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Originally Posted by Hatuey  I have to agree. The U.S. government can't keep any secrets. The story seems plausible but HIGHLY unlikely in the age where all you don't even need to meet somebody to send them classified information. All you need is a Blackberry or an iPhone and you're more or less connected to every major news source available. This would have gotten out ages ago if it were actually happening. |
Well, it showed up in the Guardian. That's a pretty credible source.
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Originally Posted by GySgt However, this is conspiracy crap and it had nothi9ng to do with a new member. Like others, this new member just signed on to post a single article. |
Somehow I think that if I had posted this article, it would've been left alone...but maybe I'm wrong.
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Originally Posted by GySgt Even with civilian contracted ships, this would entail military guards and such a thing would not be an easily kept secret. Secret prisons in Europe and now secret floating prisons? With the prison at GITMO being an in your face issue from day one we need secret prisons? |
The Guardian indicates that it's not even much of a secret:
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The analysis, due to be published this year by the human rights organisation Reprieve, also claims there have been more than 200 new cases of rendition since 2006, when President George Bush declared that the practice had stopped.
It is the use of ships to detain prisoners, however, that is raising fresh concern and demands for inquiries in Britain and the US.
According to research carried out by Reprieve, the US may have used as many as 17 ships as "floating prisons" since 2001. Detainees are interrogated aboard the vessels and then rendered to other, often undisclosed, locations, it is claimed.
Ships that are understood to have held prisoners include the USS Bataan and USS Peleliu. A further 15 ships are suspected of having operated around the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which has been used as a military base by the UK and the Americans.
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Like I said, I don't know if it's true...but it hardly seems unthinkable. Especially when they list specific ships. Maybe it's true, maybe not...but it doesn't exactly belong alongside 9/11 conspiracies and UFOlogy.