Rockefeller mulls secret prison shutdown

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Source: KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is questioning whether the CIA's secret prison program — which he fears has become a black eye to the United States — should continue.

The review led by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., comes as the Bush administration deliberates an executive order, called for by Congress, that will establish new guidelines for the CIA's system for detaining and interrogating suspected terrorists. It is the agency's most publicly controversial intelligence collection program.

Rockefeller says there is no doubt that intelligence from detainees has been valuable. Yet he says he wonders whether the CIA needed to create a system outside of long-standing FBI and military interrogation programs.

Rockefeller's spokeswoman, Wendy Morigi, said he has not been convinced that the CIA prisons produce better intelligence than the FBI and military systems.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070324/ap_on_go_co/cia_secret_prisons_1

[annabanana]

1. Gee Whiz, Jay. . . Ya Think?

There should never have been any question....

[Solly Mack]

2. No comment

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. sigh

[mike_c]

4. the fact that American legislators are even asking this question...

...is shameful.

[youngdem]

5. Wow, go out on a limb Rocky

:eyes:

NO SHIT they should be shut down.

They should have been shut down LONG, LONG ago.

This is a black eye on America and an anvil hanging over our troops serving overseas.

[nealmhughes]

6. What secret prisons? The ones where we don't let the Red Cross or attorneys go and do not toruture?

[Morgana LaFey]

7. The ones that don't exist, silly

:sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

8. Torture is now normalized. What have we become?

[merwin]

9. It's not torture. It's thorough interrogation, nothing more.

I suppose you are one of the troop haters that want the terrorists to come and bomb us again!

[BushOut06]

10. What the fuck is there to question?

Secret prisons? Torture?

Seriously - did anyone think we'd be using these terms to describe American policy prior to 2000? What kind of fucking world is this, when our own Democrats aren't sure whether we should continue these despicable practices?

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