Four CIA detainees dead, others "just got lost"

By Steve Hynd

ABC News just posted an account of Brian Ross' report for World News tonight, in which Ross writes that an offcial source has leaked some of what is contained in the most heavily redacted sections of the IG Report Jay posted on earlier.

The blacked-out portions hide the Inspector General's findings on the circumstances that led to the deaths of at least three of the detainees in the CIA's program, the official said. Two of the men reportedly died in CIA in Iraq and the third died in Afghanistan.

The Inspector General's findings about a fourth death involving a prisoner in Afghanistan were made public in the report. A CIA contract employee was convicted of assault in that case and is now in prison.

...Also hidden from public scrutiny, according to the official, was the discovery by the CIA Inspector General that the CIA could not adequately account for several of the 100 al Qaeda suspects who were part of the detainee program that the CIA maintained had been well administered.

The official said "a few just got lost and the CIA does to know what happened to them."

Sounds like, even though its unforgiveable that the prosecutor's remit doesn't go nearly far enough, there's going to be plenty to keep him busy in any case.

There's plenty more on the IG report and the appointment of a prosecutor at Memeorandum. It's the devisive issue de jour, with even saner conservatives apparently unable to get the notion that criminal acts at all levels need prosecutions at all levels and that the universal rule of law is the cornerstone of liberty. I'm not sure it's even possible to talk across the ideological divide on this one.

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[smintheus]

Good for ABC. Of course, the number of people tortured to death in US custody under Bush may be around 100 according to this investigator:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-05/how-many-were-tortured-to-death/