Secret CIA Prisons Only The Beginning?

Posted on Wednesday 30 November 2005

Yesterday on Democracy Now, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh played down the story of secret CIA prisons and torture as “not where the real game is.”
AMY GOODMAN: By the way, do you believe that the secret prisons are in Romania and Poland, as Human Rights Watch believes, that the Washington Post won’t name, but exposed?

SEYMOUR HERSH: Well, Amy, Im actually doing some more work on it. But I will tell you this, the C.I.A. prisons are there. There have been prisons, the C.I.A. has run prisons for many, many years around the world. And I’m sure terrible things happen. But that’s actually not where the real game is. They’re somewhere else.

AMY GOODMAN: Where?

SEYMOUR HERSH: Other places. I’m — let me do my reporting, and I promise I’ll publish it, and I promise I’ll come and talk to you about it.

3 Comments for 'Secret CIA Prisons Only The Beginning?'

  1.  
    michael
    November 30, 2005 | 8:23 am
     

    Ominous. It is also not clear if what Hersh means by “the real game” is another prison site (or sites) or something different, more important, and, inevitably, worse. You should follow the commentary on Democracy Now to see if Hersh or someone else sheds some light on this.

  2.  
    Michael
    December 1, 2005 | 4:54 pm
     

    Today Hersh gave an interview on the Brian Lehrer Show, but did not touch on this topic. He mostly talked about the anticipated shift from a US ground presence to an air presence in Iraq.

  3.  
    April 25, 2006 | 10:36 pm
     

    wonder if this is what he was talking about

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