Secret Jail at Bagram

By: Rob Adams
05/15/2010 08:05 AM ET

Secret jail at Bagram has been confirmed. The secret jail at Bagram is a government airbase and was used to keep high-value detainees. The military prison was revealed last week by the Red Cross.

The reports first surfaced last November when former prisoners described it to human rights researchers. The detainees claim they were held at the facility for weeks at a time without human contact. However, the American vice admiral in command of the facility denies the claims and the existence of a mysterious facility.

The International Red Cross has confirmed the secret Jail at Bagram airbase claims. Marc Ambinder has been able to speak with reputable sources that tell him it is run by the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC). It is responsible for performing the interrogations on behalf of a subunit of the”elite counter-terrorism brigade” known as Task Force 714.

When Ambinder contacted the DIA, they were unwilling to comment on the story. However, the White House referred him to the Pentagon. That’s when he spoke to Pentagon spokesperson Bryan Whitman, who did confirm the existence of “temporary screening detention facilities,” but he refused to provide any details on them, although insisting that the Red Cross had knowledge of their existence. Whitman also denied that “the agency’s inspector general had launched an internal investigation into reports in the Washington Post that several teenagers were beaten by the interrogators.”

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