency Director nominee Leon Panetta testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Central Intelligence Agency Director nominee Leon Panetta testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh/file)
New CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks with reporters at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009.
New CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks with reporters at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency is seen in this undated file photo.
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency is seen in this undated file photo.   (AP)
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If these men are now rotting in some Egyptian dungeon, the administration can't pretend that it's closed the door on the CIA program.
- Joanne Mariner, director of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program at Human Rights Watch

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LibertyMan
Apr 22, 09 2:04 PM CDT
Another proposed infamy of the Left. Shame Shame Shame onto them. Four years from now, the Treason trials can begin for these actions taken against our national security. Reply
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Doctor_Zaius
Apr 22, 09 2:13 PM CDT
You're high right now aren't you?
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SPH
Apr 22, 09 8:04 PM CDT
It is odd that LibertyBoy is more than willing to trade his civil liberties for a false sense of security...Ben Franklin had something to say about that....
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shonangreg
Apr 23, 09 3:51 AM CDT
Look, LibertyMan, as private citizens many of us take our liberties with the law, jay walking, not declaring all income on taxes, etc. However, the government is the one who makes the law. If they can't follow their own laws, then anything goes, including taking away YOUR liberties. "To him whom more is given, more is expected." Government officials MUST follow the law. Anything else is no longer constitutionally limited government; it is totalitarianism. ... I think DZ might be right. Anyone with "liberty" in their name ought to know such things -- even when they're stoned stupid out of their gourd.
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TerrifiedCitizen
Apr 22, 09 2:23 PM CDT
I am trying to visualize being picked up in one of our terror arrest sweeps (with normal bureaucratic precision), but innocent of any wrongdoing. Sitting in a foreign hole with regular visits to the torture chamber resembling the Catholic Inquisition. The food, filth or other conditions may finish me before my captors do. None of my loved ones know where I am, I have no counsel or any contacts that I can tell my innocence to... but I am constantly nearly killed until I make up something to say in desperation that I hope may be believable but am destined to become a mentally, physically and spiritually broken person in the end. Not a very pretty picture. Reply
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