It's official, there're indeed (publicly) secret CIA prisons, and a public commitment towards improvement :"All suspects will now be treated under new guidelines issued by the Pentagon on Wednesday, which bring all military detainees under the protection of the Geneva Convention. The move marks a reversal in policy for the Pentagon, which previously argued that many detainees were unlawful combatants who did not qualify for such protections. The new guidelines forbid all torture, the use of dogs to intimidate prisoners, water boarding - the practice of submerging prisoners in water - any kind of sexual humiliation, and many other interrogation techniques."
I assume operating such facilities in the Twilight Zone is flexible from an interrogation point of view, what makes me wonder though is how justified kidnappings of alleged terrorists by recruiting local intelligence agents are. Guess a guy I had a hot discussion with the other night was right, no more Russian skirmishes in guerilla warfare, the adversary leaders just dissapear and no one, even their forces ever hear anything of them -- spooky special forces stealing the hive's queen.
In case you're also interested in DoD's New Detainee Interrogation Policy, it's already available at the FAS's blog, plus "biographies" of 14 detainees.
However, there's one thing the entire synthetic community would always be thankful to the CIA though, and that's the LSD, a proven "ice breaker" during the decades.
Graph courtesy of Spiegel.de
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