not in my name

Concerns escalated last month, when Vice President Cheney and CIA Director Porter J. Goss asked Congress to exempt CIA employees from legislation already endorsed by 90 senators that would bar cruel and degrading treatment of any prisoner in U.S. custody. It is illegal for the government to hold prisoners in such isolation in secret prisons in the United States, which is why the CIA placed them overseas.

It is estimated that more than 100 suspected terrorists have been sent by the CIA into the covert system, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials and foreign sources and does not does not include prisoners picked up in Iraq. Kept in dark, sometimes underground cells, they have no recognized legal rights, and no one outside the CIA is allowed to talk with them. They are not even allowed to see daylight.

In November 2002 at the "black site" code named the Salt Pit in Afghanistan, a CIA case officer ordered guards to strip naked a young detainee, chain him to the concrete floor and leave him there overnight without blankets. He froze to death, according to four U.S. government officials. The CIA officer has not been charged. Of course not, this is what your country, the USA, has become under these republicans.