A German citizen who claimed he was kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured by the CIA lost his appeal on Tuesday when the Supreme Court refused to review a decision dismissing the case because it would expose state secrets.
Oh. State secrets like the United States kidnapped him, tortured him, and then, ooopsie, let him go. Um. Other countries know all about this anyway and the man has TALKED about what happened. Here's the court brief of El-Masri vs Tenet.
Kind of puts the lie to what Condi Rice waffled about a few years ago regarding this case.
when and if mistakes are made, we work very hard to rectify them."
Yeah. By saying everything the Bush administration does is secret secret and trying to prevent its actions from seeing the light of day. After all, what's accountability