EU Investigates CIA 'black sites'

As the Financial Times reports, Brussels has launched an investigation into whether EU member or accession countries in Eastern Europe were the locations of secret CIA prisons, called 'black sites'. Human Rights Watch claims to have information that the 'black sites' in Eastern Europe are in Romania and north-eastern Poland. If this claim is substantiated, it could casuse significant problems for Poland's desire to join the Eurozone (and remain in the EU) and could significantly damage Romania's hopes of EU accession in 2007 or 2008. Other countries mentioned in the Washington Post story, Afghanistan and Thailand, claim that either the sites never existed or have since been closed.