Pro Publica report finds at least 20 CIA prisoners still missing

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Pro Publica report finds at least 20 CIA prisoners still missing

During the Bush administration, more than 100 suspected terrorists were believed to have been held in secret CIA prisons or shipped to other countries in secret where they were held and interrogated.

A general view taken on November 16, 2012 shows a cell in the former Saint-Joseph prison in Lyon. The old prison situated in the center of Lyon will become a building complex in a few months, an original initiative in France where the old prisons are generally destroyed

During the Bush administration, more than 100 suspected terrorists were believed to have been held in secret CIA prisons or shipped to other countries in secret where they were held and interrogated.

During the Bush administration, more than 100 suspected terrorists were believed to have been held in secret CIA prisons or shipped to other countries in secret where they were held and interrogated. Now a new report from the investigative news site Pro Publica finds that at least 20 of those prisoners have seemingly disappeared.

They're unaccounted for. We talk to one of the members of the investigative team, Pro Publica's Cora Currier.