Reply to post: Re: Cut and Dried

Re: Cut and Dried

"The U.S. does not hold innocent people hostage"

You must have missed Guantanamo Bay on the news. Remind me what percentage of those held were ever convicted of any crime again?

Or the case of Khalid El Masri, or Marwan Jabour or the dozens that we know of that were subjected to extraordinary rendition?

At least 39 detainees who were once held by the CIA in secret detention remain "disappeared," according to Off the Record, a report jointly published June 7, 2007 by six leading human rights groups, including Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and Human Rights Watch. Spokesmen say that their report:

"... reveals the extent to which the United States has illegally used “proxy detention” to empty its secret sites and demonstrates that far from targeting the “worst of the worst,” the system sweeps up low-level detainees and even involves the detention of the wives and children of the “disappeared,” in violation of their human rights. 'Off the Record' also documents allegations concerning the treatment of detainees while in secret detention, including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."