They debated the "black sites" for TWO GODDAM YEARS...?

some things you just can't spin...

The arrival of the prisoners [14 detainees, transferred from secret prisons to Guantánamo], witnessed by few beyond the CIA officers accompanying them, marked the end of a five-year effort by the Bush administration to conceal as many as 100 al-Qaeda suspects from the world and to shield the agency's interrogation tactics and facilities from public scrutiny. It was also the result of nearly two years of debate within the Bush White House, touched off by a personal plea from British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the release of British citizens in U.S. custody.

The debate divided the president's key advisers and kept open the CIA's "black sites" until President Bush himself, under the advice of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, ordered the facilities emptied for now, and possibly for good.

one, i don't believe those secret prisons are now "empty..." two, i cannot fathom why the debate took TWO YEARS... three, i thought there was serious consideration being given to closing guantánamo... four, when does the irc get a chance to talk to these men and determine their physical condition...?

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