Judiciary Committee chairman requests special counsel to investigate CIA rendition

Source: Raw Story

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Foreign Affairs Chairman of the International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight Subcommittee, Bill Delahunt (D-MA), today called on Attorney General Michael Mukasey to appoint a special counsel to investigate the rendition of a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, to Syria.

Returning home to Canada in September 2002, Mr. Arar was detained at JFK airport in New York based on false intelligence suggesting ties to terrorist activity. Despite finding that he would likely be subject to torture, Mr. Arar was then removed to Syria at the direction of the Commissioner of the INS and the Office of the Deputy Attorney General. Mr. Arar was subsequently imprisoned for nearly a year and tortured.

In June, the former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Clark Ervin testified before a joint Judiciary and Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing that he believed that U.S. officials intended to render Mr. Arar to Syria, rather than allowing him to continue on to Canada, because of the likelihood that he would be tortured in Syria.

Upon Mr. Arar's return to Canada in 2003, the Canadian government conducted an exhaustive investigation concluding that no evidence linked Mr. Arar to terrorist groups or suggested a security threat and awarded him nearly $10 million in damages. The DHS Office of the Inspector General conducted its own four-year investigation into the matter, yet its investigators lacked subpoena authority and were frequently stymied by numerous privilege claims.



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"Mr. Arar's rendition to Syria, with the knowledge he would be subject to torture, demands a thorough investigation into the conduct of the Department of Justice and U.S. immigration officials," said Conyers. "Given the involvement of high-ranking administration officials in this matter, and the stonewalling encountered in the DHS Inspector General's investigation, the appointment of a special counsel is clearly necessary."

That'll scare him!

:crazy:

he's dead to me.

Wire tapping
9/11
Oil prices
Bush Reasons for invading Iraq
Bush Reasons for invading Iran
Bribery in the House
Bribery in the Senate
Don Seigleman Case
Plame Case
etc
etc
etc

U.S. Attorney firings scandal
Office of Special Counsel scandal
etc
etc

Multiple Military contract scandals
WMD lies
Siebel Edmonds allegations
Ohio 04
FLA 00
BFEE
Cross Country nukes
Enron/Lay/Bush/California profiteering & accounting
Bin Laden family air travel post 9/11
Disaster relief only to states with Republican governors
(sorry Katrina sufferers)
Post Katrina land deal(sorry again)
Iraq oil deals
Status of Forces agreement in Iraq
Gimto/Rendition
Only torture if organ failure
Coup attempt in Venezuela
Cheney's secret Energy policy meetings

etc

Otherwise, STFU and go home. Your bloviating is wasting our hard-earned tax dollars.

A Special Counsel? The treasury has been raided and there is blood all over the White House. What 'hard earned dollars' do you think is left?