EU Demands Answers
by TChris
The European Union, peeved to learn that some European countries (wittingly or otherwise) may be hosting secret prisons that warehouse detainees who have been captured or kidnapped by the Bush administration, has asked the president to reveal information about those prisons. The State Department has promised to respond to the best of its ability, a sure sign that it won’t provide meaningful answers.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack would not answer questions about whether the sites exist or whether the CIA used European airports and airspace to transport suspects. He also would not say whether the U.S. response to the Europeans will definitively answer those questions, nor whether the U.S. response will be made public.
The questions may be posed directly to Condoleezza Rice as she jets aroud Europe next week, “including a stop in Romania, which is one of the nations identified by Human Rights Watch as a likely site of a secret detention camp.”
"I think as Dr. Rice goes round European capitals, she may find a number of embarrassing questions," said Sir Menzies Campbell, foreign affairs spokesman for Britain's rival Liberal Democrat party. … "If, in fact, people are being moved from a jurisdiction where torture is illegal to a jurisdiction where torture is permissible, that seems to me to be wholly contrary to international law," Campbell added. "If we are allowing facilities for aircraft carrying out these actions, we are at the very least facilitating and we may even be complicit in it."
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