The Worst Is Yet To Come

Moving on to other business before the country today, ABC News is reporting that the full, unredacted version of the CIA IG's report reveals that at least three detainees were killed by interrogators.

The blacked-out portions hide the Inspector General's findings on the circumstances that led to the deaths of at least three of the detainees in the CIA's program, the official said. Two of the men reportedly died in CIA in Iraq and the third died in Afghanistan.

The Inspector General's findings about a fourth death involving a prisoner in Afghanistan were made public in the report. A CIA contract employee was convicted of assault in that case and is now in prison.

Nice. So at least three more detainees died in CIA custody thanks in part to these "interrogation techniques" in an effort to get intel. Dead men don't talk very much, unfortunately. How does torturing detainees to death save American lives, exactly?

Oh, but it gets worse.

Also hidden from public scrutiny, according to the official, was the discovery by the CIA Inspector General that the CIA could not adequately account for several of the 100 al Qaeda suspects who were part of the detainee program that the CIA maintained had been well administered.

The official said "a few just got lost and the CIA does to know what happened to them."

Other detainees, said the official, were transferred to other countries and their whereabouts are still unknown. In other cases, "incomplete records" were to blame for the failure to account for the detainees' status after leaving the program.

Rendition to nowhere indeed. But of course we can't house these suspects, try them and detain them in maximum security prisons in the United States because they might get loose.

So glad that the Bush program to send them to other countries (that Obama is continuing, by the way) hasn't resulted in escaped terror suspects or anything.

Good lord. No wonder the Republicans wanted this kept secret.