The CIA has secret prisons in other countries. Uh oh!

The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.

The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents.

The hidden global internment network is a central element in the CIA's unconventional war on terrorism. It depends on the cooperation of foreign intelligence services, and on keeping even basic information about the system secret from the public, foreign officials and nearly all members of Congress charged with overseeing the CIA's covert actions.

In this post "Guatanamo bay atmosphere" the words "secret" and "prison" should never show up in a sentence together. We have lost the trust of the majority of the world and the only way to start to earn some of that back would be to make our programs more transparent and above board.

Yeah I know that the CIA is a spy network and they don't do things transparently. I agree, which is why they should not be holding prisoners! These are not the individuals who should be be interrogating potentially innocent foreign suspects in countries where they do not have access to the same civil rights we afford prisoners in our country. That sends a bad message as to how the United Staes conducts itself in the face of adversity.