The Council of Europe's investigation into whether the CIA has run secret prisons in Eastern Europe has turned up no evidence they ever existed. This, according to their recently released “interim report.”
That doesn’t mean the prisons didn't exist, or don’t exist, just that the 46-member council couldn’t locate them, probably because they couldn’t locate their hind-quarters with two hands.
They began this “investigation” in response to a Washington Post story a few months ago that claimed the CIA had detention centers for terrorism suspects in eight countries, some of them in Eastern Europe. So? This is a surprise? Well some folks don’t like the idea of secretly detaining suspected terrorists or even proven terrorists. Many of those people question the raison d’etre for the Global War on Terror. They believe it is not really necessary, or, in many instances, they just hate George Bush so thoroughly they seek to find transgressions for which to blame him.
The group Human Rights Watch said publicly that two of the countries with secret terrorist’s detention centers run by the US were Poland and Romania, whose intelligence services, in fact –since the collapse of communism- have been simpatico with the US and the UK.
The leader of the Council of Europe inquiry, a fellow named Richard Marty, took some heat from member countries for starting his investigation based primarily on rumor and media stories, whether well-informed or ill-informed.
Marty ended up making himself look foolish when his investigative results turned out to be mostly a mound of newspaper clippings, almost all of them reprints and re-writes of each other.
A British government spokesman attacked Marty's report by saying it was “clouded in myth” and “motivated by a desire to kick America” and was "as full of holes as Swiss cheese." The Swiss cheese comparison was apt. Richard Marty is a Swiss politician.
The kicker is that Mr. Marty charged that the American media - the major networks like CNN, newspapers like the Washington Post and the New York Times, know a great deal about the so-called “secret prisons” but have not made the information public because they are afraid of the Bush Administration.
No wonder people make fun of Richard Marty.
The New York Times and the Washington Post are as likely in bed with the Republican Administration as Boy George is Jay Lo’s newest lover.
On the subject of the New York Times, and in the same vein of sick humor, did you see the Times “Style Section” piece on the “Axis of Evo” (my phrase, not theirs) the buffoonish Evo Morales, the coca farmer who is now the president of Bolivia.
As you know, Evo is an avid left-winger who has struck a bond with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and has already quietly invited agents of the DGI - Cuban intelligence –into his government.
The shared “bond” with Castro and Chavez is a fervent hatred of the United States.
So the New York Times writes a kind of homo-erotic story about Evo. The male Times reporter describes Morales as a “strapping Aymara Indian with a Roman nose, an infectious smile and a shock of long black hair” and then speculates as to whether Evo will “catch on as a durable fashion influence” because of his striped sweaters - a question surely on the minds of many Americans, at least those who can tell an “Aymara Indian” from an ordinary Bolivian. This is our “newspaper of record”?
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Posted by: AnferTuto | July 28, 2007 at 12:39 AM