Bocephus Jones II
02-22-2008, 06:34 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022100822.html?hpid=moreheadlines
So many lies...who's gonna believe us when we actually tell the truth? What the hell is "rendition" anyway? Never heard the term.
CIA Director Michael V. Hayden (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Michael+Hayden?tid=informline) issued a statement saying that information supplied to Bri
tain "in good faith" had "turned out to be wrong."
"That we found this mistake ourselves, and that we brought it to the attention of the British Government (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Parliament+of+the+United+Kingdom?tid=informline), in no way changes or excuses the reality that we were in the wrong," he said.
Hayden said neither terror suspect was a part of the CIA's "high-value terrorist interrogation program."
"These were rendition operations, nothing more," Hayden said. "There has been speculation in the press over the years that CIA had a holding facility on Diego Garcia. That is false. There have also been allegations that we transport detainees for the purpose of torture. That, too, is false."
Miliband said his staff would compile a list of flights that human rights groups suspect were used for rendition, then forward it to officials in Washington "seeking their specific assurance that none of these flights were used" for rendition.
Opposition politicians in Britain said the case undermined the credibility of the Blair and Brown governments, as well as the United States. Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, called the incident "a gross embarrassment" for the British government.
Andrew Tyrie, a Conservative Party politician who leads the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition, said in a statement that the matter "will leave the British public unwilling to trust other assurances we have received from the U.S."
So many lies...who's gonna believe us when we actually tell the truth? What the hell is "rendition" anyway? Never heard the term.
CIA Director Michael V. Hayden (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Michael+Hayden?tid=informline) issued a statement saying that information supplied to Bri
tain "in good faith" had "turned out to be wrong."
"That we found this mistake ourselves, and that we brought it to the attention of the British Government (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Parliament+of+the+United+Kingdom?tid=informline), in no way changes or excuses the reality that we were in the wrong," he said.
Hayden said neither terror suspect was a part of the CIA's "high-value terrorist interrogation program."
"These were rendition operations, nothing more," Hayden said. "There has been speculation in the press over the years that CIA had a holding facility on Diego Garcia. That is false. There have also been allegations that we transport detainees for the purpose of torture. That, too, is false."
Miliband said his staff would compile a list of flights that human rights groups suspect were used for rendition, then forward it to officials in Washington "seeking their specific assurance that none of these flights were used" for rendition.
Opposition politicians in Britain said the case undermined the credibility of the Blair and Brown governments, as well as the United States. Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, called the incident "a gross embarrassment" for the British government.
Andrew Tyrie, a Conservative Party politician who leads the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition, said in a statement that the matter "will leave the British public unwilling to trust other assurances we have received from the U.S."