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Where Have They Gone?

The Village Voice reports:

May is the month that the United States has been summoned to Geneva by the United Nations Committee Against Torture to, as Reuters reported on April 18, "provide information about secret detention facilities and specifically whether the United States assumed responsibility for alleged acts of torture in them."

And further:

The committee also wants a list of all these secret prisons. So do I—along with every major human rights organization and some members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. However, Kansas Republican Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, rigidly keeps refusing to authorize an investigation into these "black sites," as they are called in CIA internal communications. (The United States is a faithless signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and is now being called to account.)

On the very day that Lord Goldsmith, Attorney-General for the UK, has called for an end of the Guantanamo Bay facility - and good ol' John Howard said he disagrees with Goldsmith's view and expressed his confidence in the military panels established by the US - the time has come for the US to 'fess up about these "black sites". Where are they? What is going to happen to the people detained there? Why are people still being kept there? Read The Village Voice article and the questions it raises here.

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