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AP Exclusive: Inside Romania's secret CIA prison
By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | AP 
WASHINGTON (AP) — In northern Bucharest, in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the heart of the capital city, is a secret the Romanian government has long tried to protect.
For years, the CIA used a government building — codenamed "Bright Light" — as a makeshift prison for its most valuable detainees. There it held al-Qaida operatives Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and others in a basement prison before they were ultimately transferred to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2006, according to former U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the location and inner workings of the prison.
The existence of a CIA prison in Romania has been widely reported, but its location has never been made public. The Associated Press and German public television ARD located the former prison and learned details of the facility where harsh interrogation tactics were used. ARD's program on the CIA prison is set to air Thursday.
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I didn't see any links for online videos in the AP article, so did a Web search and found the following AP video report of 2:35 duration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AADf-8h04ng
People who do a Google for, "Inside Romania's Secret CIA Prison", will get other links and some are for roughly 5-minute video clips. Those aren't working for me while using Firefox, but trying with Opera worked and the 5-minute clips are for multiple stories, whereas the above video clip is solely about this CIA secret prison in Romania.
And if you don't view the video report, then you won't miss anything important, imo. It's only 2:35 though.