Friday, August 1, 2008

Diego Garcia again surfaces as one of our torture cites...

By Adam Zagorin

TIME

July 31, 2008

Almost two years have passed since President George W. Bush publicly acknowledged the existence of a CIA program in which agency-leased aircraft fly terror suspects between secret prisons and interrogation sites around the world. "This program has helped us to take potential mass murderers off the streets before they have a chance to kill," the President said on Sept. 6, 2006. Since that admission, the White House has declined to elaborate or comment further on the program's specifics, although multiple reports have surfaced regarding the existence of secret facilities in Poland and Romania.

According to a former senior American official, it appears another locale can be added to the international roster of interrogation sites * one both more obscure and potentially more controversial than the alleged sites in Poland and Romania. The source tells TIME that, in 2002 and possibly 2003, the U.S. imprisoned and interrogated one or more terrorist suspects on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean controlled by the United Kingdom.

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I guess the big question here is whether or not Tony Blair gave his fellow war criminal Bush permission... I will not be surprised when that part of the story surfaces.


FROM ROGER FITCH AND OUR FRIENDS DOWN UNDER

Roger Fitch Esq • July 26, 2008

Our Man in Washington

A non-war crimes “war crimes” case gets underway before legally dubious military commission … Plenty of Kafkaesque moments for 9/11 accused … US extracts “intelligence” with Chinese style “enhanced techniques” from Korean war era

“The History of the present King … is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny …

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power … giving his assent to Acts of pretended Legislation … transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.

Declaration of Independence (1776)

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