Why does America need Secret Prisons?

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They do claim that several plots have been foiled. The administration's message is generally underreported these days as nobody believes them.

It's analogous to Clinton bombing Sudan and everyone assuming it was wag-the-dog. Nobody believed him. Nobody cared. No attention was paid. Being anti Al-Q was not on the public's radar then.

I have said all along that this administration's inability to communicate is part of its leadership failure. Heaven help us if it becomes important for us to hear what they say.

It's not 14 plots, but 14 prisoners that are claimed to have been broken for useful information. It could be 14 pieces of information surrounding one plot. We don't know. We don't get to know. And that's how it has to be.