‘New’ evidence of secret CIA detention site in Poland reported by Raw Story 2 years ago…

‘New’ evidence of secret CIA detention site in Poland reported by Raw Story 2 years ago…:

"‘New’ evidence of secret CIA detention site in Poland reported by Raw Story 2 years ago…

Diane Sweet
Raw Story
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Der Spiegel reports this morning of ‘new’ evidence of a torture prison housed at the Polish military airbase of Stare Kiejkuty, north of Szymany. It’s certainly an important revelation, and it was just as important in March 2007 when Raw Story originally identified Stare Kiejkuty as being part of the CIA’s secret rendition and detention program.

From the March 2007 report:
In April 2002, according to British foreign intelligence sources (MI6), senior officials in the Bush and Blair administrations decided that the Bagram base near Kabul in Afghanistan could not operate successfully in the Bush administration’s “no holds barred” policy towards suspected terrorists.

MI6 officials say the two administrations then decided to fly high-value suspected terrorists to secret gulags in Eastern Europe. The CIA-operated flights would pass through the air space of a number of countries – among them Britain, Germany, Spain and Poland.
European Union officials and human rights groups would later say these interrogations may have violated the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Convention against Torture, to which the United States and Poland are both signatories.

After a series of secret meetings chaired by MI6 chief Sir John Scarlett in London and then-CIA Director George Tenet in Washington, Polish intelligence was invited to join the project, British and Polish intelligence sources say."