Regarding the CIA’s use of covert ‘black sites’ to detain and interrogate al Qaeda prisoners: “The top 30 al Qaeda prisoners exist in complete isolation from the outside world. Kept in dark, sometimes underground cells, they have no recognized legal rights, and no one outside the CIA is allowed to talk with or even see them, or to otherwise verify their well-being, said current and former and U.S. and foreign government and intelligence officials.”
– Dana Priest, “CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons,” The Washington Post, Nov. 2, 2005