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By Guy Dinmore
Financial Times
Wednesday 20 September 2006
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The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention
centre at Guantánamo this month in part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and
run the secret facilities, according to former CIA officials and people close to the programme.
The former officials said the CIA interrogators' refusal was a factor in forcing the Bush administration to act earlier
than it might have wished.
When Mr Bush announced the suspension of the secret prison programme in a speech before the fifth anniversary of the
September 11 terror attacks, some analysts thought he was trying to gain political momentum before the November midterm
congressional elections.
The administration publicly explained its decision in light of the legal uncertainty surrounding permissible
interrogation techniques following the June Supreme Court ruling that all terrorist suspects in detention were entitled
to protection under Common Article Three of the Geneva Conventions.
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