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CIA agents 'refused to operate' at secret jails
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of MSNBC/Financial Times
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14927851/
The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention centre at Guantnamo this month in part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facilities. When Mr Bush announced the suspension of the secret prison programme in a speech before the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, some analysts thought he was trying to gain political momentum before the November midterm congressional elections. Former CIA officials said Mr Bush's hand was forced because interrogators had refused to continue their work until the legal situation was clarified because they were concerned they could be prosecuted for using illegal techniques. One intelligence source also said the CIA had refused to keep the secret prisons going.
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