CIA or the SS?
Dana Priest has an excellent piece in Sunday’s WP that clearly demonstrates the requirement to contain The USA Patriot Act enacted shortly after 9/11.
In "Anatomy of a CIA Mistake", Khaled Masri is cited as an example of the CIA capturing individuals based on mere speculation.
Masri was held for five months largely because the head of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center’s al Qaeda unit "believed he was someone else," one former CIA official said. "She didn’t really know. She just had a hunch."
Another example was an individual detained and renditioned simply because his name was similar to another person’s name on a terrorist suspect list.
In each case, according to allegations by detainees, they were abused and exposed to intolerable conditions.
There is the obvious question of what has happened to the Rule of Law; adherence to the Constitution of the United States. And, then there is this continuing, resounding question – if these acts are legal, why are the detainees always taken to other countries where US law is not applicable?
More fodder for the international community, in the words of Vice President Dick Cheney, to accuse the US of "reprehensible" acts and our enemies to apply equivalent treatment to troops, CIA operatives, diplomatic officials, and the innocent American walking down any street of any country.
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