The Case Against George W. Bush by Steven C. Markoff

Author:Steven C. Markoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rare Bird Books
Published: 2020-09-21T20:13:08+00:00

Costs relating to torture11/2/2005: At least eight countries hosted CIA “black sites,” medieval-like dungeons, for financial reward that US taxpayers unknowingly funded

According to The Washington Post on November 2, 2005: “at least eight countries have participated [in hosting clandestine prisons known as ‘black sites’]…For the host countries, there were both political and legal liabilities.

State enforced disappearances are not only illegal in the United States, but such practices also violate laws in almost all of the allied countries whose cooperation the United States sought.

There were financial rewards for the host countries, however. One year of the Afghan prison operation alone cost an estimated $100 million, which Congress hid in a classified annex of the first supplemental Afghan appropriations bill in 2002.

Among the services that U.S. taxpayers unwittingly paid for were medieval-like dungeons, including a reviled former brick factory outside of Kabul known as ‘The Salt Pit.’”

—Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 148

[Note: The twentieth finding from the 4/3/2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture read:

“The CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program damaged the United States’ standing in the world, and resulted in other significant monetary and non-monetary costs.

The CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program created tensions with U.S. partners and allies, leading to formal demarches to the United States, and damaging and complicating bilateral intelligence relationships.…More broadly, the program caused immeasurable damage to the United States’ public standing, as well as to the United States’ longstanding global leadership on human rights in general and the prevention of torture in particular.…CIA records indicate that the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program cost well over $300 million in non-personnel costs.…To encourage governments to clandestinely host CIA detention sites, or to increase support for existing sites, the CIA provided millions of dollars in cash payments to foreign government officials.”]

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