Thursday, December 11, 2014

hard-hitting investigative American journalism

"The Senate report also highlighted an incident in which the C.I.A. pressured an American newspaper to withhold naming the country that Abu Zubaydah was being held in. The agency was concerned that the report would damage the United States’ ability to recruit other countries to host secret prisons.

A Times reporter, James Risen, said Tuesday that the newspaper was The Times, and the country was Thailand. The paper disclosed the details later, in December 2003, but by that time Abu Zubaydah had been moved."