“An investigation by the Council of Europe in June [7] 2007 confirmed reports of secret CIA prisons in Europe and other locations, which had first surfaced in 2005. The investigation, conducted by Swiss senator Dick Marty, concluded that ‘large numbers of people had been abducted across the world’ and transferred to countries where ‘torture is common practice.’ Others were kept in ‘arbitrary detention without any precise charge’ and without any judicial oversight. Still others had ‘disappeared for indefinite periods, held in secret prisons, including in member-states of the Council of Europe, the existence and operation of which had been concealed.’ Marty reported that these people were subjected to degrading treatment and torture in order to extract information, however unsound, that America claimed ‘had protected our common security.’ Prisoners were interrogated ceaselessly and were physically and psychologically abused before being released because they were ‘plainly not the people being sought.’ The report said that these were the terrible consequences of the war on terror. It specifically named Romania and Poland as places where the CIA ran secret prisons and torture centers.”
– Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 78