As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stilettoed her way across Europe last week answering tough questions about Washington's treatment of prisoners in the "global war on terror," 2005 may be remembered as the year "torture" and "rendition" became part of the everyday vocabulary.
The latest iteration of these issues arose from the Washington Post's recent disclosure that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was using its fleet of secret aircraft to render high-value terror suspects to secret prisons it is reportedly operating in former Soviet bloc states in Eastern Europe. |