It has been more or less an established fact that the CIA operated a “black site” for detention and torture in Poland for several years, but as more and more data continues to emerge, the details are shocking local rights activists and have the current government scrambling to save face and distance themselves from the past administration’s crimes.
Polish prosecutors say that the investigation has turned up a number of new documents, including a signed agreement for the establishment of the torture site, signed by former Polish spymaster Zbigniew Siemiatowski. Ironically, the document did not include any signatures from the US side, “because they do not want to sign documents inconsistent with their own Constitution and international law.”
It has also emerged that the CIA hired a local contractor to “build a cage” for the black site. Sen. Jozef Pinior, who confirmed the existence of a work order for the cage, said it would have been “non-standard equipment” for a prison, but not for one in which torture was being carried out.
The Polish regime involved in the torture site has blasted the revelation of its existence, with former Prime Minister Leszek Miller claiming that the media was “inviting terrorists to Poland” by making their past public.
“because they do not want to sign documents inconsistent with their own Constitution and international law.”
Is there a term for cowardice mixed with arrogance and sadism??? Hollywood couldn't devise a psychological complex more screwed up than this.
And for Poland – stop being used by evildoers!!! Leave NATO, for it enslaves you just as much as did the Warsaw Pact.
The poles killed thousands of Jews at Tribeca with their bare hands, now they are killing and torturing incontinent terrorists.
Something should be done to stop the Poles!
Poles, remember the evils of the Soviets? The evils of America are lesser evils because they're done for good reasons.
I can hardly believe it. Lithuania and Poland leaders willfully allowing torture sites from the current evil empire on their lands. Truly incredible.
Why do they accept US missiles on their soil ? Of course, they get a lot of $ but the missile sites will be the first targets in Launch On Warning. Disarming First-Strike Capability 2018/Launch On Warning 2017. End of Story. I´ll recommend the coffee-village Risaralda in Caldas in Colombia.
"…“inviting terrorists to Poland” by making their past public…"
Doncha just hate it when those evil media mavens start publishing stuff you did when no one was paying attention – and supposedly secret!! That's what you get for consorting with known war criminals and liars. I suspect that calling forth the canard of "inviting the terrorists" is not going to fly with the locals – unlike the gullible here in the USofA.
Hey Popsiq…IMO the evils of America are more evil as they are done under a veneer of hubris and lies…the Soviets never bothered to call what they did anything else but it was.
What they once did for their Soviet masters — very competently and with dedication — they do now for the new masters. But that is survival. As opposed to perennially unbendable Serbs, that fought for 500 years against Turks, instead of just giving them a free passage to Europe, where they wanted to go in the first place. Then when all their kinsmen in Balkans recognized the allmighty Austro-Hungarian dominance, they had none of it — and paid in WWI by losing over 1/3 of its population. Then came WWII. All sensible European states signed up to Hitler's wishes, while the dumb Serbs decided to fight! Well, paid that one dearly. Communists came, and Serbs were too busy fighting Nazis, that they did not have enough vision to set up their own communist party! Well, one was set up for them! And paid dearly under communists. The end of communism came, and all the neighbors dutifully signed up for the new empire. Except, you know who. Got clobbered again. Bombed. Piece of their land carved off for an "independent" NATOSTAN, where tortures can proceed unimpeded. And still, those people just did not learn how to be more like Poles!
That the head of the CIA didnt know about this is inconceivable that the President didnt either is unlikely.
Popsiq there are never good reasons for torture, the Poles remember the Nazis, the Russians, their own, and now have to deal with the Americans.
Poland will not invite terror PROVIDING they prosecute Siemiatowski and the other signatories!
"I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling is going on here."
Polish devotion to America has existed since the founding of the US, and as an expression of romantic idealization rather than any true understanding of the nature of the US. The US has always been seen in Polish eyes as "the great power that is nothing like the Germans and Russians". This story attacks the very core of that social mythology. It will be interesting to see how ordinary Poles process tht cognitive dissonance. The history of human beings has been to choose the social myth, the romantic devotion, over the hard fact of ugly reality.
That’s not saving face; it’s chicken shit. If they want to distance themselves from the perpetrators of the crimes they should put all of them on trial and let them pay for their crimes. If I were one of the ones tortured, I would go back with guns blazing.
I just hope we didn't get screwed by the Polish guy who built the cage for us.
Those cages cost Americans taxpayers money. It's bad enough that we have to have
foreigners building our torture cages when we could have them built by American workers, American tough, American strong.
A cage like that should cost no more than $195 bucks. But I'll bet they charged thousands just because it's a torture cage and they knew that the CIA was paying for it and the CIA never worries about costs, even though they have done a heckuva job throughout the years making America safe for Americans with papers, proving they are Americans. Americans like me.
I born here.