The Poland site wasn't the only site in the world. I am quite sure there were others. Poland was also compromised in that they are a former Soviet State ans was seeking security for their people from NATO. If Poland was attempting to increase assurance into or with NATO it would have done whatever the USA wanted.
Poland, however, is not simply a babe in the woods. They actively took on two provinces in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia were acting as peacekeepers along the border when the conflict began. It was Poland who first launched the attack.
The Five Day War (click here) A thousand people died in the two provinces. They had no means of military defense. It was a one sided confrontation from the beginning.
December 10, 2014
By Carol J. Williams
A U.S. Senate (click here) report on interrogation abuses by CIA operatives around the world spurred two former leaders in Poland to confirm, after years of denials, that the country hosted one of the “black site” detention facilities where the alleged torture occurred.
Former President Aleksander Kwasniewski said in a radio interview Wednesday that he approved the clandestine operation in 2002 after the U.S. administration of President George W. Bush urged Poland to assist in the global war against terrorism launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington.
But Kwasniewski and former Prime Minister Leszek Miller denied knowledge of the abuses reportedly committed during the interrogation of terror suspects, including Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qaeda kingpin Abu Zubaydah and the prisoner accused of bombing the U.S. destroyer Cole in 2000, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri.
The U.S. side asked the Polish side to find a quiet site where it could conduct activity that would allow to effectively obtain information from persons who had declared readiness to cooperate with the U.S. side,” Kwasniewski said at a Warsaw press conference, according to the Associated Press.
The CIA site opened in December 2002 and closed 10 months later, Kwasniewski said, after he pressured Bush to wind up the operation over which Polish officials felt they had too little control. Kwasniewski was president of Poland from 1995 to 2005....
Poland, however, is not simply a babe in the woods. They actively took on two provinces in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia were acting as peacekeepers along the border when the conflict began. It was Poland who first launched the attack.
The Five Day War (click here) A thousand people died in the two provinces. They had no means of military defense. It was a one sided confrontation from the beginning.
December 10, 2014
By Carol J. Williams
A U.S. Senate (click here) report on interrogation abuses by CIA operatives around the world spurred two former leaders in Poland to confirm, after years of denials, that the country hosted one of the “black site” detention facilities where the alleged torture occurred.
Former President Aleksander Kwasniewski said in a radio interview Wednesday that he approved the clandestine operation in 2002 after the U.S. administration of President George W. Bush urged Poland to assist in the global war against terrorism launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington.
But Kwasniewski and former Prime Minister Leszek Miller denied knowledge of the abuses reportedly committed during the interrogation of terror suspects, including Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qaeda kingpin Abu Zubaydah and the prisoner accused of bombing the U.S. destroyer Cole in 2000, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri.
The U.S. side asked the Polish side to find a quiet site where it could conduct activity that would allow to effectively obtain information from persons who had declared readiness to cooperate with the U.S. side,” Kwasniewski said at a Warsaw press conference, according to the Associated Press.
The CIA site opened in December 2002 and closed 10 months later, Kwasniewski said, after he pressured Bush to wind up the operation over which Polish officials felt they had too little control. Kwasniewski was president of Poland from 1995 to 2005....
