WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate is on its way to requiring the Bush administration to reveal the details about where the CIA operates secret prisons and who is in them.
The new Senate measure, part of a bill authorizing intelligence spending, is separate from an amendment by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that is still being debated as part of a military spending bill.
The facilities, established after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, are believed to hold as many as 35 terror suspects, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is said to be the mastermind of the attacks.
The bill was sponsored by the two Senate Democrats from Massachusetts, Edward Kennedy and John Kerry, the New York Times reported. Another measure included in the bill, also introduced by Kennedy, would require the White House to provide classified intelligence documents on Iraq that have until now been withheld from Congress.
