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President Bush warned after 9/11 that the War on Terror would be fought in the shadows.(Brief article)

National Review

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President Bush warned after 9/11 that the War on Terror would be fought in the shadows. Now, four years later, his critics are shocked and outraged--are they ever anything else?--to learn that the CIA has been operating "black sites," secret prisons overseas for top-level al-Qaeda captives. Dana Priest's article in the Washington Post revealing their existence seems to say--although it's difficult to parse since it's based on sketchy information that about 30 people are being held at these prisons. Some of them were originally targeted for assassination immediately after 9/11, but the CIA figured it probably wasn't capable of killing them without absurd missteps and that they would be more valuable alive and providing intelligence. They couldn't be brought back to the U.S. without the risk that they would quickly accrue the ...

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