Does CIA have prison on remote island?

[babylonsister]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/10/19/does_cia_have_prison_on_remote_island/5460/

Does CIA have prison on remote island?

Published: 19, 2007 at 1:53 AM

LONDON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- A British parliamentary committee plans to investigate claims that the CIA operated a "black site" prison on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean.

The British government allowed the United States to lease the entire island as a base more than 30 years ago, forcing its 2,000 residents to move.

The investigation will be done by the all-party foreign affairs committee, The Guardian reported Friday.

Reprieve, a group that represents some detainees being held at Guantanamo, Cuba, has been pushing for the committee to interrogate U.S. and British officials about Diego Garcia.

Reprieve's legal director, Clive Stafford Smith, said he is certain the CIA is operating a secret prison on the island.

The Bush administration has admitted the existence of CIA prisons where suspected terrorists are questioned. But their locations remain a secret.

[BridgeTheGap]

1. They tried to build a facility in the U.S. "off the books"

several years ago until Congress got wind of it and put a stop to it. It's too easy to believe that this group will do ANYTHING.

[cali]

2. I wouldn't be the tiniest bit surprised

and the history of Diego Garcia is shameful indeed.

[Liberal In Texas]

3. I'll bet it's not like this either:

The Prisonerwith Patrick McGoohan 1967-1968

[C_U_L8R]

4. i am not a number, I am a free man !!!

: - )

[aikoaiko]

5. Its a CIA luxury hotel and spa

you can check in anytime, but you can never leave.

[Felinity]

6. Hideous, and what's up?

I tried to rec this thread and it did not work.

Edit: never mind, my computer is busy scanning itself.

[Solly Mack]

7. Dating back 5 years connecting Diego Garcia to secret prisons/torture

2002


CIA accused of torture at Bagram base


"The Washington Post paints a harrowing picture of the procedures for extracting information from terrorism suspects at such centres as Diego Garcia, the Indian Ocean island leased from Britain, and Bagram, the large US airbase in Afghanistan."


U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations

"The off-limits patch of ground at Bagram is one of a number of secret detention centers overseas where U.S. due process does not apply, according to several U.S. and European national security officials, where the CIA undertakes or manages the interrogation of suspected terrorists. Another is Diego Garcia, a somewhat horseshoe-shaped island in the Indian Ocean that the United States leases from Britain."


2003

CIA's proxy torture undermines law -- and our humanity

"The article, by Dana Priest and Barton Gellman of the Washington Post, graphically reveals how U.S. interrogators at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, and at other overseas sites, have brutally treated al Qaeda and Taliban forces in a "brass-knuckled quest for information" to uncover future terrorist plots.

These detention centers (including the Bagram and Diego Garcia facilities) are off limits to independent agencies such as the Red Cross, which might monitor prisoner conditions and treatment."


2007

Records show Diego Garcia link to alleged torture flights

"The journeys of the aircraft, a Gulfstream registered N379P, are disclosed in a list of more than 3,000 flight logs obtained by Stephen Grey, an investigative journalist and author of Ghost Plane. The same aircraft flew from Washington via Athens to the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia, the logs show. It is the first time that the British-owned territory, where the US has a large airbase, has been linked to the controversial CIA flights. Though there have been persistent reports in the US that detainees have been secretly held in Diego Garcia, the British government has always dismissed the claims."