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Devastating Council of Europe report on CIA involvement with kidnapping and torture
by Nat Hentoff
June 25th, 2006 10:46 PM

After 9-11 the gloves come off.
Cofer Black, director, CIA Counterterrorism Center, 1999–2002

If this nation is to remain true to the ideals symbolized by the flag, [we] must not wield the tools of tyrants even to resist an assault by the forces of tyranny. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 2004

Three years ago, a CIA kidnapping ring was in Italy to snatch a radical imam, Hussan Mustafa Nasr, from a street in Milan. Flown on a CIA plane to his native Egypt, Nasr was held in a dungeon where he was given electric shock treatments, hung upside down, and tortured in various positions. Released and then rearrested, Nasr disappeared in the bowels of the Egyptian prison system.