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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 09:33 PM
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Larisa Alexandrovna: NYT Confirms Poland torture, but does not name facility... why?
http://www.atlargely.com/2008/06/nyt-confirms-po.html

NYT Confirms Poland torture, but does not name facility... why?

Remember that Polish facility used for rendition and torture by the US I identified/broke in March of 2007? Just a reminder:

"POLAND -- The CIA operated an interrogation and short-term detention facility for suspected terrorists within a Polish intelligence training school with the explicit approval of British and US authorities, according to British and Polish intelligence officials familiar with the arrangements.

Intelligence officials identify the site as a component of a Polish intelligence training school outside the northern Polish village of Stare Kiejkuty. While previously suspected, the facility has never been conclusively identified as being part of the CIA's secret rendition and detention program.

Only the Polish prime minister and top Polish intelligence brass were told of the plan, in which agents of the United States quietly shuttled detainees from other holding facilities around the globe for stopovers and short-term interrogation in Poland between late 2002 and 2004.

According to a confidential British intelligence memo shown to RAW STORY, Prime Minister Tony Blair told Poland's then-Prime Minister Leszek Miller to keep the information secret, even from his own government.

“Miller was asked to keep it as tight as possible,” the memo said."

In response, Miller and his intelligence chief made 24/7 TV appearances slandering me.

Well, today, the NYT reports (but as usual does not credit) that KSM was tortured in Poland, but they don't have the integrity to identify the facility by name:

"WASHINGTON — In a makeshift prison in the north of Poland, Al Qaeda’s engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator. It was 18 months after the 9/11 attacks, and the invasion of Iraq was giving Muslim extremists new motives for havoc. If anyone knew about the next plot, it was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed"

The facility, this "makeshift prison in the north of Poland" is Stare Kiejkuty. The small airport right near it was used to bring in the detainees. For shame - to get this far into this administration and know just how much power has been abused with regard to classified information - and stop short of identifying the facility that was used for illegal operations by the US is truly negligent journalism. I am certain that the push-back we got and the reasons given by this administration were the same as NYT got with regard to running this information, and yet we ran the location and name of the facility. Why did NYT cop out?
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 09:37 PM
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1. When I grow up...
I want to be as courageous as Lala. Really.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 09:41 PM
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2. Forget US law, what happened to Polish law? nt
Edited on Sun Jun-22-08 09:41 PM by hedgehog
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 09:42 PM
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3. When has the NYTS not copped out? n/t
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:15 PM
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4. It's not negligence. It's treason.
A now-defunct magazine, "Lies Of Our Times," did an excellent job of chronicling the historical ommissions and poignant commissions of the Times and its editors, reporters and writers. The publication got mocked by TIME and the rest of what Allen Dulles called, "The Mighty Wurlitzer."

The New York Times is merely Corporate McPravda's shiniest airhorn for misdirection, misinformation and disinformation. It's their job. They've been working to keep the torture of terrorists or POWs or criminals secret since the beginning of Operation OIL. Of course they aren't going to name the city or credit the researcher who broke this or most any other real story regarding the crazy idiot, Teflon George from Selection 2000 to Department of Just-Us.

Consider their coverage of books published just prior to the 40th anniversary of JFK's assassination, 90-percent of the column inches were dedicated to Gerald Posner's "Case Closed" pro-WC bull. From their role in covering up the deep truth that is America's history, NYT does not deserve the First Amendment.

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