secret CIA torture prisons in 8 foreign countries
Part of the whole “proud to be an American” concept gets a little sullied when it turns out that we too are whisking people away in the dead of night to sit in a dark solitary cell with no representation and be starved, sleep deprived, and tortured. And apparently this treatment has been given to people who are not terrorists, such as Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen wrongly accused of having attended terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
Before I get too depressed, I’d like to acknowledge that it’s nice to live in a country where the press can freely report on such things and the reporter and publisher don’t end up in the gulag. It’s obvious from the article that some in the CIA are not comfortable with these practices, and are probably risking plenty to leak some details to the press. And the fact that the CIA thought congress and the U.S. public wouldn’t stand for these shenanigans and thus had to keep them so secret is a hopeful sign — if the majority of the public were willing to accept such practices we’d be in an incredibly sorry state.
And now back to your regularly scheduled depression over “the human condition” as expressed in U.S. politics.
















November 2nd, 2005 at 8:03 pm
coooooooool!!! I love your blog. i read this story too and was quite scared off! i am thinking of doing a paper on this…
–ana