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date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:22:22 GMT,    group: uk.current-events.terrorism        back       
Drip by drip, the truth comes out   
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1828469,00.html

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British Territory Used for US Terrorism Interrogation

According to a former senior American official, it appears another locale
can be added to the international roster of interrogation sites ... The
source tells TIME that in 2002 and possibly 2003, the U.S. imprisoned and
interrogated one or more terrorism suspects on Diego Garcia, an island in
the Indian Ocean controlled by the United Kingdom.

The official, a frequent participant in White House Situation Room meetings
after Sept. 11 who has since left government, says a CIA counterterrorism
official twice said that a high-value prisoner or prisoners were being held
and interrogated on the island. The identity of the captive or captives was
not made clear. According to this account, the CIA officer surprised
attendees by volunteering the information, apparently to demonstrate that
the agency was doing its best to obtain valuable intelligence. According to
this single source, who requested anonymity because of the classified nature
of the discussions, the U.S. may also have kept prisoners on ships within
Diego Garcia's territorial waters, a contention the U.S. has long denied.

TIME discussed the allegation with Richard Clarke, who served as a special
adviser to Bush on the National Security Council dealing with
counterterrorism until 2003 but is not the source for this story. "In my
presence, in the White House, the possibility of using Diego Garcia for
detaining high-value targets was discussed," he says. Clarke did not witness
a final resolution of the issue, but adds, "Given everything that we know
about the Administration's approach to the law on these matters, I find the
report that the U.S. did use the island for detention or interrogation
entirely credible."

Clarke, who was in charge of U.S.-U.K. cooperation on Diego Garcia in the
early '90s, says using the island for interrogations or detentions without
British permission "is a violation of U.K. law, as well as of the bilateral
agreement governing the island."

A CIA spokesman says there have been no changes in the agency's position on
Diego Garcia since February 2008, when CIA director Michael Hayden admitted
that the agency's previous denials about U.S. activities on the island were
incorrect.

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Oh look, another of those "previous denials were incorrect" statements, or
as most people know it, the US caught lying.

How many more US lies are left to be uncovered ?
date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:22:22 GMT   author:   The Happy Hippy

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