Prisoners Transfer Done in a Rush to Help Rice Save Face (ABC)

Ross also said that the CIA claimed to him that all prisoners in those two prisons had been transfered out of Europe to Africa before Rice actually arrived in Europe. It sounded like the transfer was done in a rush to help Rice save face. That is a token of how much traction this issue has in Europe, and how fearful the Bush administration is.

Here is a link to a story by Brian Ross and Richard Esposito posted on the Nightline page at ABC. It covers much of the same material, though it is not a transcript of the program:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/6/1546/06966


Two CIA secret prisons were operating in Eastern Europe until last month when they were shut down following Human Rights Watch reports of their existence in Poland and Romania.

Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European soil before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived there today. The officers say 11 top al Qaeda suspects have now been moved to a new CIA facility in the North African desert.

CIA officials asked ABC News not the name the specific countries where the prisons were located, citing security concerns.

The CIA declines to comment, but current and former intelligence officials tell ABC News that 11 top al Qaeda figures were all held at one point on a former Soviet air base in one Eastern European country. Several of them were later moved to a second Eastern European country.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1375123

And no I don't only mean her looks, her whole being is ugly and evil.

AS if moving these prisoners to Africa somehow solves the problem.

Thanks for posting this, kpete

K&R

Rice then turned her fire directly on Europe. She stressed that European countries often benefited from, and assisted in, US intelligence-gathering, declaring, “Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. That cooperation is a two-way street.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/dec2005/rice-d06.shtml

Makes the point that the outrage of European governments is two-faced.

This was discussed by Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights yesterday on Democracy Now!

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/05/1455239