Ethics

McChrystal and the "Black Jail"

By Ed Brayton

My colleague Spencer Ackerman has an interesting post at the Washington Independent asking an important question: Will Gen. McChrystal testify about a newly revealed "black jail" at Bagram?

I reported yesterday that Gen. Stanley McChrystal will probably testify next week about Afghanistan war strategy. It'll be interesting to see if he faces questions about the so-called "black jail."

Over the weekend, both The New York Times and The Washington Post reported on an apparently undisclosed adjunct to the prison facility at Bagram Air Field called the "black jail" by Afghans who told human-rights groups they were detained there. According to the papers, the black jail is run by Special Operations Forces, and accounts of it stretch back to early 2008 - back when McChrystal was in charge of the Joint Special Operations Command's (JSOC) operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 02, 2009 (boomark / email).