Last year, Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller said CIA interrogation techniques "violate all American anti-torture laws," and instructed FBI agents to step outside of the room when the CIA steps in.
Analysts say there are at least a score of unacknowledged facilities around the world. Among them, several in Afghanistan (one known as "the pit") and Iraq, in Pakistan, Jordan, in a restricted unit at Guantanamo, and one, they suspect, on Diego Garcia, where two navy prison ships ferry prisoners in and out.
And:
(R)endering means giving up control to the other country, says Pike, which in turn means only low-value suspects are transferred.
"The CIA keeps the high-level ones to themselves," he says. "And they work them over."
There's more worth reading in the Star's article, but this part alone is frightening enough. If nothing else, this should make for a particularly interesting line of questioning next time someone tries to claim the Bush administration is fighting torture. Anyone want to bet against Scott McClellan saying the reporter should ask the ghost detainees?
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