'Wall of silence' surrounds CIA secret prisons issue

European governments have built “a wall of silence” around accusations that they let the CIA abduct their residents and run clandestine prisons on their territory, a European investigator said today.

Swiss Senator Dick Marty charged in a report earlier this month that the CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania – with the knowledge of several local politicians – after the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States to interrogate key terror suspects.