Editing Diego Garcia (section)

===Prison site allegations===
In 2015, U.S. Secretary of State [[Colin Powell]]'s former chief of staff, [[Lawrence Wilkerson]], said Diego Garcia was used by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] for "nefarious activities". He said that he had heard from three US intelligence sources that Diego Garcia was used as "a transit site where people were temporarily housed, let us say, and interrogated from time to time" and, "What I heard was more along the lines of using it as a transit location when perhaps other places were full or other places were deemed too dangerous or insecure, or unavailable at the moment".<ref name="guardian-20150130">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/30/cia-interrogation-diego-garcia-lawrence-wilkerson |title=CIA interrogated suspects on Diego Garcia, says Colin Powell aide |first=Ian |last=Cobain |newspaper=The Guardian |date=30 January 2015 |access-date=27 February 2015 |archive-date=27 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227184955/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/30/cia-interrogation-diego-garcia-lawrence-wilkerson |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="telegraph-20150130">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11380992/Terror-suspects-were-interrogated-on-Diego-Garcia-US-official-admits.html |title=Terror suspects were interrogated on Diego Garcia, US official admits |agency=Press Association |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date=30 January 2015 |access-date=27 February 2015 |archive-date=28 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150228020659/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11380992/Terror-suspects-were-interrogated-on-Diego-Garcia-US-official-admits.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 2004, the British [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs|Foreign Secretary]] [[Jack Straw]] stated that United States authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there.<ref>{{Cite journal | title=Written Answers to Questions 21 June 2004 | journal=Hansard House of Commons Daily Debates | volume=422 | issue=part 605 | url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/vo040621/text/40621w13.htm#40621w13.html_wqn9 | access-date=21 February 2008 | archive-date=13 May 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513034414/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/vo040621/text/40621w13.htm#40621w13.html_wqn9 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Diego Garcia was first rumoured to have been one of the locations of the [[CIA]]'s [[black sites]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hurst |first=Lynda |date=2 July 2005 |title=Island paradise or torture chamber? |url= |newspaper=[[The Toronto Star]]}}</ref> [[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]] is one of the "[[high-value detainees]]" suspected to have been held in Diego Garcia.<ref>{{cite news |last=Selsky |first=Andrew |date=16 March 2006 |title=Detainee transcripts reveal more questions |url= |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> In October 2007, the [[Foreign Affairs Select Committee]] of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by retired U.S. Army general [[Barry McCaffrey]].<ref name=guardian>{{Cite news| first1=Ian |last1=Cobain |author2=Richard Norton-Taylor | url=https://www.theguardian.com/usa/story/0,,2194649,00.html | title=Claims of secret CIA jail for terror suspects on British island to be investigated | work=The Guardian | date=19 October 2007 | access-date=21 October 2007 | location=London}}</ref> On 31 July 2008, an unnamed former White House official alleged that the United States had imprisoned and interrogated at least one suspect on Diego Garcia during 2002 and possibly 2003.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1828469,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080805004921/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1828469,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=5 August 2008 | magazine=Time | title=Source: US Used UK Isle for Interrogations | date=31 July 2008 | access-date=1 May 2010 | first=Adam | last=Zagorin}}</ref>

[[Manfred Nowak]], one of five [[United Nations special rapporteur]]s on [[torture]], said that credible evidence exists supporting allegations that ships serving as black sites have used Diego Garcia as a base.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/19/alqaida.usa |title=Claims of secret CIA jail for terror suspects on British island to be investigated |first1=Ian |last1=Cobain |author2=Richard Norton-Taylor |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=19 October 2007}}</ref> The human rights group [[Reprieve (organisation)|Reprieve]] alleged that United States-operated ships moored outside the [[territorial waters]] of Diego Garcia were used to incarcerate and torture detainees.<ref>{{Cite news| first=Jamie|last= Doward | title=British island 'used by US for rendition' | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/02/ciarendition.unitednations | work=The Observer | date=2 March 2008 | access-date=27 March 2008 | location=London}}</ref>