Polish Senator's Startling New Allegations about the CIA Torture Prison in Poland
In the long quest for accountability for those who ordered, authorized, or were complicit in the Bush administration's torture program, every avenue has been shut down within the United States by the Obama administration, the Justice Department, and the courts. The only hope lies elsewhere in the world, and specifically Poland, one of three European countries that hosted secret CIA prisons where "high-value detainees" were subjected to torture.
The other two countries -- Romania and Lithuania -- either have refused to accept that a secret prison existed or have opened and then prematurely shut an investigation. But Poland has an ongoing official investigation that began four years ago and shows no sign of being dismissed, even if numerous obstacles to justice have been erected along the way.
Last week, two U.S. news outlets -- the Los Angeles Times and ABC News -- reported the latest claims of Senator Jozef Pinior. ABC News explained that he told the Polish newspaperGazeta Wyborcza that prosecutors "have a document that shows a local contractor was asked to build a cage at Stare Kiekuty." That was the Polish army base used by the CIA as its main prison for "high-value detainees" from December 2002 (when the previous prison in Thailand was closed down) until September 2003, when, for six months, the main "high-value detainees" were held in a secret prison within Guantanamo before being transferred back to facilities in Europe and Morocco. Fourteen "high-value detainees" were eventually returned to Guantanamo as military prisoners in September 2006.
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