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Aside from the controversy about the 385 or so detainees that the government admits to holding at Guantanamo Bay, there's a whole other issue about the secret "black site" prisons, which hold almost forty secret detainees, according to a report released by several human rights groups today.Three of the groups---Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Human Rights Clinic at NYU---are also planning to file suit in search of information about the detainees, whom one of the groups likened to "disappeared" dissidents in Latin American dictatorships.Irrespective of that comparison, I would hope we can all agree that unacknowledged detentions are fundamentally unfair and un-American, even in a time of armed conflict.Now, this is not about providing succor to "high-value" terrorists, which is undoubtedly what the administration's backers are going to claim. No, it's about the fact that secret detentions are subject to absolutely no checks against abuse. At least we know to seek habeas review of the prisoners down at Gitmo. But if we don't know to ask, then the government can do what it wants with impunity---and that's a dangerous row to hoe.Here's the Post . And, this is a good bit from :

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