Now we finally learned what we all suspected: the numerous reports and
testimonies about the Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons were a trap to
distract the attention of the public from the true secret: in the last
days, big media reported that the CIA operates secret detention
facilities beyond the reach of the law and outside official oversight
at bases in two eastern European countries and some other Asian
countries. The CIA has not even acknowledged the existence of these
"black sites" with "ghost prisoners": to do so could open the U.S.
government to legal challenges, since the prisoners are there submitted
to "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" (the US newspeak for torture).
The original idea was to hide and interrogate the two dozen or so al
Qaeda leaders believed to be responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, or
who posed an imminent threat; but as the CIA began apprehending more
people whose intelligence value and links to terrorism were less
certain, the original standard for consigning suspects to the invisible
universe was lowered or ignored.
(Zizek in ArtForum: Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo)
http://www.lacan.com/zizartforum1205.htm
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