CIA fires contractors guarding secret prisons

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teleprompter at 08:42 AM JST - 10th April

"Between 2002 and 2006, the CIA held and interrogated fewer than 100 prisoners, former CIA Director Michael Hayden told Congress last year. It used harsh interrogation methods on about a third of them. Three prisoners were subjected to the waterboard, a form of simulated drowning."

'Harsh interrogatin methods' and even waterboarding!

Just doesn't titillate or, uh, outrage 'liberal' sensibilities like it did in the run-up to the media and entertainment industry's coronation of their chosen one, does it.
bushlover at 09:19 AM JST - 10th April

I'm shocked!! Has watching 24 and Jack Bauer methods desensitised these spooks?
tantantanuki at 11:45 AM JST - 10th April

The clean-up continues.
Way to go.
teleprompter at 11:52 AM JST - 10th April

Yes, yes, this will undoubtedly win the hearts and minds of Taliban/Al Qaeda holy warriors (and their financiers) everywhere. And it will spur European efforts to match American commitment in Afghanstan. And there will be unicorns.
adaydream at 12:18 PM JST - 10th April

It's perfectly alright to torture, even though they never got any useful information.

I'm glad they quit the practice.

Both the White House and Congress have launched reviews of the CIA’s detention practices during the presidency of George W Bush, Obama’s predecessor. The reviews are to determine the legal authority of the Bush-era CIA detention program and to find out exactly what occurred.

I liked that part. < :-)
bushlover at 12:53 PM JST - 10th April

[even though they never got any useful information.] I'm sure they'd go and tell you exactly what information was collected. According to your liberal media blabbermouths there is nothing and that's a good thing. Reality may be different though. Keep on fightin for the rights of murderers though. The liberal crowd loves it.
adaydream at 01:22 PM JST - 10th April

Beat them for the fun of it. No different then Abu Ghrabe. That was another pretty interrogation palace. < :-)
GJDailleult at 02:38 PM JST - 10th April

You winger boys will jump at any chance to bang out the word "liberal" on your keyboards won't ya! No leg to stand on this time though. According to traditional Yankee neo-con ideology/dogma/gibberish the "War on Terror" was and had to be a military action and not a police/intelligence action. Treating terrorism as a matter for police and intelligence agencies to deal with was how those namby-pamby Eurowimps did things. Cheney even said so last month - "Cheney said the administration appears to be returning to the pre-2001 model of treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue, rather than a military problem." (CNN) Well, if it's true that it's a military problem then obviously dealing with prisoners should be the responsibility of the US military, and not the CIA or their private contractors. Talk about trying to have your cake and eat it too.
teleprompter at 02:51 PM JST - 10th April

[Yawn]

Close one operation down, start another:

CIA tracking 4000 UK terror suspects

January 5, 2009 THE CIA has begun an unprecedented intelligence-gathering operation in Britain to help MI5 monitor 4000 terrorist suspects."

More than four out of 10 CIA operations to prevent attacks on US soil are now conducted against targets in Britain.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/cia-tracking-4000-uk-terror-suspects-20090104-79u6.html?page=-1
Madverts at 02:58 PM JST - 10th April

Tracking terror subjects as opposed to torturing them 'aint the same operation my boy.
dennis0bauer at 03:29 PM JST - 10th April

for a second i read CIA fires on contractors guarding secret prisons.

Get a female dominatrix as guard that would scare a moslim fundamentalist :p
SuperLib at 04:32 PM JST - 10th April

Looks like just another name change to me.
jambon at 04:53 PM JST - 10th April

The secret prisons are now empty, Panetta said. The agency has taken no new prisoners since he became director in February, he said, and the agency is preparing to decommission the prisons permanently.

Save USD4M to guard empty prisons? This guy Panetta has a lot on the ball.
JoeBigs at 08:28 PM JST - 10th April

teleprompter at 11:52 AM JST - 10th April Yes, yes, this will undoubtedly win the hearts and minds of Taliban/Al Qaeda holy warriors (and their financiers) everywhere.

Not even you can believe that.

What it has brought is a sense of relief to Americans who care about our leadership in the world. No longer are we going to be compared to those far right regimes that used torture to get the answers they wanted.

Slowly, hopefully the damage the Bush administration did to our nations prestige will be fixed.