CIA has black sites in 30 countries

Political commentator Anna O’Leary says the Central Intelligence Agency has been using about thirty countries to help with its interrogation program.

“The CIA hired two psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, to design interrogation and detention protocols to be used in what they called black sites, of course, black sites are the concentration camps of today,” O’Leary told Press TV on Sunday.

“Europe has got many of these back black sites, we don’t have them in Ireland, they have been travelling and transiting people through our airports,” she said.

“But countries like Poland, we know from Poland, the manager of the airport there that they were taking people off to a black site in Poland, in other words, a modern day concentration camp,” he explained.

O’Leary went on to say that “about thirty countries in the world have been used as part of this CIA interrogation system that they have set up either transiting people through them, flying weapons through them or having back black sites in the countries.”

“The governments in our countries are colluding with the CIA facilitating them by either allowing them to transit through the airports or by allowing them to have black sites,” she noted.

On December 9, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a summary of its voluminous report on the CIA’s torture program during the George W. Bush administration that continued until April 2006.

According to the Senate report, the CIA misled Congress and the White House about the harsh methods such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation, mock executions and threats that the relatives of the prisoners would be sexually abused.

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