Afghans Detail Detention in ‘Black Jail’ at U.S. Base -- New York TimesKABUL, Afghanistan — An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base.
The site, known to detainees as the black jail, consists of individual windowless concrete cells, each illuminated by a single light bulb glowing 24 hours a day. In interviews, former detainees said that their only human contact was at twice-daily interrogation sessions.
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My Comment: Goodbye to the old boss. Hello to the new boss. And nothing changes.
When President Bush was in power, critics were harsh and public in their condemnation of such actions. But today .... with a few exceptions .... nothing but silence. It makes you wonder on where they are now?
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