Shedding some light on wherabouts of black site prisons

In today´s Financial Times the WaPo story that broke yesterday continues. According to Human Rights Watch , two of the Eastern European countries likely to have provided facilities are Poland and Romania. Flight records from prisoners flown out of Afghanistan suggests that. The spokesperson from Poland´s ministry of Defence denied the existence of any facilities on polish soil, and a spokeswoman for the Romanian president declined to answer. Russia,Bulgaria and Thailand issued statements denying that any kind of facilities for that purpose exists.

The European Commission stated on thursday that they will look into the matter. The Un special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Novak is also preparing an investigation on the same subject.

In an editorial in today´s NYT, the prison Puzzle, the argument goes a bit furter, it´s the new congress legislation that was passed by 90 to 9, but an attempt to block by the White house, because of ¨vague¨ language in the Geneva convention, vague in the negative sense, to much protection, in other words , to clear for Dick Cheney and ¨Scooter¨ Libby´s replacement, MR ¨Torture¨, David Addington, one of the men behind ¨the torture memo¨ in 2002. Pentagon also preferes a change back to using the pre 9/11 legislation, including applying the Geneva convention in full. The US is loosing to much of it´s moral high ground in continuing on this path. State department seems to prefer the same, so left is only the vice president and his office, and it seems that the President is willing to stake his military budget on this question. WELL ONLY THREE YEARS LEFT OF THIS MADDNESS, and i could see John McCain becoming the Republican candidate in 2008, for the sane republicans.