The U.S. Senate wants U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte to give secret testimony to two Congressional panels on the so-called "black sites" used to hold some terror suspects.

An excerpt from the BBC story:

The Senate also voted to bar terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay camp from taking legal action in the US courts.

However, the provision would need to go through several more steps before becoming law.

'In the dark'

Senator John Kerry proposed the call for a report.

"I don't have any doubt in the American public's determination to win the war on terror," the former presidential challenger said.

"But I do know that any administration that tries to keep Congress in the dark damages the cause for which we are all fighting."

The EU is also examining reports about the secret jails. Robert Fisk of the Independent told Democracy Now! the prisons are in Poland and Romania (I've posted on this).