Many Americans tend to look down our noses at younger democracies like Poland.\u00a0 But news reports this week indicate that, in at least some ways, Warsaw is ahead of us.<\/p>\n
Polish newspapers report that the former head of Poland\u2019s intelligence service has been charged with aiding the Central Intelligence Agency in setting up a secret prison to detain suspected members of Al Qaeda.\u00a0\u00a0 The Gazeta Wyborcza <\/em>said that Zbigniew Siemiatkowski faces charges of violating international law by \u201cunlawfully depriving prisoners of their liberty,\u201d in connection with the secret C.I.A. prison where Qaeda suspects were subjected to brutal interrogation methods.<\/p>\n As the New York Times has pointed out, when President Obama took office in 2009, he said he wanted to \u201clook forward, as opposed to looking backward\u201d and rejected calls for a broad investigation of C.I.A. interrogations and other Bush administration counterterrorism programs. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many Americans tend to look down our noses at younger democracies like Poland.\u00a0 But news reports this week indicate that, in at least some ways, Warsaw is ahead of us. Polish newspapers report that the former head of Poland\u2019s intelligence … Continue reading