No one objects to your “detaining and interrogating” prisoners Mr. Hayden. What is objected to is the torture and secret prisons and detaining people forEVER without charging them with anything. And according to people who have been released after your extraordinary rendition, THEY ARE BEING TORTURED!!!

The director of the CIA praised the government’s much-criticized program of detaining and interrogating prisoners yesterday, crediting it for most of the information in a July intelligence report on the terrorist threat to America.

General Michael Hayden said the CIA has detained fewer than 100 people at secret facilities abroad since the capture of Abu Zubaydah, the Al Qaeda operative, in 2002, and even fewer prisoners have been secretly transferred to or from foreign governments.

In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Hayden defended the government’s policy of extraordinary rendition, criticized the media for publishing stories about the government’s intelligence activities, and warned that Al Qaeda is trying to plant operatives in the United States.

Extraordinary rendition refers to the interrogation policy involving the secret transfer of prisoners from US control into the hands of foreign governments, some of which have a history of torture.

The US government says it does so only after it is assured that transferred prisoners will not be subjected to torture.

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