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Dusty and the Black Sites.

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"Eventually, the agency's network would encompass at least eight detention centers, including one in the Middle East, one each in Iraq and Afghanistan and a maximum-security long-term site at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that was dubbed Strawberry Fields, officials said. (It was named after a Beatles song after C.I.A. officials joked that the detainees would be held there, as the lyric put it, 'forever.')"

Charming. The NYT gets a window into the CIA's top-secret "black sites" program courtesy of former #3 man Dusty Foggo, who -- irony alert -- is currently serving a three-year term in a Kentucky jail on fraud charges associated with Duke Cunningham. (I presume Kentucky's finest have yet to break out the "enhanced interrogation techniques" on this joker. Speaking of which, "[n]othing exotic was required for the infamous waterboards -- they were built on the spot from locally available materials...The cells were constructed with special features to prevent injury to the prisoners during interrogations: nonslip floors and flexible, plywood-covered walls to soften the impact of being slammed into the wall.")

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