The Return Of Secret U.S. Run Prisons In Afghanistan

The U.S.-run detention center at Bagram Air Field, shown above last November, is set to be turned over to the Afghanistan government next year. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Commandos Hold Afghan Detainees in Secret Jails -- The Danger Room

Under President Obama, the CIA is barred from holding terrorism detainees in secret prisons. That’s the Joint Special Operations Command’s job now.

The Associated Press’ star intelligence reporter, Kimberly Dozier, has a mammoth piece out describing a constellation of 20 detention centers run by the elite unit in Afghanistan. JSOC can keep an insurgent inside them for up to nine weeks for interrogation without either turning him over to the main U.S. detention facility in Afghanistan or obtaining a waiver from “either the defense secretary or the president himself” to hold him longer, in the hopes of learning Taliban secrets.

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Update #1: AP Exclusive: Terror suspects held weeks in secret -- Yahoo News/AP
Update #2: US Still Holding Terror Suspects in Secret Jails -- Newser

My Comment: Kudos to Kimberley Dozier for breaking this story .... and to the AP for publishing it. After criticizing the Bush administration for having these secret prisons .... I am not surprise to know that the Obama administration has no comment on this report.

What is my take .... these prisons actually provide an excellent platform to gain intelligence and information on the enemy. I have no qualms on why we have such prisons .... and if anything .... I am just curious to know if there are any other U.S. run prisons in other countries (but I have a gut feeling that if this is the case, it is classified ultra top secret).