Why is US Flying Terror Suspects to Secret Camps-Something to Hide?

[kpete]

Complicity with torture

Why is the US flying terror suspects to secret camps if it has nothing to hide? We must halt our collusion

Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday December 8, 2005
The Guardian


Mention the word "torture" and ministers and their officials cannot condemn it quickly enough. They say they abhor it wherever it takes place. It is not quite as simple as that, as the growing dispute over CIA "torture flights" - what the Americans call "extraordinary rendition" - has vividly demonstrated this week. And today the law lords enter the fray with a ruling on whether statements extracted abroad under torture can be admissible as evidence in British courts. The law lords are responding to last year's appeal court judgment that British courts could use evidence extracted under torture as long as British agents neither "procured nor connived at" the torture at the time.


This is what is worrying Whitehall, faced with evidence that more than 200 CIA flights have landed at British airports, with the suggestion that terrorist suspects have been on board on the way to secret interrogation camps in eastern Europe, Egypt, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Middle East - where there are strong grounds for believing they would be tortured.

If the government allowed such flights knowing they were used by the CIA to "render" detainees, then they could be held to be complicit in practices that are in breach of Britain's international and domestic legal obligations. Evasive answers from ministers to a series of specific parliamentary questions have increased the suspicion that ministers have something to hide or at the very least have turned a blind eye to acts by US agents that it knows might well be unlawful.

An obvious question is: why has the US transported suspects to secret camps around the world, and at a time when Guantánamo Bay is coming under increasing scrutiny, if it has nothing to hide?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1661592,00.html

[izzie]

1. Easy because they know they are doing some thing wrong

Recall doing that to your Mother?

[liveoaktx]

2. VIDEO of El-Masri-Rendition

Rice/German Chancellor comments and ACLU lawwuit

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. It's called "Nacht und Nebel" and started with.................

the Nazi's. It translates into Night and Fog.

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Natzweiler/History/NightAndFog.html