Monitor the CIA, says watchdog

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/monitor-the-cia-says-watchdog/2006/09/08/1157222329209.html

THE head of Europe's human rights watchdog has called for monitoring of CIA agents operating in Britain and other European countries, following President George Bush's admission that the US had detained terrorist suspects in secret prisons.

Terry Davis, secretary-general of the Council of Europe, said CIA agents operating in Europe should be subject to the same rules as British agents working for the British intelligence services.

"There is a need to deal with the conduct of allied foreign security services agents active on the territory of a council member state," Mr Davis said. "In the UK, there is parliamentary scrutiny of the intelligence services but there is no parliamentary scrutiny of friendly foreign services. The UK should be in the lead on this issue." As part of this process, diplomatic immunity should be reviewed. "Immunity should not mean impunity," he said.

[54anickel]

1. Man I hope his confession for domestic political gain bites him in the

ass big time, though if there are 14 countries that colluded with the US I don't hold out much hope. :-(

bit more from your article:

The former British Labour MP was scathing about President Bush. "Why does the US need to keep people in secret prisons? I thought that was settled by Magna Carta. But King John is alive and well and running the USA. There is a smoking gun. We know where it is — it is in the hands of George Bush. His fingerprints are on the gun."

Mr Davis' remarks came as the man leading the Council of Europe's investigation into the secret CIA prisons dismissed Mr Bush's admission as "just one piece of the truth". In an attempt to step up pressure on the US and European governments to come clean on the prisons, the Swiss senator Dick Marty said: "There is more, much more, to be revealed."

[elehhhhna]

6. Q: Who is held in our gulags? A: Anybody they fukkin want.

[gratuitous]

2. Diplomatic immunity should not mean impunity

Absolutely spot-on. If we can ever get Congress off its dead-and-dying ass to conduct a little oversight, the Bush administration's lawlessness will be so tightly circumscribed they'll be reduced to falsely imprisoning and torturing each other.

[The Stranger]

3. Start with the Poodle -- he is virtually a U.S. agent.

[wicket]

5. You got that right!

:kick:

[AX10]

4. I agree.