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The CIA Secret Prison in Poland
By: Daniel Nardini
The Polish government of the time did not realize that the CIA was using torture as a means of extracting information from Al Qaeda suspects. Poland’s constitution and its signatory as a charter member of the United Nations against the use of torture should have caused many Polish officials to question what the CIA was doing at the prison facility it was using. One of the reasons why the CIA used Poland as a secret place for interrogation and torture was because it was off of U.S. soil, and therefore out of the way of the American public. Even so, the Polish authorities of the time should have stopped the whole thing immediately and even arrested those CIA personnel involved in these torture acts. It is now even possible that those Polish authorities who allowed these acts to happen on Polish soil can now be indicted on crimes against humanity. Whether this will happen or not remains to be seen.
This move by the Polish government reveals two important things. First, Poland’s democracy has matured enough that it is capable of facing the past. It was hard enough for Poland to face so many things from the brutal acts of the former Soviet Union to the acts of its most recent ally the United States. The Polish government and Polish people are now questioning, justifiably, the things done in the name of “fighting terrorism.” Americans are also questioning some of the things done in the era of former U.S. President George W. Bush, and many Americans would like answers as well of what the CIA was doing in Poland. The second thing it shows is that Poland will not just allow anyone to use its territory again in the manner used by the CIA. The Polish people have learned that even a friend and ally can have dark purposes for what they do. The question now is what exactly happened and how much truth about what the CIA did in Poland will be revealed.