CIA to close secret prisons used to torture al Qaeda operatives.Byline: ANI Washington, Apr 10 (ANI): The Central Intelligence Agency has said that it would decommission de·com·mis·sion tr.v. de·com·mis·sioned, de·com·mis·sion·ing, de·com·mis·sions To withdraw (a ship, for example) from active service. the secret overseas prisons where it subjected al Qaeda prisoners to brutal interrogation interrogation In criminal law, process of formally and systematically questioning a suspect in order to elicit incriminating responses. The process is largely outside the governance of law, though in the U.S. methods, bringing to a symbolic close the most controversial counter-terrorism program of the Bush Administration. CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). Director Leon E. Panetta however said agency officers who worked in the program "should not be investigated, let alone punished" because the Justice Department under then President George W. Bush had declared their actions legal. Panetta and other top Obama Administration officials have said they believe that waterboarding, the near-drowning method used in 2002 and 2003 on three prisoners, is torture, which is illegal under American and international law, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times reported. The International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. , which interviewed 14 prisoners, said in a report made public this week that prisoners were also repeatedly slammed into walls, forced to stand for days with their arms handcuffed to the ceiling, confined in small boxes and held in frigid frig·id adj. 1. Extremely cold. 2. Persistently averse to sexual intercourse. cells. Panetta said the secret detention facilities were no longer in operation, but he suggested that security and maintenance had been continuing at the sites at the taxpayers' expense since they were emptied under Bush in 2006. The CIA has never revealed the location of its so-called black sites overseas, but intelligence officials, aviation records and news reports have placed them in Afghanistan, Thailand, Poland, Romania and Jordan, among other countries. Agency officials have said that fewer than 100 prisoners have been held since the program was created in 2002, and about 30 were subjected to what the CIA called "enhanced" interrogation techniques. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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