Secret CIA prisons should not be closed: Rice

Sep 10, 2006, 18:58 GMT

Washington - The United States' network of secret overseas CIA prisons, to which US President George W Bush finally admitted earlier this week, should not be closed down, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.

President Bush and Rice and believed that American citizens would like to keep all means at their disposal to obtain information legally from terrorist suspects, she told America's CBS television.

The information gleaned helped make the US safer, she said.

Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US, it had become clear that information was the missing ingredient in preventing terrorist attacks, Rice said.

Finding out who exactly was planning attacks was like looking for a needle in a haystack and was unfeasible, she said. What was needed instead was information.

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