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U.S. Acknowledges Existence of Secret CIA Prisons

President Bush has announced that more than a dozen high-value terrorism suspects have been transferred to the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The president says the men had been held and interrogated at secret CIA prisons around the world.

It's the first time the Bush administration has acknowledged such prisons exist.

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