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The Controversial Use of Ghost Prisons and Extraordinary Rendition After 9/11
TLDR After the 9/11 attacks, the US government implemented the Extraordinary Rendition program, which involved kidnapping terrorists and bringing them to secret prisons known as ghost prisons. These black sites, located in various countries, were used for enhanced interrogations and led to numerous human rights abuses.
Timestamped Summary
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The podcast episode titled "How Ghost Prisons Work" discusses the finger pointing and blame that occurred after the 9/11 attacks, specifically focusing on how the Clinton administration had passed along a list of high-valued targets in the Al-Qaeda network before the attacks happened.
04:13
The Extraordinary Rendition program, which involved kidnapping terrorists and bringing them to American courts for trial, was stepped up after 2001 and expanded to include third-party nations.
08:00
The use of extraordinary rendition increased significantly after 2001, with at least 307 cases between late 2001 and 2005, leading to the establishment of a network of secret prisons known as ghost prisons.
12:14
One of the first and largest secret prisons was Salt Pit, where a detainee froze to death, and there are likely more unaccounted for prisoners who are dead; other notable secret prisons include Camp Dark Prison and Camp Bond Steel.
16:05
Black sites, also known as ghost prisons, are secret prisons set up by the government with no description and a large budget, and some of the host countries for these sites include Azerbaijan, Oman, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Egypt, Algeria, Lithuania, and Romania.
19:53
The host discovers that there are 36 planes chartered by the CIA making odd stops with people of different nationalities on board, and all the companies involved are dummy corporations with PO boxes listed.
23:52
The CIA outsourced programs to contractors to assassinate Al-Qaeda leaders, but initially needed information so they couldn't kill them and instead used enhanced interrogations, which included physicians present to ensure the detainees' health, but a report revealed that these physicians were actually gathering data to defend the torturers in court.
27:54
The hosts recap their recent trip to New York and express their gratitude to their fans for their support and gifts.
31:51
The hosts recap their recent all-star trivia night in Brooklyn, where they had a team of notable guests including Jackson Public, Wyatt C. Neck, Joe Randazo, Ira Glass, and John Hodgman, and express their gratitude to their fans for their support.
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