Perhaps there s a good reason why the location is a secret. For the life of me, I can t imagine what it might be&

Um, maybe so the prison is NOT ATTACKED BY ISLAMIC TERRORIST, YOU F*C*I*G MORONS!

That could explain why the location is secret. It wouldn’t explain why the existence of such facilities is secret, or why who we are holding is secret, or why the techniques we use for interrogation are secret. or why we won’t let the Red Cross or any other international organization verify any of our claims about the preceding.

So stick that up your asterisks.

To start with, they’re not domestic or internal political prisoners.

The reason why I brought up releasing them is because they must be held, or released.

Perhaps there’s a good reason why the location is a secret. For the life of me, I can’t imagine what it might be…

Um, maybe so the prison is NOT ATTACKED BY ISLAMIC TERRORIST, YOU F*C*I*G MORONS!

Not so Reid won’t find about it!

I heard about these “secret” camps months ago.

But, of course, there’s more [Isn't there always?]:

What is known about CIA activities is that, since 2001, the agency has been transferring or “rendering” suspects to third countries for aggressive interrogation…

The rendition policy was initiated in 1998 by the Clinton White House after the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by terrorists. The intent, says intelligence specialist Wesley Wark, was to bring Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects to the U.S. for prosecution.

Damn that Clinton!

And we should release those prisoners why?

TomY is right, Frank. Nobody said anything about releasing them.

Well, except for you.

But if we’re sooo sure that these prisoners are dangerous and guilty, why do we need to hide them, and hide the fact that we’re holding them, and hide the way we treat them?

I thought we were “spreading freedom and democracy” or some such.

Incidentally, just in case anybody was wondering, the Soviet Gulag was not in eastern Europe.

OK, OK, have it your way. It’s not a gulag, it’s a gulag-related-program-activity.

Incidentally, just in case anybody was wondering, the Soviet Gulag was not in eastern Europe.

I mean, in case.

TomY: And which “gulag” might that be? Guantanamo — where we keep the terrorists who promise that when released, they will re – arm and then kill American soldiers?

And you want them released why?

This one:

The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.

See? You miss some things if you limit your reading to right wing blogs.

Capetbagger has a nice take:

It’s more than a little amusing to hear congressional Republicans worrying about such niceties. Which party likes to hold open five-minute votes indefinitely until the get the results they want? Which party prevents the minority from offering amendments (.pdf) to legislation? Which party forbids the minority from participating in conference committees? Which party shuts down committee hearings went they start to become politically inconvenient? Which party decided that the Senate leader of one party could campaign against the Senate leader of the other party for the first time in American political history?

There are links to back up the specifics over on the Carpetbagger site.

deeply rooted in the Declaration of Independence…….

 Whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it and to institute new government.

Sadie: very cute. IMHO. Leo was comparing the “new, improved” Democrats favorably to the Fascist that marched on Rome.

You working for Diebold now? Or are you just so full of shit that I might smell you through the “internets”?