Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Details posted on alleged CIA-flights to Poland

It's like I always say - secret torture prisons are as American as apple pie. Don't you think?

    Associated Press -

    A government-run agency has for the first time provided official records confirming the landing in Poland of planes associated with the CIA's secret detainee program, two human rights groups said Monday.

    The data adds support to findings from a 2007 Council of Europe report that accused 14 European governments of permitting the CIA to run detention centers or carry out secret flights between 2002 and 2005, the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights said.

    Though flight logs did not reveal that prisoners were on the plane, it confirmed the flights landed in Poland, which the country has previously denied, said Adam Bodnar of the Helsinki Foundation.

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