Did you ever notice that CIA is pronounced "shha" (as in Marcia).
Coincidence?
There is an interesting article in the past week's New Yorker on the CIA's "Black Sites." These are interrogation/torture sites in other countries where it is deemed permissible to do what is not legal in the US and which may disregard the Geneva Convention. The article can be found here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mayer