CIA Allegedly Ordered Torture Cages At Black Site Prison

[John Dillinger]

A Polish official claims that prosecutors in Krakow have proof the CIA wanted a special “torture cage” to be constructed at one of its secret “black site” prisons.

According to ABC News, the proof consists of a document showing that “a local contractor was asked to build a cage at Stare Kiekuty, a Polish army base used as a CIA prison for al Qaeda terror suspects in 2002 and 2003.”

Senator Jozef Pinior told the Polish paper Gazeta Wyborcza that he had not seen the construction order himself but that the prosecutor’s office has a copy of it. “In a state with rights, people are not kept in cages,” Pinior stated.

He said he was sure the cage was intended for humans, since there could have been no other purpose for it, and that a cage is “non-standard equipment” for a prison unless “torture was used there.”

The CIA has declined to comment on these allegations.

Gazeta Wyborcza also reports that the prosecutor’s office has a signed order from the former head of Polish intelligence, Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, authorizing the creation of the black site. According to the paper’s source, there is no American signature “because they do not want to sign documents inconsistent with their own Constitution and international law.”

Siemiatkowski has refused to either confirm or deny the existence of the agreement but acknowledges that he is under investigation for permitting the corporal punishment of prisoners of war.

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[Kashmir]

I remember how, circa '03, Saddam Hussein was clearly evil because he had torture chambers.