‘Gulag’ leak from CIA men

[emad]

Sunday Times
Tony Allen-Mills



EASTERN European countries were yesterday scrambling to distance themselves from the CIA as officials in Washington searched for the source of an embarrassing leak that exposed a programme of secret jails for terrorist detainees.

Claims that the CIA has been hiding prominent Al-Qaeda members at a so-called “black site” facility in eastern Europe have prompted angry denials from Romania, Poland and Albania.

As details emerged yesterday of CIA flights to remote military airfields in northeast Poland and southeast Romania, George W Bush’s administration ordered an internal inquiry into how classified data was leaked to The Washington Post and Human Rights Watch, a New York-based group.

Senior intelligence sources blamed the leak on CIA officers unhappy at having to maintain what one former counter-terrorism official described as “secret gulags”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1859288,00.html

[Grillydad]

1. How big will this become? n/t

[pushycat]

2. Yes, Let's keep the pressure on to release new Abu Ghraib pics!

Instead of looking into the black site accusation, our Washington 'officials' spend their energy and our treasury looking for the leaker. Doesn't that say it all in plain sight?