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walters home applianceDecember 11, 2005
...Europe Expected to Deny CIA Prisons?
Image from the Washington Post, of detainees at the Afghanistan prison known as "the Pit".
So, it seemed a pretty clear cut case when US Secretary of State Condaleezza Rice was going to deny that the CIA was shipping prisoners to secret locations (in eastern Europe, just to add that extra touch of sinister) and Europe was upset because the CIA planes were using their airports to do it.
However, the European Union had a secret deal with the CIA, the Telegraph, a British Newspaper reports today. The article describes an agreement in 2003 to allow the US to use "transport facilities" (i.e. airports) to transport "criminals" (i.e. terrorists). Tony Blair used this language to deny that he knew anything about a deal involving airports. The agreement was discussed confidentially, and then deleted from the record before its publishing. No wonder the US administration seemed so unworried by the European dissent; Europe already signed off on such actions.
Posted by Elizabeth Tangora at December 11, 2005 02:50 PM