Real gulags in use

US uses Soviet-era Eastern Bloc prison ``compound'' in its Terror War

US Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican of California and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Fox News Sunday, June 12, 2005:

So we have the legend that there is so-called gulag-like treatment and the reality is honey glazed chicken on Sunday, and we give them honey and dates to break the fast on Ramadan.

Wednesday November 2 Dana Priest story in the Washington Post:

The CIA has been interrogating al-Qaida prisoners at a Soviet era compound in eastern Europe as part of a covert jail system set up after the September 11 attacks, according to the Washington Post. The secret facility is part of a network of "black sites" spanning eight countries, the existence and locations of which are known only to a handful of US officials and usually only the president and a few top intelligence officers in the host countries.

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In late 2002 or early 2003, the CIA brokered deals with other countries to establish black-site prisons. One of these sites -- which sources said they believed to be the CIA's biggest facility now -- became particularly important when the agency realized it would have a growing number of prisoners and a shrinking number of prisons.

Thailand was closed, and sometime in 2004 the CIA decided it had to give up its small site at Guantanamo Bay. The CIA had planned to convert that into a state-of-the-art facility, operated independently of the military. The CIA pulled out when U.S. courts began to exercise greater control over the military detainees, and agency officials feared judges would soon extend the same type of supervision over their detainees.

Looks like Amnesty International was dead on when it invoked the term ``gulag'' to describe the holes US global police have established to disappear their detainees. Evidence piles high about who are the real ``dissemblers'' in Bush time.