Looks like a confession from here

[redbird]

According to the BBC and other news sources, the CIA is starting a probe to find out who leaked charges that they are running a system of secret prisons where people are tortured.

Either I'm missing something, or this is the CIA's way of saying "We're not allowed to say so publicly, but this is true." If it isn't true, there was nothing to leak and no classified information involved. If I wrote an article saying "The CIA is run by Martians from inside the Hollow Earth," they might refer me to a psychiatrist, but they wouldn't be asking who told me.

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[sythyry.livejournal.com]

One might wonder when and if there would be a probe into the truth of this system of secret torture prisons. One might wonder why the leak, and not the alleged camps, were considered the greater wickedness in the eyes of gods and mortals and the CIA.

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

I hope they announce who the leaker is, because I want to buy that person a drink.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

A bigger story, though -- at least from my perspective -- is the European nations who have been fingered as the "hosts" of these CIA torture farms: principally, Poland and Romania.

The former is a member of the EU and the latter is a candidate for accession in 2007. Both are required (have been required) to subscribe to various EU and Council of Europe human rights measures, and adapt their legal systems accordingly. If it turns out that they have allowed CIA torture farms onto their territories, then they are in breach of their undertakings and have violated their own laws.

In the past, this sort of thing has always been the excuse for refusing to open discussions with Turkey about its repeated applications for EU membership. So we (the EU Commission) should apply this criterion equally: suspend the Romanian accession process and refuse Polish participation in EU business until the issue has been resolved.

Because -- tediously technical and legalistic though this may sound -- it would probably force the fastest disclosure of the location of the CIA torture farms.

[redbird]

Poland and Romania have--truthfully or not, I have no way of knowing--denied any involvement in these crimes. The U.S. government has said "We haven't broken any laws, and we're going to try to find out who revealed that we've done these horrible things that we claim are legal."

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

Of course they'll deny it -- they can't really do anything else!

(And by denying it, they buy time to bundle the CIA off their territory and close down the operation in advance of any inspection visit.)