They just don't get it, do they? Dems decry "Secret Prisons"

This from here

CIA running secret prison system: report
Last Updated Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:57:18 EST
CBC News

The CIA is running a secret prison system in Eastern Europe to interrogate key al-Qaeda captives, according to a published report.

The Washington Post reported that the Soviet-era compound is part of a covert prison system that has been run for nearly four years by the U.S. spy agency as part of Washington's war on terrorism.

The paper said there are sites in at least eight countries, including Thailand and Afghanistan as well as several democracies in Eastern Europe.

But the Post said it is not publishing the names of the Eastern European countries involved in the covert program, at the request of senior U.S. officials.

They argued that the disclosure might disrupt counterterrorism efforts in those countries and elsewhere and could make them targets of possible terrorist retaliation.

The existence and locations of the facilities are known to only a handful of top officials in the U.S.

No information is known about the facilities, including who is kept there, how decisions are made about the detainees and how long they are detained.

The secret detention system was conceived in the first months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The Post said CIA officials have been increasingly debating the system, questioning the legality, morality and practicality of holding suspects in isolation and secrecy. (cue the music stinger here)

What are they doing? Do they not realize the harsh realities of war, and that in order to prevent your own guys from dying you need to have intelligence. What part of the word "secret" do they not understand? Today, the meaning of Loose lips sink ships is totally lost on the MSM. Heck, even WaPo has this:

The Pentagon has declined to identify the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, most of whom were captured in Afghanistan during and after the 2001 war there. The Post has compiled a list of names made public thus far, encompassing 434 men whose identities have appeared in media reports, on Arabic Web sites...

Names of Guantanamo Bay Detainees

Well, wasn't that special for WaPo to supply the terrorists with info that those mean old warmongers at the Pentagon wouldn't, like information regarding secret detainee camps?? And wasn't it truly magnanimous of WaPo to provide the terrorists in the field with the public service to let them know which of their fellow jihadists are being held at Gitmo (do you think they may be so magnanimous as to publish the names of all the terrorists' victims, as well?). It truly does appear that the MSM has no trouble at all sinking ships, and causing more American deaths in the proces. Especially when that "ship" is the S.S. George W. Bush.