Unlike the non—outing of a non—covert agent Valerie Plame, which Bob Woodward says an informal CIA assessment determined had no consequences, the leak of the holding of Al Qaeda prisoners on former Eastern bloc countries is having real consequences: EASTERN European countries were yesterday scrambling to distance themselves from the CIA as officials in Washington searched for the source of an embarrassing leak that exposed a programme of secret jails for terrorist detainees.  Claims that the CIA has been hiding prominent Al—Qaeda members at a so—called 'black site' facility in eastern Europe have prompted angry denials from Romania, Poland and Albania. As details emerged yesterday of CIA flights to remote military airfields in northeast Poland and southeast Romania, George W Bush's administration ordered an internal inquiry into how classified data was leaked to The Washington Post and Human Rights Watch, a New York—based group. Senior...(Read Full Post)