CIA Director Gina Haspel, confirmed by the Senate last year amid accusations of involvement in *******, may have run a so-called ‘black site’ at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Haspel did not mention this role in her confirmation hearing.
Haspel’s apparent involvement in the site was revealed in the partially redacted transcript of a secret hearing held at Guantánamo last November. Haspel’s name was mentioned in court by a ****** suspect’s defense lawyer, who argued that the CIA Director must testify before the court on classification guidelines for reports from the apparent black site.
******* allegedly took place at the site, and the defense lawyer noted that the prosecution was “not trying to cover up the *******… But the one thing that they're not willing to talk about is the names of the people involved in the *******,” thanks to Haspel’s classification guidelines.
Haspel’s guidelines, the lawyer continued, “make it impossible for people at Guantánamo, who may have seen her when she was here as chief of base, to identify her and talk about it.”
‘Chief of base’ is CIA-speak for the officer in charge of one of the agency’s secret foreign outposts, including the clandestine prisons known as ‘black sites.’ The site in question here could refer to one of two such prisons at Guantánamo, code named ‘Maroon’ and ‘Indigo.’ The existence of these sites - separate from the main ‘Camp Delta’ naval base and prison - was revealed by the 2014 Senate ******* report.
Both sites were operated by the CIA between September 2003 and April 2004, and captives there were ‘interrogated’ before being ****** into US military custody at the main prison. While the names of the officers in charge of the main prison are public, the names of the CIA spooks running the ‘Maroon’ and ‘Delta’ sites are not.
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Haspel’s apparent involvement in the site was revealed in the partially redacted transcript of a secret hearing held at Guantánamo last November. Haspel’s name was mentioned in court by a ****** suspect’s defense lawyer, who argued that the CIA Director must testify before the court on classification guidelines for reports from the apparent black site.
******* allegedly took place at the site, and the defense lawyer noted that the prosecution was “not trying to cover up the *******… But the one thing that they're not willing to talk about is the names of the people involved in the *******,” thanks to Haspel’s classification guidelines.
Haspel’s guidelines, the lawyer continued, “make it impossible for people at Guantánamo, who may have seen her when she was here as chief of base, to identify her and talk about it.”
‘Chief of base’ is CIA-speak for the officer in charge of one of the agency’s secret foreign outposts, including the clandestine prisons known as ‘black sites.’ The site in question here could refer to one of two such prisons at Guantánamo, code named ‘Maroon’ and ‘Indigo.’ The existence of these sites - separate from the main ‘Camp Delta’ naval base and prison - was revealed by the 2014 Senate ******* report.
Both sites were operated by the CIA between September 2003 and April 2004, and captives there were ‘interrogated’ before being ****** into US military custody at the main prison. While the names of the officers in charge of the main prison are public, the names of the CIA spooks running the ‘Maroon’ and ‘Delta’ sites are not.
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