CIA Secret Prisons

CIA Secret Prisons

A panel discusses some of the moral and legal questions being raised about a covert prison system set up by the CIA after 9/11.

A panel discusses some of the moral and legal questions being raised about a covert prison system set up by the CIA after 9/11.

Guests

David Cole

professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and author of "The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable". Previous books include "Less Safe, Less Free," and "Terrorism and the Constitution."

David Rivkin

attorney in private practice and former Justice Department official during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. Worked in the Office of the Vice President for Dan Quayle.

Dana Priest

investigative reporter for "The Washington Post" and author of "The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military"

Senator Carl Levin

Michigan, Dem

Michael Scheuer

former CIA analyst who headed the agency's Osama Bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999; author of the new book "Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq"

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