02/08/11 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show

by | Feb 8, 2011 | Interviews

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses his week long tour of Poland, home of a ‘black site’ secret CIA prison, during which he tried to convince the Polish government to accept Guantanamo prisoners who can’t be released to their home countries (for fear of torture); the prison’s ignominious history as ‘a Soviet-era compound once used by German intelligence in World War II;’ the difficulty in getting information from foreign governments complicit in the CIA’s rendition and torture program; how former US officials traveling abroad risk criminal indictments; and the secret CIA prison in Romania that remains”¦secret.

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