The US is hampering Poland’s investigation into the secret CIA prison by snubbing repeated requests for vital documents, including the Senate report detailing CIA prison locations and practices, a Polish prosecutor said on Saturday.
Published in December, the summary of the report by the US Senate’s Intelligence Committee was redacted and did not mention Poland by name, but other facts in it pointed to the country and a secret CIA prison there from 2002-2003, where terror suspects were submitted to harsh treatment.
Piotr Kosmaty, spokesman for the Appeals Prosecutor’s Office in Krakow that is doing the investigation, said that Poland immediately asked the US justice authorities for a full version of the document, but has had no response.
Previous requests for documents and questioning of the alleged victims, now held in Guantanamo, were ignored. At one point the US authorities said that providing materials would be against US national interests, he said.