CIA flights likened to the work of gangsters
The United States was accused of “gangster tactics” yesterday, and European governments were accused of turning a blind eye to the “outsourcing of torture”, as a human rights watchdog concluded that the CIA conducted illegal anti-terror activities in Europe.
Full article here
My briefing on Senator Marty is here.
Senator Marty’s interim report is available in HTML here and can be downloaded as a PDF from here.
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Despite half-assed generic denials from the various European governments involved it looks like Senator Marty ‘has done his homework’. I can’t say that this story has huge coverage here in the land of the somewhat free. I can only imagine the sums of money that have changed hands throughout - unofficially of course.
That and the fact that the corporate media in the US are far more deferential, indeed supine, towards officialdom.
What’s interesting about this is that Rice, for once speaking truthfully, said when she was over here that much of this had been done with at least the connivance of European securuty services who conveniently looked the other way and that the governments involved should STFU. Unfortunately for her point of view and fortunately for those of us who know that governments acting like gangsters makes the situation worse not better the various prosecution services take a very different stance. In quite a few countries the prosecutors have launched investigations of the relevant officials with a view to hauling them into court and forcing them to account for their actions.
Dear God Yes!
Incidentally before I log off for the night to get some beauty sleep the collection is up to $5,755.98 - I’m chuffed.