(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) For years, the CIA has categorically denied the existence of secret prisons—or black sites—on U.S. soil. However, a now-deleted list of government-owned properties suggests that the agency may have indeed owned a facility used for secretive operations.
The list included government properties that the General Services Administration, at the direction of the Trump administration’s DOGE, planned to sell. Among the properties on the list was a highly sensitive complex in Northern Virginia long tied to CIA operations.
The GSA published the list on Thursday but quickly took it down the next day, according to Wired and Bloomberg.
“Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property,” said Jeff McKay, chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. “Normally a site like this wouldn’t be outed, so to speak, but everyone knows it’s here except, apparently, the people who put this list together.”
isn’t the CIA prohibited from operating US soil? why would there be a black site in country?
Never stopped them before.
OPPS
I mean OOPs darn spell checker
People aren’t supposed to be held in jail without charges, but ask any J6’r about that.
Click bait, heavy-handed over-hype. The article’s headline and lede talk about “secret prisons – black sites” but the details fail to suggest anything remotely like that.
Knowledge of the CIA’s ownership of the building goes back more than ten years, local business journal in 2012, then an exposé book in 2014. The book mentions training only: lock-picking, hacking, burglary, bugging/wiretapping: typical spy novel stuff.
Now I ask you. Given the property’s “long and well-documented history” and being called “perhaps the worst-kept secret in Springfield” how probable is it that the CIA has been using the building as a secret prison? I’d put it at around 0.
There’s little doubt that the CIA and the other spook agencies do all kinds of awful and illegal shit that I’d condemn if I knew the details, but this sure does NOT seem to be the locus of any of them. I could be wrong but I don’t think so.
Oops…
Uncle Al — After re-listening to Blago’s interview w/Tucker Carlson (from sometime before the election), I feel like someone who binge-watches “Dateline”.
Blago’s description of who and how the top U.S. law enforcement went after him and Trump leads me to firmly believe they are extremely comfortable doing whatever they want, whenever they want. For the reasons you think it’s impossible for the CIA to conduct illegal activities in Springfield, I believe the same reasons make it entirely possible. A simple and successful subterfuge is to hide something in plain sight — an extremely high success rate.
One other takeaway from that interview:
1. Dry up ALL funding to corporate media and Public Broadcast. They are totally contaminated and cannot be reformed. Destroy them. Start by revealing Woodward and Bernstein’s dishonesty. If there’s time go after Murrow and his revisionist reporting.
Bottom line: The best thing Trump ever did was lay down the 3 tests for good government: 1. American interest, 2. American prosperity, 3. Constitutional adherence. Everything we’re up against today does not currently meet those standards. It was canny for him to state the problem in this way rather than name each one outright. It’s keeping the Fake State off balance.
Get rid of all the ‘Black Site’ real estate and just use Airbnb’s like everybody else these days. Then you don’t have to waste all that money when it’s not in use. Or, keep them, and when they’re not in use, Offer them as Airbnb’s to make some extra cash.
Or rent them out as Escape Room party sites.
either way it’s a win win.
Problem Solved!
you’re welcome
America would be safer if we fired everyone in the CIA and replaced them with people randomly chosen out of the phonebook.