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Author Sheds Light On CIA's 'Black Sites'

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March 15, 2009

The International Red Cross interviewed 14 prisoners who were detained by the CIA at "black sites," secret locations outside of the United States.

These interviews were compiled into a document intended to be seen only by high-level administration insiders. But that document was obtained by Mark Danner, author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror. It's the subject of pieces by Danner in Sunday's New York Times and in the New York Review of Books. Danner talks to host Jacki Lyden about what he found.

 
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