Warsaw
The CIA exploited NATO agreements to run its secret prisons in Poland and Romania, Swiss investigator Dick Marty said this week. Marty’s report for the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental human-rights body, said that the CIA used NATO’s post-9/11 emergency provisions to cooperate directly with Romanian and Polish intelligence agencies, bypassing civilian authorities. Terror suspects were routinely tortured, often shackled naked for days and subjected to extreme cold or extreme heat. “We must banish forever the Bush administration mind-set that effectively says, if it is illegal for us to use such a practice at home or on our own citizens, let us export or outsource it,” Marty said. Poland and Romania have denied hosting prisons, while CIA and NATO officials called the report “biased and distorted.”
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