Thursday, April 09, 2009

CIA to Close Secret Black Prisons Abroad and to NO longer use Contractors


This News came out 10 Minutes ago, and has not hit the MSM airwaves yet tonight.... read this Snippet from the NYT:
"WASHINGTON -- The Central Intelligence Agency announced on Thursday that it will no longer use contractors to conduct interrogations, and that it is decommissioning the secret overseas sites where for years it held high-level Al Qaeda prisoners.
In a statement to the agency's work force, the director, Leon E. Panetta, said that the secret detention facilities were no longer in operation, but he suggested that security and maintenance have been continued at the sites at taxpayers' expense.

"I have directed our agency personnel to take charge of the decommissioning process, and have further directed that the contracts for site security be promptly terminated," Mr. Panetta said. "It is estimated that our taking over site security will result in savings of up to $4 million."
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More From the Guardian ....

11 comments:

Larry said...

Lets hope it lasts.

enigma4ever said...

well, let's hope it is the beginning of things to come...
we still have much to watch for...Gitmo and the Ethics office, the Fired US Attorneys, Siegelman, the NSA spying, and the Terra List etc etc..

Annette said...

Pres. Obama said this when he announced Gitmo closing.. it just got covered over.

enigma4ever said...

yeah...I blogged it on day 4 too...BUT now that the there are more statements on it ....ahhhh, it's happening...a good thing ..

( I would not believe it until the New CIA person validated it...)

enigma4ever said...

actually he never said anything about the Contractors...so that makes this even better...

tom said...

Thank gawd for that, now perhaps we can get all the torture memos released, and who knows what else...
Maybe an indictment for Karl Rove?
(one can dream, can't one)

Gryphen said...

Thank God!

I was really beginning to worry about this administration.

Good catch Enigma.

Lulu Maude said...

YAY LEON!!

He was my Congressman when I lived in California.

Good guy.

enigma4ever said...

yeah...Leon is getting busy...
Hey there Gman, Lulu....and Tom...

yeah...I am feeling hopeful that Things are Staring to Shift on Certain Fronts...Gitmo and Torture...the maybe Illegal Spying...and maybe Investigating ALL this...and also Fixing the JD and all the other Agencies...

enigma4ever said...

hey all think on it where were you a year ago ? were you stomping your hood for Obama ? were trying to figure out if it was going to be Obama or Clinton? a year ago we were still listening to the Rec Wright Crap shoved down our throats right now - remember ?

wow...
alot can change in a year....

Distributorcap said...

first --- doesnt this say that there WERE secret torture prisons? as glad as i am that this over -- and it is time to admit what criminal behavior this country has engagedin

but doing this to save money?