US outsourced torture, European investigator says from Planck's Constant

The United States flew detainees to countries where they would be tortured and European governments probably knew about it, the head of a European human rights investigation said on Tuesday.

But Swiss senator Dick Marty said in a preliminary report for the Council of Europe human rights watchdog that he had found no irrefutable evidence to confirm allegations that the CIA operated secret detention centers in Europe ¹.

News of the CIA transporting more than 100 terror suspects to other countries where they faced torture or ill treatment was met with protests in the US.

Newark, NJ: Pickets were yelling, passing cars honked and Union Organizers from the Longshoreman's Local 1189 marched in front of the Federal Building on Broad Street to protest the outsourcing of what the Union considers their jobs. The demonstration of about 100 stevedores, loansharks, strike-goons and their children caused quite a stir in the normally quiet area where immigrants come to get naturalized, tax cheats get to meet their auditors, and ex-cons lie to their parole officers. But that's what Local Boss Tony Bagadonuts wants: noise and attention.

Vinnie Notfuhnuthin agrees. "They're taking away our jobs. We can break legs wit da best of them Egyptians and dotheads. I got kids to feed, union dues to pay, local politicians to grease" (this is New Jersey, afterall). "Hey, Jimmy," he yells to a door posing as a human being, "tell him how you made that store manager give up the safe combo. We're good at that shit".

Andrea Quarantillo, District Director, told the crowd that the personnel in this building had nothing to do with the CIA or outsourcing of jobs.

"We don't believe that crap!" someone yelled from among the pickets. Certainly it seems our government is lying to us again.

[A hint for my Muslim readers who believe everything they read that is negative about the US - this is satire]

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CBS News, Swiss Investigator Says CIA Let Other Countries Do Its Dirty Work
The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe said Tuesday that evidence pointed to the existence of a system of "outsourcing" of torture by the United States, and said it was highly likely that European governments knew of it.
But Swiss senator Dick Marty said that there was no formal proof so far of the existence of clandestine detention centers in Romania or Poland as alleged by the New York-based Human Rights Watch.

"There is a great deal of coherent, convergent evidence pointing to the existence of a system of "relocation" or "outsourcing" of torture," Marty said in a report presented to the Council of Europe, the human rights watchdog on whose behalf he is investigating.