Details sought on secret prisons

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By Greg Miller
Originally published May 27, 2006

WASHINGTON // The Senate Intelligence Committee is seeking to force the Bush administration to disclose details about secret overseas prisons thought to be run by the CIA, part of a broader effort by lawmakers to compel the White House to provide more information on sensitive intelligence programs.

Legislation adopted by the committee this week would require the administration for the first time to submit reports to Congress on the treatment of terrorism suspects and the locations of the reported clandestine CIA holding cells scattered around the world ..

The demand for fuller disclosure on the reported CIA prisons was among several provisions in an otherwise routine spending bill adopted by the intelligence committee this week that would make it harder for the White House to withhold information on highly classified programs.

Another provision would require the White House to inform members of the Senate and House intelligence committees when they are being excluded from briefings on secret programs, as many of them were in the case of the domestic wiretapping operation ..

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